Bringing Sustainability to Orthopaedics: Greening the Individual and the Clinic

Ian D. Engler, MD; Katherine Velicki, MD; Laura L. Bellaire, MD; Lorraine A.T. Boakye, MD; Jason R. Saleh, MD

2023 was the warmest year on Earth since global records began being tracked in 1850.

Bringing Sustainability to Orthopaedics: Greening the Future of Orthopaedics and Healthcare

Laura L. Bellaire, MD; Caellagh D. Catley, MD; Katherine Velicki, MD; Lorraine A.T. Boakye, MD; Ian D. Engler, MD

The success of society and the orthopaedic specialty depends on how the planet’s limited resources are managed.

Elongation, Derotation, and Flexion Casting on a Jackson Table

Ryan A. Finkel, MD; Selina Poon, MD, MPH, FAAOS

Editor’s note: The following article is a review of a video available via the AAOS Orthopaedic Video Theater (OVT). AAOS Now routinely reviews OVT Plus videos, which are vetted by topic experts and offer CME. For more information, visit aaos.org/OVT.

Greening the OR through Waste Reduction

Laura L. Bellaire, MD, FAAOS; Allison Mitchell, MD; Brittany N. Garcia, MD; Eitan Melamed, MD; Cassandra L. Thiel, PhD

Knowledge of the environmental and public health impacts associated with current waste-disposal practices is growing.

Surgeons Acknowledge Feelings of Detachment, Fatigue, and Hope about Waste

Hilton P. Gottschalk, MD, FAAOS, FAOA; Verena Schreiber, MD; Laura L. Bellaire, MD, FAAOS; Sonia Chaudhry, MD, FAAOS, FACS

In a 2021 study in the Journal of Climate Change and Health, Hsu et al found that over 24 hours, a total of 255 kilograms of waste was produced in a community emergency department (ED).