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One-Hour Concurrent Session

Green ICUs: A Global Blueprint for Sustainable Critical Care: Joint SCCM/ESICM Session

Monday, February 24, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
Location: W311A
CE: 1

A global blueprint for sustainable critical care is needed to effect change on a global basis. Developing such a blueprint requires comparing regional approaches to ICU sustainability, learning how to overcome implementation barriers, analyzing cost considerations and return on investment, understanding how to support staff engagement and cultural change, identifying how to measure environmental impact, and planning future directions and methods of global collaboration.

Learning Objectives:

  • Analyze the environmental impact of ICUs across different global healthcare systems
  • Compare and contrast sustainable ICU practices from three distinct geographic regions (Europe, Japan, and Australia), examining successful interventions and implementation challenges
  • Develop practical strategies for reducing the ICU environmental footprint while maintaining high standards of patient care, based on international best practices and evidence-based approaches

Presentations:

  • 11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
    ICU Sustainability Initiatives in Japan

    Kazuaki Atagi, MD, PhD, FCCM – Nara Prefectural General Hospital

  • 11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
    European Initiatives in Green Critical Care

    Jan J. De Waele, MD, PhD – Ghent University Hospital

  • 11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
    The Australian Green ICU Response: Progress and Challenges (Recorded)

    Forbes McGain, FCICM FANZCAMD – n/a

    deepak Bhonagiri, MD (he/him/his)

  • 11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time
    Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks

    Jose Pascual, MD, PhD, FACS, FCCM, FRCSC – University of Pennsylvania

    Marlies Ostermann, PhD, , MD, EDIC (she/her/hers) – Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

    Jan J. De Waele, MD, PhD – Ghent University Hospital

    Ranganatha M. Rangappa, MD

    Kazuaki Atagi, MD, PhD, FCCM – Nara Prefectural General Hospital