Environmentally sustainable surgery: A plea to act

Hayden Snow^{1

2

3}, Russell Hodgson^{4

5}, Michael W Hii^{5

6}, Fairleigh Reeves^{5

7}, David Proud^{5

8}, Tracey Lam^{5

9

10}, Dennis Gyomber^{4

5}, Benjamin Dunne^{1

5

11

12}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Surgery, Western Health, Sunshine, Australia.
³ Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Division of Surgery, Northern Health, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵ Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ Department of HPB and Upper GI Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁷ Department of Urology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁸ Department of General Surgery, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
⁹ Epworth General Surgery Clinical Institute, Epworth HealthCare, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Surgery, Western Health, Footscray, Australia.
¹¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
¹² Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Environmental Sustainability in Surgical Practice Working Party, Australia.

PMID: 37458184
DOI: 10.1111/ans.18609

Environmentally sustainable surgery: A plea to act

Hayden Snow et al. ANZ J Surg. 2023 Nov.

. 2023 Nov;93(11):2562-2564.

doi: 10.1111/ans.18609. Epub 2023 Jul 17.

Authors

Hayden Snow^{1

2

3}, Russell Hodgson^{4

5}, Michael W Hii^{5

6}, Fairleigh Reeves^{5

7}, David Proud^{5

8}, Tracey Lam^{5

9

10}, Dennis Gyomber^{4

5}, Benjamin Dunne^{1

5

11

12}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
² Department of Surgery, Western Health, Sunshine, Australia.
³ Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Division of Surgery, Northern Health, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵ Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ Department of HPB and Upper GI Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁷ Department of Urology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁸ Department of General Surgery, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
⁹ Epworth General Surgery Clinical Institute, Epworth HealthCare, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Surgery, Western Health, Footscray, Australia.
¹¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
¹² Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Environmental Sustainability in Surgical Practice Working Party, Australia.

PMID: 37458184
DOI: 10.1111/ans.18609

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