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Environmental sustainability in cardiology: reducing the carbon footprint of the catheterization laboratory

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After 40 years of spectacular technological innovation, catheter ablation has become central to the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, revolutionizing patient care but with no consideration for environmental sustainability. With climate change being the biggest threat to humanity, all stakeholders urgently need to promote more virtuous and circular practices in the catheterization laboratory.

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Fig. 1: Reducing the environmental impact of cardiac electrophysiology catheters.

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  1. Electrophysiology and Heart Modelling Institute, IHU Liryc, Université de Bordeaux, INSERM CRCTB U1045, Pessac, France

    Julie Boussuge-Roze, Josselin Duchateau, Frederic Sacher & Pierre Jaïs

  2. Department of Electrophysiology and Cardiac Stimulation, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

    Josselin Duchateau, Frederic Sacher & Pierre Jaïs

  3. Department of Electrophysiology, Hopital Cardiologique Louis Pradel, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France

    Francis Bessiere

  4. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Faculté de Médecine Lyon Est, Lyon, France

    Francis Bessiere

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Boussuge-Roze, J., Duchateau, J., Bessiere, F. et al. Environmental sustainability in cardiology: reducing the carbon footprint of the catheterization laboratory. Nat Rev Cardiol 20, 69–70 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-022-00826-2

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