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Cassandra L. Thiel
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 66
Citations - 1712
Cassandra L. Thiel is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Health care. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 44 publications receiving 806 citations. Previous affiliations of Cassandra L. Thiel include Michigan Technological University & Johns Hopkins University.
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Environmental Impacts of Surgical Procedures: Life Cycle Assessment of Hysterectomy in the United States
Cassandra L. Thiel,Matthew J. Eckelman,Richard S. Guido,Matthew Huddleston,Amy E. Landis,Jodi D. Sherman,Scott O. Shrake,Noe Copley-Woods,Melissa M. Bilec +8 more
TL;DR: Life cycle assessment results show that major sources of environmental emissions include the production of disposable materials and single-use surgical devices, energy used for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, and anesthetic gases.
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Cataract surgery and environmental sustainability: Waste and lifecycle assessment of phacoemulsification at a private healthcare facility.
Cassandra L. Thiel,Emily Schehlein,Thulasiraj Ravilla,R. D. Ravindran,Alan L. Robin,Osamah Saeedi,Joel S. Schuman,Rengaraj Venkatesh +7 more
TL;DR: Results show that ophthalmologists and other medical specialists can reduce material use and emissions in medical procedures using the system described here.
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Sustainable healthcare and environmental life-cycle impacts of disposable supplies: a focus on disposable custom packs
TL;DR: This study analyzed 15 custom packs from geographically diverse hospitals using life cycle assessment and design for the environment and found that cotton composed the largest portion of environmental impacts in every category.
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Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Laparoscopic Surgery.
TL;DR: To reduce the environmental emissions of surgeries, health care providers need to implement a combination of approaches, including minimizing materials, moving away from certain heat-trapping anesthetic gases, maximizing instrument reuse or single-use device reprocessing, and reducing off-hour energy use in the operating room.
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A Materials Life Cycle Assessment of a Net-Zero Energy Building
Cassandra L. Thiel,Nicole Campion,Amy E. Landis,Alex K. Jones,Laura Schaefer,Melissa M. Bilec +5 more
TL;DR: The Center for Sustainable Landscapes (CSL) as mentioned in this paper is a three-story, 24,350 square foot educational, research, and administrative office in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.