Simple adjustments can significantly reduce environmental impact without compromising patient care.
Intravitreal injections have become standard procedures in retinal care to deliver medication directly into the vitreous humor for conditions like diabetic retinopathy, neovascular age-related macular degeneration , and choroidal neovascularization, with millions administered annually worldwide.
Each injection, he said, produces 190 g of medical waste, which equates to about 3 million kilograms of landfill waste in the United States."We know from studies that reusing these shipping materials can significantly reduce this carbon footprint and landfill waste," said Grodsky. Jens Kiilgaard, MD, PhD, an ophthalmologist at Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, who was not involved in the review, said during the following panel discussion that he found the number"depressing," emphasizing the need to increase awareness on the topic and conduct more studies.
The team found that the overall endophthalmitis rate was low at 0.0166%, equivalent to approximately 1 in 6000 injections. While the incidence was lower in the gloved group than in the non-gloved group , this difference did not reach statistical significance (This suggests that using nonsterile gloves may not substantially reduce the risk for postinjection endophthalmitis, said Anderson, presenting the study results at ASRS.
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