Feb 14, 2023
There is a moment that regularly occurs in the life of a clinician working at a major trauma service - where a rotating registrar, a keen sponge - appears, and a discussion about learning goals for the rotation is had. Its always about trauma, I'm here to learn procedures, intercostal catheter insertion, thoracotomies...
Jan 31, 2023
Healthcare Saves!
Healthcare Pollutes!
Healthcare is responsible for 7% of Australia's carbon emissions, consumes 10% of Australia's GDP, and has numerous other adverse environmental effects.
In this talk, Forbes McGain, an anaesthetist and intensive care physician, introduces healthcare's polluting ways, and how...
Jan 31, 2023
The chair, Kate Charlesworth opens by explaining that the healthcare system has a big problem – we are, in effect, producing our own patients. We use huge amounts of resources; produce vast amounts of waste and have a big carbon footprint. Globally, if the healthcare system was a country, it would be the fifth biggest...
Jan 30, 2023
Beyond Zero Emissions is an independent think tank that shows through research and innovative solutions how Australia can prosper in a zero-emissions economy. Over the past 10 years we have published research on how to decarbonise sectors of the economy such as energy, transport, buildings and heavy industry.
Healthcare...