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As an individual employee or department, you may not use a lot of paper … but have you ever thought about what LHSC consumes as an organization? The numbers might surprise you. Every month, LHSC uses: Gloves: 1,763,641 Pieces of facial tissue paper: 1,218,080 Pieces of bulk and sterile gauze: 634...

What is Green Procurement? “Green procurement is the procurement of products and services that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose. A green product is one that is less harmful than the next...

Biomedical waste is regulated by the Ministry of the Environment through the Environmental Protection Act. The C-4: Management of Biomedical Waste in Ontario guideline is followed by LHSC to ensure the proper management of biomedical waste. Recycling is always the preferred method, but the unique...

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The Ministry of the Environment holds LHSC accountable for the proper disposal of and reporting of all hazardous wastes through the Hazardous Waste Information Network (HWIN). All chemicals must be disposed of according to our Chemical Waste Control Procedures and LHSC's Waste Management Manual . In...

ENTERAL FEEDING TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TPN Patients need adequate nutrition to recover from any illness. Patients who are critically ill have high nutritional requirements and can become malnourished very quickly. We know from research findings that early feeding is important to patient outcome...

ATHEROSCLEROSIS, ARTERIOSCLEROSIS ("hardening of the arteries") The lining of healthly blood vessels is smooth and uniform, allowing blood to flow with little difficulty. Atherosclerosis is the medical term for "hardening of the arteries" and is a blood vessel disease that is characterized by...

SUCTION ; SUCTIONING SECRETIONS The word suction means to "vacuum out". We can connect any drainage tube to suction if we want to remove a collection of fluid. We have different types of suction equipment to manage different types of tubes. The most common type of suction procedure is performed on...

ATELECTASIS Atelectasis is a term used to describe a collapsed area or "airless" area of lung. Air travels from the windpipe (called the trachea) and enters the right or left bronchus. From the two main bronchi, the air passages branch into smaller tubes called bronchioles. At the very end of the...

ANALGESIC , ANALGESIA MORPHINE , FENTANYL , FENTANYL PATCH ; BOLUS ADMISTRATION An analgesic is a drug that relieves pain. Analgesia is the absence of pain. Analgesics are used to produce analgesia. There are many sources for patient pain and discomfort within a critical care environment. Procedural...