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Caro Kyle

Nov 6, 2026

7:03
So, Cara, could you talk us through this one a little bit?
7:06
Yeah, absolutely.
7:07
She looked at 10 TPLO procedures in two UK referral hospitals and did a broader procedural footprint than just consumables.
7:16
So, it included travel of staff and also owners to the hospitals themselves, the pharmaceuticals, how much volatile anaesthetic use was being used, the single-use consumables, energy and waste products.
7:28
The take home from that paper is that she found that there was a median carbon footprint of 63.5 kilos of CO2 per TPLO.
7:38
And to put that into general public quantification, that's the equivalent of driving 372 kilometers in an average UK petrol car.
7:47
So quite a lot.

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36:12
So if we move on to how can we change, can you give us some of the more practical, straightforward, more cheap and cheerful things that we could start off with if there's other listeners maybe in my boat who are keen to do something but haven't done enough yet? What could we start with?

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