It's Time for Hospital Workers to Identify and Eliminate Roadblocks to Reprocessing!

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Features| June 2023 It's Time for Hospital Workers to Identify and Eliminate Roadblocks to Reprocessing! Daniel Vukelich, JD Daniel Vukelich, JD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor June 2023, Vol. 87, 20. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000938816.88765.15 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Daniel Vukelich; It's Time for Hospital Workers to Identify and Eliminate Roadblocks to Reprocessing!. ASA Monitor 2023; 87:20 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000938816.88765.15 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: carbon, climate, climate change, greenhouse gases, health personnel, medical devices, united states food and drug administration, economics, health care sector, health care systems The February 2023 report issued by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that if human-caused global warming isn't slowed to a couple tenths of a degree, deadly heat, drought, fires, and floods could impact the planet in “potentially irreversible” ways. Putting off cuts in mitigating carbon emissions, the report warns, “will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all” (asamonitor.pub/43pSeEC). Doing nothing is not an option. The impact has already begun, and it's measurable. In 2020, a team of researchers led by Northeastern University's Matthew Eckelman looked solely at the impact of hospitals and health services on climate change. Our hospitals, the cornerstone of community health, are a major emitter of greenhouse gases. Climate change derived solely from greenhouse gas emissions caused by hospitals results in Americans losing approximately 388,000 “daily adjusted life years,” or years... You do not currently have access to this content.