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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2025

Towards NetZero for hospital operating theatres.

Ian Eames, Anne Symons, Duncan Wilson, Yaman Rawas Kalaji, Lyndsay Muirhead, Jonathan Groome

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ian EamesDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1300-5738
Anne SymonsBartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, London, UK.
Duncan WilsonCentre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, UK.
Yaman Rawas KalajiCentre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6351-279X
Lyndsay MuirheadUniversity College Hospital, London, UK.
Jonathan GroomeDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, UK.

Funding

Connecting for change (UCLPartners Ltd)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hospital operating theatre suites are a particularly resource- and energy-intensive component of the health sector. Reducing their carbon footprint presents a significant challenge due to the necessity of maintaining patient safety. In this paper, we apply a multidisciplinary methodology to investigate and assess various strategies aimed at reducing the carbon footprint in hospital theatres. The strategies evaluated include (i) the duration of theatre ventilation operation, (ii) the efficiency of the ventilation strategy, and (iii) heat recovery systems and technologies. These approaches are assessed using a combination of theatre space monitoring (via building management systems), computational air-flow modelling and mathematical models. We develop a robust methodology that applies these modelling techniques to general hospital suites, enabling the estimation of reductions in CO

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Carbon FootprintModels, TheoreticalOperating RoomsVentilationCarbon DioxideHumansCarbon Dioxideinfection controlNetZerooperating theatresustainability

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PMID40925553
PMCPMC12419882

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