Kumulierter Energieaufwand und Lebenszykluskosten von ausgewählten Medizinprodukten im Krankenhausbereich

As the hospital of the “Barmherzigen Schwestern” in Linz is faced with the decision to replace a particular part of its reusable medical products by single-use products, the purpose of this thesis is to determine whether a switch to disposable medical products is economically and ecologically rational. After there is planned in the near future to establish a new central preparation unit for medical products, which is required for the preparation of reusable medical products, the decision for or against disposable products is crucial for the capacity planning of this project. In the runup there has been made a selection of medical products, for which analyzes should be carry out. The ecological analysis of the medical products will be held by the cumulative energy demand (CED), the economic evaluation will be determined with the help of lifecycle costing (LCC). Finally, the results of both analyzes will be presented in an efficiency portfolio. However, before the empirical analysis is carried out, a literaturebased overview of the selected analysis instruments will be given.