炭素コストから気候ケアへ：集中治療室のグリーン化
From carbon cost to climate care: Greening our intensive care units (原題)
Sargam Goel, Sahil Kataria, Deven Juneja
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日本語
医療システム、とりわけ集中治療室（ICU）はエネルギー需要・使い捨て医療機器・医薬品消費により炭素集約度が高い。本レビューはライフサイクル評価と国際事例を統合し、省エネ設備、持続可能な調達、廃棄物削減、デジタル最適化、低価値診療の見直しといった脱炭素戦略を提示する。多くは品質改善原則と整合し、医療有害事象の削減や患者・スタッフの福利といった臨床的副次効果を伴う。SDGsや各国ネットゼロ医療公約を制度的レバーとして論じ、ICUのグリーン化を競合課題ではなく、より安全で強靭な集中治療を実現する機会と位置づける。
English
ICUs are among healthcare's most carbon-intensive settings due to continuous energy demand, single-use devices, and high pharmaceutical use. This narrative review synthesizes life-cycle evidence and international case studies to outline feasible, clinically safe decarbonization strategies: energy-efficient infrastructure, sustainable procurement, waste reduction, digital optimization, and re-evaluation of low-value care. Many interventions align with quality-improvement principles and yield clinical co-benefits such as reduced iatrogenic harm and improved staff wellbeing. It frames greening ICUs as an opportunity for safer, more resilient critical care, enabled by SDGs and national net-zero health commitments.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本の医療機関は非製造業としてGX開示の直接対象になりにくいが、病院の脱炭素はScope3調達・エネルギー管理・ESG調達基準の観点で、医療機器メーカーや病院グループの統合報告・サステナビリティ報告に示唆を与える。
In the global GX context
While healthcare sits outside the core TCFD/ISSB corporate disclosure perimeter, hospital decarbonization connects to Scope 3 procurement, energy management, and green public procurement. It adds a service-sector, health-system lens to global net-zero healthcare commitments (NHS, WHO) and to CSRD-style value-chain reporting for medical suppliers.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:医療部門の脱炭素をライフサイクル評価と品質改善の交点で捉える枠組みを提供する。
🏢実務担当者:病院・医療機器調達チームが省エネ、廃棄物削減、持続可能調達を臨床品質と両立させる実務指針として使える。
🏛政策担当者:医療のネットゼロ公約を制度設計に落とす際、臨床安全と両立する介入メニューの参考になる。
📄 Abstract（原文）
Healthcare systems are major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, with intensive care units (ICUs) among the most carbon-intensive environments due to continuous energy demand, extensive reliance on single-use medical devices, and high pharmaceutical consumption. This narrative review examines the environmental footprint of ICUs, synthesising contemporary life-cycle evidence and international case studies describing feasible and clinically safe sustainability interventions in critical care. We outline practical strategies for ICU decarbonisation, including energy-efficient infrastructure, sustainable procurement, waste reduction, digital optimisation, and re-evaluation of low-value clinical practices. Importantly, many of these interventions align with established quality-improvement principles and are associated with clinical co-benefits such as reduced iatrogenic harm, improved patient comfort, and enhanced staff wellbeing. Broader policy frameworks, including the Sustainable Development Goals and national net-zero healthcare commitments, are discussed as enabling levers for system-level adoption. Greening ICUs should therefore be viewed not as a competing priority, but as an opportunity to deliver safer, more resilient, and patient-centred critical care while advancing planetary health.
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- crossref https://doi.org/10.5492/wjccm.119925first seen 2026-09-16 05:37:42 · last seen 2026-09-22 05:45:57
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