How to deal with medical waste in hospitals
One, infectious waste
1, infectious waste refers to carry pathogenic microorganisms, with the risk of infectious diseases caused by the spread of medical waste. Including the patient's blood, body fluids, excreta contaminated items (cotton balls, swabs, gauze and other dressings, single-use medical supplies, single-use hygiene products, etc.), a variety of discarded medical specimens, blood, serum, pathogens of the culture medium, strains, isolation of infectious diseases, such as living garbage. The above wastes are put into a clearly marked medical waste bags, by a person regularly, fixed route with leak-proof, spill-proof special garbage cans collected to the hospital's medical waste storage point, and then by the city's designated medical waste disposal unit centralized treatment.
Two, pathological waste
is the diagnosis and treatment process of human waste and medical laboratory animal carcasses. Including surgery or other diagnosis and treatment process of human tissue, organs, pathological section of human tissue, pathological wax block, medical laboratory animal tissue, carcasses and so on.
This category of waste, small pieces can be treated as infectious waste, larger or large pieces of pathological waste should be sent to the funeral parlor incineration.
Three, injurious waste
This refers to the ability to stab or cut the human body of discarded medical sharps. Including medical needles, suture needles, scalpels, scalpels, skin preparation knife, surgical saws, slides, glass test tubes, glass ampoules and disposable use of empty needles, infusion sets, blood transfusion needle part.
This type of waste should be put into a puncture-proof, leak-proof hard container immediately after the generation of waste, and then put into a clearly marked medical waste bag, collected by a person regularly in the hospital medical waste temporary storage point, and then by the city's designated medical waste disposal unit centralized treatment. Disposable syringes, infusion tubes, etc. are required to be disfigured before disposal to avoid being reused.
Four, pharmaceutical waste
This refers to the expiration date, elimination, deterioration or contamination of the discarded drugs. Including general antibiotics, over-the-counter drugs, cytotoxic drugs, genotoxic drugs, vaccines, blood products and so on.
The discarded drugs should be managed by the pharmacy with specialized personnel, deposited in the unqualified drug area, reported to the drug administration in a timely manner, and handled in accordance with the views of the drug regulatory authorities, the processing should be recorded in detail.