Honorary Associate Professor Forbes McGain
Anaesthetist and ICU Physician, Western Health, Victoria, Australia
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Forbes has been an anaesthetist and intensive care physician at Western Health, Melbourne, Australia for the past decade. Beyond clinical work, education, becoming a CICM First Part Examiner and surviving adult/parenthood, he completed a PhD in the field of hospital environmental sustainability in 2016.
Forbes enjoys collaborating in research and education at the hospital, university and beyond. Forbes remains passionate about making seemingly small environmental, financial and social sustainability changes to how we practice medicine that become magnified through every nations’ hospitals. |
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The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis; So What Are You Doing To Do About It Doc?
Climate Change is beginning to have profound consequences to our civilisation. Climate Change is in fact the 'slow burn' health emergency that will require a massive, co-ordinated effort to overcome. Climate Change is detrimental in myriad ways to our health: our lungs, our hearts, our psyche, our kidneys, our elderly, our children. Doctors have a vital role to play informing the public of the growing importance of the health effects of the climate crisis.
Simultaneously, healthcare itself pollutes, contributing to the climate crisis (4.5% of the world's entire CO2 emissions is due to healthcare=Japan). There are positive ways a doctor can influence, research, and collaborate with other healthcare staff to head to the land of low carbon whilst supporting excellent patient care.
Forbes McGain has spent a dozen years pondering the health effects of the climate crisis and investigating ways to make hospitals more environmentally sustainable. Take a journey down his road to low carbon health!
The ICU: The Pinnacle of Healthcare, The Furthest To Fall.
Hospital environmental sustainability routinely aligns rather than misaligns with caring, effective, efficient, and financially prudent medicine.
In this lecture we'll explore the speaker's voyage from novice to somewhat more informed and experienced journeyman in the world of healthcare environmental sustainability. The basics of life cycle assessment (LCA)= environmental footprinting will be examined. We shall see where the ICU fits within healthcare's environmental effects and raise awareness of the ICU's environmental footprint. We will also consider the most important ways to 'tread lightly' whilst caring for patients so that we can all walk on...
Heat Related Drama in a Hot World
How does heat affect humans? We discuss heatstroke, comparing exertional to classical. It's surprising what we don't know about how well heat and humidity are tolerated by us. We review recent basic physiological research regarding the limits of toleration of heat and humidity by the healthy, the elderly, and the infirm, as well as simple methods to treat such heat. We also examine Thunderstorm Asthma as experienced in Melbourne in 2016. Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Origin, originating in field workers in Central America is mentioned. The speaker's personal anecdotes of dealing with heat in Central Australia with the Royal Flying Doctor Service are sprinkled throughout the lecture.
Climate Change is beginning to have profound consequences to our civilisation. Climate Change is in fact the 'slow burn' health emergency that will require a massive, co-ordinated effort to overcome. Climate Change is detrimental in myriad ways to our health: our lungs, our hearts, our psyche, our kidneys, our elderly, our children. Doctors have a vital role to play informing the public of the growing importance of the health effects of the climate crisis.
Simultaneously, healthcare itself pollutes, contributing to the climate crisis (4.5% of the world's entire CO2 emissions is due to healthcare=Japan). There are positive ways a doctor can influence, research, and collaborate with other healthcare staff to head to the land of low carbon whilst supporting excellent patient care.
Forbes McGain has spent a dozen years pondering the health effects of the climate crisis and investigating ways to make hospitals more environmentally sustainable. Take a journey down his road to low carbon health!
The ICU: The Pinnacle of Healthcare, The Furthest To Fall.
Hospital environmental sustainability routinely aligns rather than misaligns with caring, effective, efficient, and financially prudent medicine.
In this lecture we'll explore the speaker's voyage from novice to somewhat more informed and experienced journeyman in the world of healthcare environmental sustainability. The basics of life cycle assessment (LCA)= environmental footprinting will be examined. We shall see where the ICU fits within healthcare's environmental effects and raise awareness of the ICU's environmental footprint. We will also consider the most important ways to 'tread lightly' whilst caring for patients so that we can all walk on...
Heat Related Drama in a Hot World
How does heat affect humans? We discuss heatstroke, comparing exertional to classical. It's surprising what we don't know about how well heat and humidity are tolerated by us. We review recent basic physiological research regarding the limits of toleration of heat and humidity by the healthy, the elderly, and the infirm, as well as simple methods to treat such heat. We also examine Thunderstorm Asthma as experienced in Melbourne in 2016. Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Origin, originating in field workers in Central America is mentioned. The speaker's personal anecdotes of dealing with heat in Central Australia with the Royal Flying Doctor Service are sprinkled throughout the lecture.