Tools and resources

Hospital highlight: Harborview Medical Center

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Greenhouse Gas
• Clinician engagement
• Case Study

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Purchasing new anesthesia machines presented an opportunity for the sustainability and anesthesia teams at Harborview Medical Center to partner with supply chain and clinical engineering to select equipment with environmental attributes like fresh gas flow monitors. New machines helped the organization reduce GHG emissions and costs related to anesthetic gases.

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Hospital highlight: Seattle Children’s Hospital

• Anesthetic Gas
• Case Study
• Greenhouse Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Clinician engagement

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) As a teaching hospital, Seattle Children’s has a high volume of new residents and anesthesia providers, posing a challenge for education and compliance. Learn about the thorough monthly orientation and education strategy they used to reduce GHG emissions from anesthesia. 

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Hospital highlight: Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greenhouse Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Case Study
• Clinician engagement

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center used education to reduce GHG emissions from anesthesia, saving more than $22k for the organization.

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Hospital highlight: UW Health

• Case Study
• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Clinician engagement
• Greenhouse Gas

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Check out the engagement strategy UW Health developed to reduce GHG emissions from anesthesia and save more than $240k annually. 

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William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital anesthetic gas poster

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Clinician engagement
• Poster
• Exemplary Document

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Check out the poster William S. Middleton Veterans Memorial Hospital used to educate staff and share financial savings and GHG reduction success. 

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Hospital highlight: William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Clinician engagement
• Case Study
• Greenhouse Gas

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Check out this hospital highlight: William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital reduced GHG emissions from anesthetic gases by 65 percent and saved $11,000. 

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Anesthesia checklist

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Greenhouse Gas
• Clinician engagement
• Toolkit
• Checklist

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Use this checklist to assess current practices and track implementation of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from anesthetic gases. Strategies apply to anesthesia care by clinicians, as well as engineering, facilities, pharmacy, EVS, supply chain, and other key stakeholders.

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Anesthetic gas data collection and tracking tool

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Greenhouse Gas
• Clinician engagement
• Toolkit
• Tool

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Establishing a baseline and tracking progress toward waste reduction goals helps make the case to senior leadership for the program’s continuation. Use this tool to enter anesthetic gas data and track progress over time. This interactive spreadsheet will calculate the MTCO2e from purchasing data, track percent change, and visually highlight the breakdown 

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Anesthetic gas data collection worksheet

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greenhouse Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Clinician engagement
• Toolkit

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) Establishing a baseline and tracking use of anesthetic gases is central to the anesthetic gas goal. Working with your organization’s anesthesia champion, supply chain, pharmacy, clinical engineering staff, and/or medical gas vendor, use the data collection worksheet to gather annual purchasing data. 

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Anesthetic gas reduction goal

• Anesthetic Gas
• Greening the Operating Room
• Clinician engagement
• Greenhouse Gas
• Toolkit

(Anesthetic gas toolkit) As more health care organizations are setting GHG reduction and carbon neutral goals, focusing on anesthesia is one strategy that can support scope 1 emissions reduction and engage clinicians. Use the Practice Greenhealth anesthesia goal to set a target your facility can achieve. 

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