Publications by authors named "M M M Eussen"
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- Surgical care in the operating room creates a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, making up a third of healthcare's total emissions.
- A big study looked at many articles about how gastrointestinal surgery affects the environment to find ways to make it more sustainable.
- The results showed that using less anesthetic gases and reducing surgical waste can significantly help lessen the impact on the environment, and having special teams to promote these changes is a good idea.
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- Surgeons around the world are interested in making surgery more eco-friendly, so a group was formed to learn more about their thoughts on this topic.
- They sent out a survey to understand how surgeons feel about being sustainable, how much they know about the carbon footprint of their surgeries, and what changes they are willing to make.
- The results showed that most surgeons want to help the environment but don’t know much about how their practices affect it; they prefer learning through online resources.
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- The healthcare system has a big impact on the environment, especially operating rooms, which contribute a lot to carbon emissions.
- Major organizations and governments are working together to make healthcare more sustainable and reduce its carbon footprint.
- A new group called the Sustainability in Surgical Practice task force was formed to promote better practices and encourage actions that help both surgery and the environment.
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- Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is a type of epilepsy in kids that usually doesn't cause long-term problems, as many kids outgrow it before becoming adults.
- Researchers studied 17 children with CAE and 15 healthy kids to compare their brain networks using special brain scans and measurements.
- They found that kids with CAE had less organized brain networks, which seemed to affect their thinking skills, showing that CAE can influence both brain structure and learning.
