Attributable climate emissions: an important public-and patient-centered outcome for intensive care trials

S Murthy, M Bernat, A Perner - Intensive Care Medicine, 2024 - Springer
The climate crisis is a major public health issue [1]. For the intensive care community, it is
manifested by increasing burdens of cardiorespiratory diseases, altered infectious disease …

Less is more for greener intensive care

KJL Bell, R Stancliffe - Intensive Care Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Climate change threatens human health and increases demand for healthcare. Global
temperature is rising in near linear relationship with increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in …

Climate responsibilities in intensive care medicine—let's go green! An introduction to a new series in Intensive Care Medicine

T Bein, F McGain - Intensive Care Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Alongside species mass extinction and biodiversity loss, climate change signifies humanity's
burdened entry into the Anthropocene [1]. During the past two centuries, humanity has …

[HTML][HTML] How We Do It: Reducing the Climate Impact of Critical Care

AS Rabin, PS Lai, SI Maximous, HM Shankar - CHEST Critical Care, 2023 - Elsevier
As the health effects of climate change intensify, critical care providers have an urgent
responsibility to minimize the environmental impact of health care delivery. Though the …

Climate change, global warming, and intensive care

T Bein, C Karagiannidis, M Quintel - Intensive care medicine, 2020 - Springer
In the last five decades, human activities have resulted in the release of increasing
quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, thus contributing to global climate …

What's new in intensive care: environmental sustainability

T Bein, S Koch, C Schulz - Intensive Care Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Human activity existentially threatens the earth's ecosystems, on which economic prosperity
and human health depend. The most severe consequences of jeopardizing these …

Come hell or high water: climate change through the lens of neurocritical care

D Fischer - Intensive Care Medicine, 2023 - Springer
It is frustrating to be a doctor in the era of climate change. Many of us were drawn to
medicine by a desire to address humanity's most fundamental problems. But when it comes …

Sense and sensibility

N Hunfeld, Y Skrobik - Intensive Care Medicine, 2023 - Springer
We applaud the Intensive Care Medicine's (ICM) climate responsibility initiative [1]. We
struggle, however, with the strategy statement# 6s:'avoidance of futility is climate protective' …

Environmental sustainability and antimicrobials: an underestimated problem with far-reaching consequences

JJ De Waele, I Leroux-Roels, A Conway-Morris - Intensive Care Medicine, 2024 - Springer
In recent years, environmental sustainability in healthcare has gained increased attention.
The main contributors to environmental impact are hospitals, clinical services, and the …

Visit to intensive care of 2050

S Einav, M O'Connor, LO Chavez - Intensive Care Medicine, 2017 - Springer
In 1964, Isaac Asimov wrote an article predicting the content of the 2014 World's Fair. His
vision included artificial environments accommodating human needs (eg …