Environmental accountability in perioperative settings

AORN Journal,  June, 2003  by Ann Melamed

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(19.) "Section VII--More about regulated medical waste," Hospitals for a Healthy Environment, http:// www.h2e-online.org/pubs/wrguide /section7.pdf (accessed 18 March 2003).

(20.) Ibid.

(21.) K Gerwig, "Waste management & healthcare," 68.

(22.) "Dioxins and furans," US Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.epa.gov/pbt/dioxins.htm (accessed 18 March 2003).

(23.) J Emmanuel, Non-incineration Medical Waste Treatment Technologies (Washington, DC: Health Care Without Harm, 2001) 13.

(24.) "Dioxins and furans."

(25.) M Rossi, T Schettler, "PVC & healthcare," Setting Healthcare's Environmental Agenda: Papers and Proceedings from the October 16, 2000 Conference (Falls Church, Va: Health Care Without Harm, 2000) 30; America's Choice: Children Health or Corporate Profit, The American People's Dioxin Report, Technical Support Document, November 1999, Center for Health, Environment and Justice, http://www .chej.org/report.html#Chapter%204 (accessed 4 April 2003).

(26.) Emmanuel, Non-incineration Medical Waste Treatment Technologies, 24.

(27.) Ibid, 23-24.

(28.) Ibid, 24.

(29.) Ibid, 61.

(30.) Ibid, 61.

(31.) Ibid, 63.

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(34.) "Reducing mercury in hospitals and biomedical facilities: A MIRT seminar, May 23, 2001," Medical Industry Waste Prevention Round Table, http://dnr.metrokc.gov /swd/bizprog/waste_pre/MIRTsem8 .htm (accessed 18 March 2003).

(35.) A Melamed, C Ternullo-Retta, "Plastic chemicals are a threat to neonates," Central Lines: The NANN Pages 17 (December 2001/January 2002) 31-33.

(36.) "Public health notification: PVC devices containing the plasticizer DEHP," (July 12, 2002) US Food and Drug Administration, http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/safety/dehp .pdf (accessed 18 March 2003).

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(38.) "Mission and goals," Health Care Without Harm, http://www.no harm.org/aboutUs/missionGoals (accessed 30 April 2003).

(39.) A Melamed, "AORN joins effort to eliminate pollution in health care," Congress News, 24 April 2002, 8.

(40.) L Robinson, letter to William Saunders, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 24 July 2001, Hospitals for a Healthy Environment, http://www.h2e-online .org/pubs/letter.pdf (accessed 18 March 2003).

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