This playbook is intended for all kidney health professionals and advocates. Patients, technicians, nurses, dieticians, pharmacists, administrators, nephrologists and industry partners all have important roles to play in providing quality kidney care while mitigating the impact of climate change and fostering responsible resource use. The playbook intends to: 1.Inform of the reciprocal relationship between climate change and kidney health. 2.Provide knowledge and tools to guide implementation and practice of environmentally sustainable kidney care (ESKC). 3.Inspire action using examples from Canadian settings and practitioners of ESKC.
The CSN Sustainable Nephrology Committee (SNAP) created a pre-recorded lecture focusing on environmentally sustainable kidney care and climate change. The goal of this lecture is to increase awareness amongst nephrology practitioners of the effects of climate change on kidney care, resiliency and adaptation measures, and how we can become involved from an education as well as quality improvement standpoint. Speakers include: Dr Caroline Stigant (Victoria, BC), Dr Neil Finkle (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Dr Tamara Glavinovic (Ottawa, Ontario), Dr Blake Sandery (BC Childrens), Dr Yohanna (Hamilton, Ontario).
The SNAP committee is comprised of a country-wide group of providers dedicated to aligning kidney care with planetary health principles, thereby advancing patient care within a framework of environmental sustainability.
This resource provides an overview of work on this topic, general principles and recommendations to consider and a table of specimens exempt for automatic submission to pathology laboratories in various jurisdictions.
This Playbook comprises a summary of information relevant to AP, with added actions specific for AP labs to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other harmful environmental effects. The target audience for this Playbook are anatomical pathologists, and anatomical pathology laboratory technical managers and supervisors.
This playbook is intended for all medical imaging professionals and teams including radiologists, technologists, healthcare executives, facility operations teams, allied healthcare providers, patients, and industry partners.
This playbook provides information and resources that are relevant to many roles in the health system, including laboratory technicians, clinicians, facilities, health leaders, sustainability and energy managers, etc. The recommendations in this report are geared towards medical laboratories (including anatomical pathology) but the principles of sustainability interlaced throughout can apply to many departments in a health-care setting, or other laboratories such as research or educational. This playbook was adapted from a Greening the Lab Opportunity Investigation conducted by the Environmental Sustainability team at British Columbia’s Interior Health Authority.
