The procurement team consists of a surgeon(s), a nurse or other clinician and a Gift of Life organ preservationist. Due to increased preservation times, up to 72 hours for kidneys and 24 hours for livers, the transplant team will normally drive to the hospital.
Environmental Sustainability. To define environmental sustainability we must first define sustainability. Sustainability is the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely. To define what environmental sustainability is we turn to the experts.
U.S. EPA Definition of VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) defines and uses the term Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). The term VOC is defined in the Federal Register. The original definition of VOC made reference to the vapor pressure of the. compounds (greater than 0.1 millimeter of mercury) as a determinant of volatility.