Sustainability in Preanalytics
Dr. Mads Nybo presents:
- Release Date: 01.04.2025
- Duration: 33 minutes
- Guest: Dr. Mads Nybo
- Host: Director Global Medical & Clinical Affairs Ana-Maria Å imundiÄ
- Introduction: Dr. Mads Nybo, chief physician at the Clinical Biochemistry department of the Odense University Hospital shares his views on and experience with sustainability in the medical sector.
Timestamps for Episode 3
- 01:33 - Sustainability is very much the word on the agenda
- 02:50 - Looking at Preanalytics from a sustainable point of view
- 04:53- The situation in Denmark
- 06:20- Finding a systematic approach
- 08:08- Laboratory solutions already in practice
- 10:45 - The demand management concept and low volume tubes
- 19:30 - Waste in laboratories
- 21:49 - Could blood collection tubes be circular?
What You Can't Miss – In a Nutshell
As an industry, we can do a lot
- We have a shared responsibility, not just in the industry but also on the laboratory side. It's not always possible to see what to do from the outside, so we have an obligation to make things more sustainable.
We need to put on a different pair of glasses
- We are used to looking at laboratory processes solely from a productivity and flow-oriented perspective. For sustainability, we need to foster collaboration between laboratories, medical specialties and the industry. If we re-think our processes, there are improvement possibilites along the way.
Recycling: PET material for tubes is high quality, we should aim to recycle it
- A project with Odense hospital has proven that that used blood tubes can be decontaminated. Biohazardous waste becomes just waste. The next step will be to successfully recycle and reuse the material for new tubes.
āWe are sitting in the middle of the machinery. So if we as laboratory professionals can come up with some ideas that we could give to politicians or to the industry, that's our obligation.ā
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Mads Nybo mentioned this clinical trial conducted in 25 adult medical-surgical ICUs in Canada. The findings encouraged the Odense Hospital Team to reduce blood collection tube volumes.
Chapter 7.2.4.1 - General instructions on primary sample collection and handling include reviewing the sample volume requirements periodically to ensure that neither excessive nor insufficient amounts are collected.
