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High carbon footprint of cataract surgery raises awareness of need for more sustainable practices in operating rooms
Health care procedures are a large contributor to carbon emissions throughout the world. Presently, surgeons and health care organizations are analyzing the effects of carbon emissions from cataract surgeries and how to decrease the carbon footprint of these procedures.In 2013, researchers from the United Kingdom published a benchmark component analysis study on the carbon emissions per cataract surgery. Daniel S. Morris, FRCSEd(Ophth), a consultant ophthalmologist at the University Hospital of Wales, U.K., and lead author of the study, noted one cataract surgery had a carbon footprint of 181.1 kg carbon (Read more...)