About this Research Topic
An estimated 4 million patients with chronic kidney disease are treated by dialysis worldwide. Although dialysis is life-sustaining, there is significant environmental impact from carbon emission from single use consumables, electricity, and water consumption. The increasing dialysis population worldwide and improved clinical outcome with intensive dialysis, home hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration is expected to accelerate carbon generation further.
Various measures from incremental dialysis, changes in procurement policies, recycling water and innovative waste management have been adopted with good success. Furthermore, research novel technologies such as sorbent technology, wearable kidney device and innovative concentrate delivery methods reported promising outcomes.
Reducing carbon emissions on dialysis remains a major challenge and requires partnership of various stakeholders and regulatory agencies collaboration. This topic explores issues surrounding green dialysis.
The goal of the current Research Topic is to increase knowledge in environmental impact and share strategies to ensure sustainability in dialysis. We are interested in looking at different practices worldwide and examine the feasibility and adoption in different dialysis settings.
We encourage researchers to submit Original Research, Reviews, Brief Research Reports, Case Reports, Clinical Trials, General Commentary, Mini Review, Perspective, Systematic Review articles pertinent to this Research Topic.The following topics may be of interest but not limited to:
• Evaluation of carbon footprint in dialysis settings
• Quality improvement projects and sustainable dialysis practices
• Waste management in dialysis
• Green building designs and ergonomics in dialysis
• Approach to adopting green dialysis
• Role of regulatory and society in promoting green dialysis
• Innovative and potential methods for reducing carbon emissions.
Various measures from incremental dialysis, changes in procurement policies, recycling water and innovative waste management have been adopted with good success. Furthermore, research novel technologies such as sorbent technology, wearable kidney device and innovative concentrate delivery methods reported promising outcomes.
Reducing carbon emissions on dialysis remains a major challenge and requires partnership of various stakeholders and regulatory agencies collaboration. This topic explores issues surrounding green dialysis.
The goal of the current Research Topic is to increase knowledge in environmental impact and share strategies to ensure sustainability in dialysis. We are interested in looking at different practices worldwide and examine the feasibility and adoption in different dialysis settings.
We encourage researchers to submit Original Research, Reviews, Brief Research Reports, Case Reports, Clinical Trials, General Commentary, Mini Review, Perspective, Systematic Review articles pertinent to this Research Topic.The following topics may be of interest but not limited to:
• Evaluation of carbon footprint in dialysis settings
• Quality improvement projects and sustainable dialysis practices
• Waste management in dialysis
• Green building designs and ergonomics in dialysis
• Approach to adopting green dialysis
• Role of regulatory and society in promoting green dialysis
• Innovative and potential methods for reducing carbon emissions.
Keywords: Green dialysis, sustainability, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, carbon footprint, wearable kidney devices
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