Background Endoscopic procedures are a notable source of medical waste, contributing significantly to environmental pollution. Prior studies report 0.5–3.0 kg of waste per procedure—compared with just ...

Medical devices include all equipment used ... Multiple life cycle assessments have shown that reusable gowns can generate up to sevenfold less solid waste and half the amount of global greenhouse ...

This data can be transmitted to medical staff via wireless networks ... including healthcare. Reusable hospital gowns made from durable, high-quality materials are becoming more popular as ...

AmorSui has since grown to become a medical supply company offering reusable lab coats, medical gowns, and gloves aimed at tackling the growing concern about waste produced by the health care ...

The medical sector is responsible for 8% of ... UCLA Health eliminated 230 tons of landfill waste a year when it switched to reusable gowns, for example. In this area too, the pandemic played ...

surgical gowns and operating theatre drapes. Currently, most reusable PPE and regulated medical textiles had to be washed in "large centralised laundry facilities", the university said ...

They pointed to other hospital systems’ success with reusable gowns, including UCLA Medical Center, which began using them in 2012. Over three years, that system saved $1.1 million on purchasing ...

had reduced the number of medical gowns used from 900,000 between January 1 and June 30 in 2022 to 160,000 during the same period the next year, by switching to reusable gowns. "But that's one ...