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May 26 2025
May 26, 2025

ISN Green-K Webinar: Ethical challenges for Green Nephrology: getting the priorities right

  • 4 PM CEST

As nephrology increasingly embraces environmentally sustainable practices, clinicians must navigate the complexities of delivering high-quality care while reducing environmental impact.

This ISN Green-K webinar explores ethical imperatives and dilemmas faced by kidney care professionals.

Imperatives regard, in hierarchical sequence : health equity (i.e. universal access to dialysis care); patients’ right of choosing treatments (implying the availability of different treatments); need to guarantee the best patient outcomes, and respecting planetary health, by wise resource allocation, avoiding futility and engaging in a reevaluation of the way dialysis is performed, and  patients are involved.

The dilemmas include avoiding futility (ex. tailoring dialysis frequency to needs; reconsidering dialysate flows) versus following economic interests or being limited to (often obsolete) regulatory rules; organizing personalized care in the setting of reduced time to dedicate to the patients; combining limited resources with quality of care; setting the perimeter of care vs lifestyle interventions.

Join experts as they examine the difficult trade-offs and guide the conversation on setting ethical and clinical priorities in green nephrology.

Learning objectives:

  • Identify the key imperatives in implementing sustainable kidney care practices.
  • Explore how resource limitations and environmental goals intersect with clinical decisions.
  • Discuss strategies to ensure equitable care while advancing green nephrology principles.
  • Comment on how attention to sustainability may lead to reinvest in improving the overall quality of care (and not decreasing it)

Further reading:

Moderators

Shaifali Sandal (Canada) 

Letizia De Chiara (Italy)

Speakers

Giorgina Barbara Piccoli (Italy)

Monday, May 26 2025 - 4 PM CEST