BARCELONA, Spain — Adopting specific treatment regimens, reducing patient and staff travel, and limiting the use of unnecessary personal protective equipment can help improve the carbon footprint of intravitreal injections.
Intravitreal injections are frequently performed and therefore have important consequences in terms of carbon emissions. However, no common policy is in place to date, Redmer van Leeuwen, MD, PhD, said at the Euretina congress.
“There’s a huge difference between how we do this procedure in different countries and different clinics ... and there is also a