1, infectious waste
refers to the carrying of pathogenic microorganisms with the risk of infectious disease transmission of medical waste.
Including: cotton swabs, gauze and other items contaminated by the patient's blood, body fluids, excreta; infectious disease patients generated by the garbage; a variety of discarded medical specimens, blood, serum; pathogens of the culture medium, specimens, and strains of bacteria, venomous species of preservation of the liquid; after the use of disposable medical supplies and disposable medical equipment is considered infectious waste.
2, injurious waste
refers to be able to stab or cut the human body of the discarded medical sharps.
Including: medical needles, suture needles; dissecting knives, scalpels, scalpels, surgical saws of various types of medical sharps; slides, glass test tubes, glass ampoules and so on.
3, pathological waste
refers to the process of diagnosis and treatment of human waste and medical laboratory animal carcasses.
Including: surgery and other diagnostic and treatment process generated by the waste of human tissue, organs, etc.; medical laboratory animal tissues, carcasses; pathological sections of human tissue, pathological wax blocks, etc., after the waste.
4, chemical waste
refers to toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals.
Including: medical imaging room, laboratory waste chemical reagents; waste peroxyacetic acid, glutaraldehyde and other chemical disinfectants; waste mercury sphygmomanometer, mercury thermometer.
5, pharmaceutical waste
refers to expired, obsolete, deteriorated or contaminated discarded drugs.
Including: discarded antibiotics, over-the-counter drugs and other general drugs; discarded azathioprine, phenylbutyrate nitrogen mustard cisplatin, mitomycin and immunosuppressants and other cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs; discarded vaccines, blood products and so on.
Expanded Information
The collection, transportation, temporary storage, disposal and a series of other work of medical waste should be done in accordance with the rules. From the place of medical waste generated to incineration treatment site for incineration harmless treatment of the whole process to be included in the legal system management track, to adhere to the strict management, scientific management.
First of all, medical waste from medical institutions should be strictly differentiated marking, general medical waste into a yellow plastic bag, hazardous waste into a red plastic bag, infectious waste into a white plastic bag, ordinary garbage into a black plastic bag, sharps garbage into a hard container. In the transportation process does not allow any leakage, overflow, etc., and another time storage can not be too long.
Medical waste disposal personnel in their professional training based on legal awareness education. All this work will ensure that the disposal of medical waste is carried out smoothly.
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