Workplace sustainability: The "cradle to grave" view of what we do

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1134-1139

  McGain, Forbes ^a,b,c   Story, David ^c,d   Kayak, Eugenie ^c,d   Kashima, Yoshihisa ^e   McAlister, Scott ^c  

^a WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WESTERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^c Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Austin Health ^*

^d AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FLUID INTAKE; HOSPITAL WASTE; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; WORKPLACE SUSTAINABILITY;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; INDUSTRY; MEDICAL WASTE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLASTICS; RISK; WORKPLACE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84860273368     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31824ddfef     Document Type: Article

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