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Table B5.2 ( Continued )
Design Principle
Opportunities for Sustainable Biomedicine
Improved energy
efficiencies
Heat will always be important in reactions, so
green approaches that reduce energy input
may lead to greater energy-efficient systems,
including intrinsic and extrinsic hazards
(e.g., to test certain scale-ups of hydrogen
and other
economies).
Design for degradation
Medical research can lead the way to better
characterization of wastes and improved
treatment approaches for those wastes that
will be formed (e.g., microbially,
photochemical,
biochemical).
Real-time analysis to
prevent pollution and
concurrent
engineering
Real-time environmental mass spectrometry
and other analytical techniques can be used
to analyze whole products, and systems,
obviating the need for further sample
preparation and analytical steps. This can
also include increasing morphological
characterizations, such as electron
microscopy (e.g., field emission and atomic
force).
Accident prevention
Rather than waiting for an accident to occur
and conducting failure analyses, medical and
design professionals can cooperate to
develop concurrent programs to foresee
possible conditions conducive to an accident
and take steps to prevent them from
occurring. Accidents are an example of
management failure and inefficiency, so
accident prevention is a key part of any
sustainable medical program.
Source: Except for “Nano-materials,” adapted from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Green
chemistry,” http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/principles.html, 2005, accessed April 12, 2005.
 
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