ArticleAnnals of intensive care2025
Which carbon footprint for my ICU? Benchmark, hot spots and perspectives.
Article in Annals of intensive care, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- From carbon cost to climate care: Greening our intensive care units.World journal of critical care medicine · 2026Review
- Carbon footprint associated with neonatal intensive care unit admission of very preterm infants: A retrospective pilot study applying life cycle assessment.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Observational
- Optimizing β-lactam antibiotics with the highest concentration-for continuous infusion reduce carbon footprint in intensive care.Critical care (London, England) · 2026Article
- Sustainable continuous renal replacement therapy: The influence of blood flow rates, effluent dose, autoeffluent, and citrate anticoagulation on carbon dioxide emissions.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2026Article
- It is achievable to decrease resource consumption in the ICU: a pre/post eco-audit.Intensive care medicine · 2026Article
- Green transplant: A scoping review of sustainability challenges and opportunities in transplantation.World journal of transplantation · 2026Review
- Applying Abstract Text Mining as a Complement to PRISMA in Reviewing the Scope of Healthcare's Circular Economy Comment on "A Review of the Applicability of Current Green Practices in Healthcare Facilities".International journal of health policy and management · 2026Article
- Using gloves wisely: rethinking glove use for health, safety, and environmental sustainability.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2026Article
- When concentration matters: higher concentration for lower greenhouse gas emission.Intensive care medicine · 2025Article
- Volatile sedation in critically ill adults undergoing mechanical ventilation: not all sedatives are equivalent, in sustainability!Critical care (London, England) · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe purpose of this study was to identify the main greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting activities or products among the medical devices (MD) and medicines used in a polyvalent Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
methodsA pragmatic eco-audit was conducted in a 21-beds polyvalent ICU, in Saint-Brieuc, Bretagne, France. It consisted of estimating GHG emissions of products or activities, considering process-based life cycle analysis (LCA), economic input-output analysis (EIO) and hybrid-LCA. Results were expressed as Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO
resultsWith remaining uncertainty, GHG emissions were estimated at 61.1 kgCO
conclusionUpcoming studies focusing on actions on these particular hot spots would be of interest in order to significantly decrease GHG emissions but also to increase resilience of critical care.
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