Medical waste how to correctly handle and delivery process
Medical waste, also known as medical waste, refers to the contact with the patient's blood, flesh and other contaminated garbage produced by the hospital, such as used cotton balls, gauze, adhesive tape, wastewater, disposable medical instruments, post-surgical waste, expired drugs and so on. Medical waste is characterized by spatial contamination, acute contagion and latent contamination. Here is my knowledge of how medical waste should be properly handled and transported, welcome to read.
Different medical waste treatment methods
Life Waste
Life Waste is collected by the generating department classified, put into a black plastic bag filled with 3/4 full → property staff tied up and sent to the temporary storage barrel → property full-time delivery personnel with leakage trucks transported to the → hospital waste station → by the sanitation department. The hospital garbage station → by the sanitation department special car transported away to deal with.
Recyclable plastic waste
Recyclable plastic waste is collected by the department of classification, put into a brown plastic bag filled 3/4 full → sent by the property staff to the hospital room in the temporary storage barrels → sent by the property staff to the hospital room in the temporary storage → sent by the recycling company for disposal.
Glass waste
Glass waste is collected by the generating department and put into a white plastic bag in a bucket 3/4 full → sent by the property staff to the hospital room in a temporary storage bucket → sent by the property staff to the hospital room in a temporary storage → handed over to the recycling company for disposal.
Infectious waste
(1) Classified and collected by the production department and put into a leak-proof double yellow plastic bag 3/4 full → sent to the ward by the property staff to the temporary storage of leak-proof barrels → sent to the hospital by the property staff to the hospital, the temporary storage of the room → incineration.
(2) laboratory pathogens of culture media, specimens and strains of bacteria, toxin preservation fluid and other high-risk waste classification collection → pressure steam sterilization in the department → according to other infected waste disposal.
(3) The sputum of tuberculosis patients and sputum specimens after the examination of the Laboratory Department, polluted wastes, as well as the drainage fluid of patients in various departments, pleural and peritoneal fluid, etc. are collected by the generating departments in categories, and are contained in special buckets to prevent seepage → sent to the sputum room by the property staff → after boiling at high temperatures for 30 minutes or mixing of 2000mg/L chlorine-containing disinfectant for 30 minutes, the wastewater is discharged into the wastewater treatment system, and residue is treated according to other infected wastes. The residue is treated as household garbage.
Radioactive waste
(1) solid waste: collected by the generating department, put into a double anti-leakage, anti-proliferation red plastic bags, sealed with tape and stored in the storage room after 10 half-life, according to the infectious waste treatment.
(2) Liquid waste: after generation, it is discharged into the segregated cesspool by special pipeline, and after degradation, it is discharged into the hospital sewage treatment system.
Sharps
Including syringes, infusion needles, scalpels, scissors, lancets, thermometers, etc., classified and collected by the generating department → loaded into leak-proof, puncture-resistant special collection barrels → sent by the professional staff of the industry to the temporary storage room → transported by the recycling company to be disposed of.
Chemical waste
Radiology developer solution is discharged into the hospital sewage treatment system. The fixing solution is produced in leak-proof special drums and handed over to the recycling company for disposal. Chemical reagents and liquid waste from the Laboratory and Pathology Departments are discharged into the sewage system for treatment.
Pathological waste
Generated section classification collection → handed over to the field property staff → handed over to the mortuary management staff → registration signature → soak disinfection → General Affairs Section regularly sent to the funeral parlor cremation treatment.
Wastewater
Medical wastewater from the hospital sewage system into the sewage treatment station, the first precipitation and then add 25% sodium chlorite, 15% hydrochloric acid, 10% sodium hypochlorite and chlorine dioxide generator after the role of chlorine dioxide generated chlorine dioxide, wastewater treatment and discharge.
Transportation of medical waste
1Transportation personnel from the place of generation of medical waste every day will be classified and packaged `medical waste in accordance with the specified time and route, the collection of medical waste will be transported to the medical waste treatment to give the final disposal.
2 delivery personnel in the delivery of medical waste before, should check the packaging or container marking, labeling and sealing whether to meet the requirements, shall not meet the requirements of the medical waste transported to the disposal of the place; containing medical waste bags are yellow and marked, loaded to 3/4 full should be tightened when the bag mouth, replace the new bag.
3 transport personnel in the transportation of medical waste, should prevent packaging or container breakage and medical waste six is, leakage and diffusion, and prevent direct contact with the body of medical waste.
4 The use of medical waste special delivery trucks to transport medical waste, the daily delivery is completed, the delivery of the car in a timely manner to clean and disinfect.
5 Transportation of medical waste should be well personal protection, to avoid medical waste injury to the skin.
6 prohibit the transfer, sale and purchase of medical waste, prohibit the stacking of medical waste in the non-temporary storage place, prohibit the mixing of medical waste into other waste and domestic garbage.
7 In the event of medical waste loss, leakage, proliferation and accidents, it should be immediately reported to the head of the General Affairs Section and the head of the Hospital Infection Management Section.
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