What's my carbon footprint?
This volatile anesthetic was removed from formulary at SJHC in _____
What is Desflurane?
This medication to hold on hand for anaphylactic emergencies usually expires 12-18 months and need to be replaced.
What is an Epipen?
This European country's "Cyclamed" program provides a nationally coordinated system for returning unused medications (but not wine).
What is France?
Pharmacists should perform this task at least once every 90 days for every patient.
What is "Review the medication profile"?
This is the organization that helps to take back medications for safe disposal in ON, BC, MB, NB, QC and PEI
What is the Health Products Stewardship Association (HPSA)?
This common medication-related practice significantly increases healthcare’s carbon footprint due to wasted manufacturing, packaging, and disposal—making deprescribing and right-sizing quantities key strategies to reduce environmental impact.
What is medication overprescribing and waste?
This best practice ensures that, when restocking medications, the shorter expiry dates are used first and the newer stock is used later.
What is rotating stock?
This global organization encourages proper medication disposal and environmentally sustainable healthcare practices Worldwide.
What is the World Health Organization?
This hospital team is credited with preventing the emergence of multi-drug-resistant organisms, and also narrowing broad antibiotic use.
Who is Antimicrobial stewardship?
This container is used to safely dispose of needles, lancets, broken glass, and other sharp medical objects.
What is a sharps container?
How many Canadian households match the annual carbon footprint of one hospital bed.
What is 5?
These bulk items are often misplaced on the wards should be dispensed from pharmacy in a plastic bag for infection control reasons and can only be tubed once.
What are insulin pens?
Under the Green Hospital Network, this country composts food waste on-site for landscaping and fertilizer. Unfinishe pad thai would be composted.
What is Thailand?
In addition to decreasing waste, this review and modification of medication consumption, helps prevent adverse outcomes in seniors.
What is deprescribing?
These common, handheld, pressurized, medication administration devices should not be punctured or thrown in regular trash due to environmental and safety concerns.
What are metered-dose inhalers (MDIs)?
Which one of the following hospital elements has the largest carbon footprint: buildings/energy, supplies/pharmaceuticals, travel/transport, or waste?
What is supplies/pharmaceuticals (and the wider supply chain)?
These minims used in ophthalmology ORs are the only minims that must always be keep refrigerated and not brought to room temperature.
What is povidone-iodine?
The hospitals of this East Asian island nation, achieve over 80% recycling through government-community partnerships and zero-waste policies.
What is Japan?
At SJHC, this formulation policy allows fluconazole, metronidazole, cipro, moxi, and pantoprazole to be switched so that IV waste is minimized.
What is the IV to PO conversion policy?
Items saturated with blood or bodily fluids that could pose an infection risk, are disposed of in this type of waste (often marked with a symbol).
What is biomedical/biohazardous waste?
List in order, from highest global warming potential to lowest, the following inhaled anesthetic agents: desflurane, nitrous oxide, sevoflurane.
What is desflurane, nitrous oxide, sevoflurane?
This pharmacy technician role is critical in saving very high drug costs and wastage by opening vials and reconstituting minimally as needed.
What are chemo technicians?
This Alpine country has implemented advanced wastewater treatment technologies to remove pharmaceutical residues from water supplies. It also has amazing skiing.
What is Switzerland?
Antimicrobial stewardship programs reduce healthcare-associated infections like this toxin-producer, alongside resistance patterns.
What is Clostridioides difficile?
What is rendering the medication irretrievable?