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Sign upInternationally scalable waste anaesthetic capture and recycling system
Efficiently capture volatile anaesthesia agents and aims to protect healthcare workers
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Healthcare's mission is to “first, do no harm” but has a significant climate footprint and makes a major contribution to the climate crisis, which is evolving into a global health emergency.
Volatile anaesthetic drugs are widely used with a global annual turnover of $1.3bn. The drugs are expensive to produce, in monetary and environmental terms. In practice, once exhaled by patients the drugs are vented to atmosphere. This is very damaging to the environment, contributing a huge 3.1 million tons of CO2 equivalents a year. SageTech’s solution prevents this atmospheric discharge, collects the exhaled drug, and re-purifies it, fit for human re-use. Drug metabolism is low, around 5%, so recovery yields are very high. The solution deploys a system of collection and purification that has sustainability at its core. Working with our pressure systems keeps instruments compact and no organic solvents are used in our process. SageTech’s solution offers large financial savings on hospital infrastructure installations and maintenance costs by eliminating the need for expensive air extraction systems to take the exhaled drugs from the operating theatres to the chimney.
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October 19, 2020
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United Kingdom
Maturity stage
Prototype testing in the real world
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Network, New clients, Visibility, Funding, Partners, Credibility
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The environmental benefits
- •Prevents release of 3.1Mt CO2-eq per year
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The Financial benefits
- •Eliminates the need for expensive air extraction systems
- •Substantial financial savings on hospital infrastructure installations and maintenance costs
- •50% saving versus current environmental damaging infrastructure
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Company Profile
SageTech Medical Equipment
SageTech Medical has developed technology to stop the release of anaesthetic gases into the atmosphere
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Paignton TQ4 7AU, UK
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