Erschienen in:
19.12.2023 | What's New in Intensive Care
Attributable climate emissions: an important public- and patient-centered outcome for intensive care trials
verfasst von:
Srinivas Murthy, Matthieu Bernat, Anders Perner
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2024
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Excerpt
The climate crisis is a major public health issue [
1]. For the intensive care community, it is manifested by increasing burdens of cardiorespiratory diseases, altered infectious disease epidemiology, increasing heat emergencies, and many other changes to day-to-day practice. Intensive care itself is also one of the most resource- and carbon-intensive fields of healthcare, contributing to the increasing crisis. Each day of intensive care unit (ICU) admission is estimated to be associated with an average of 9 kg of CO
2 emissions, the equivalent of driving approximately 40 km in a gas-powered car [
2]. Thus, we have a direct responsibility in thinking about our larger impact, and ways in which we can do better [
3]. …