Recyclable and contaminated waste from cardiac procedures: a call to action for a sustainable catheterisation laboratory and operating theatre

Haitham Amin¹, Nooraldaem Yousif¹, Thomas F Lüscher^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Mohammed Bin Khalifa Specialist Cardiac Centre, Awali, Kingdom of Bahrain.
² Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zürich, Schlieren, Switzerland.
³ Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals and Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ King's College, London, United Kingdom.

Editorial

Haitham Amin et al. EuroIntervention. 2024.

. 2024 Aug 19;20(16):968-969.

doi: 10.4244/EIJ-D-24-00335.

Haitham Amin¹, Nooraldaem Yousif¹, Thomas F Lüscher^{2

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¹ Mohammed Bin Khalifa Specialist Cardiac Centre, Awali, Kingdom of Bahrain.
² Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zürich, Schlieren, Switzerland.
³ Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals and Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ King's College, London, United Kingdom.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.

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