Characterizing the Burden of Intraoperative Urological Surgical Waste Reduction and Mitigation

Presented by Royce Lee: Characterizing the Burden of Intraoperative Urological Surgical Waste: Opportunities for Reduction and Mitigation by R. Lee, A. Griggs-Demmin, A. Cohen Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. In the US, each hospital patient produces about 15.33kg of waste daily, resulting in 5.5 million metric tons of waste every year. The burden of urologic surgical waste has not yet been fully examined. This study aimed to establish baseline estimates of the various types and amounts of intraoperative urological surgical waste, to understand the scope of the problem.