Environmental sustainable ICU care

Care in the ICU can be lifesaving, but is also intensive, for patients, healthcare professionals, and the environment. Initiatives to make ICU care environmentally more sustainable are increasing.
The sustainability working group of EfCCNa is enthusiastic to share knowledge and experiences with you.

Underneath you will find open access information on the projects and publications that could help you to make steps towards more sustainable care in your own ICU.

• Special issue on sustainability in critical care from the Nursing in Critical Care Journal
• Intensive Care Environmental sustainability recipe book

The following websites provide practical suggestions for making more sustainable choices within critical care:

• Choosing Wisely & Climate Action 
• The green ICU (a Dutch organization, change the language to english)

When you have a group of colleagues, who are interested in environmental sustainable ICU care, you could start a green team in your ICU. These papers provides insight on how to do this:

• Create intensive care green teams - there is no time to waste
• Environmental sustainability in intensive care: the path forward. An ESICM Green Paper
• The EfCCNa position statement of sustainability in ICU 
• ICU Management & Practice Volume 23 - Issue 3, 2023  Read more about 'the greener ICU' 

The EfCCNa sustainability working group
Jelena Slijepčević (Croatia), Mario Pytel (Czechia), Hedvika Literová (Czechia), Anneliese Raab (Austria), Alexander Furmanov (Israel), Ziga Vrhovnik (Slovenia), Stelios Iordanau (Cyprus), Willemke Stilma (The Netherlands)

Please feel free to contact us, if there are any questions or suggestions. To contact the group click here