How to deal with medical waste in hospitals
I. Infectious waste
1, infectious waste refers to medical waste that carries pathogenic microorganisms and has the risk of causing the spread of infectious diseases. Including articles contaminated by patients' blood, body fluids and excreta (cotton balls, cotton swabs, gauze and other dressings, disposable medical supplies, disposable sanitary products, etc.). ), all kinds of discarded medical specimens, blood, serum, pathogen culture medium, strains, domestic garbage of isolated infected patients, etc. After the above-mentioned wastes are generated, they are packed into clearly marked medical garbage bags, which are collected by special garbage bags for leakage prevention and spillage prevention to the temporary storage point of hospital medical wastes, and centralized treatment is carried out by the medical waste disposal units designated by this Municipality.
Second, pathological waste.
Refers to human excreta and medical experimental animal carcasses produced in the process of diagnosis and treatment. Including discarded human tissues and organs produced during surgery or other diagnosis and treatment, discarded human tissues after pathological sections, pathological wax blocks, tissues and corpses of medical experimental animals, etc.
Small pieces of this kind of garbage can be treated as infectious garbage, and large pieces or large pieces of pathological garbage can be sent to the funeral home for incineration.
Three. hazardous waste
Refers to the abandoned medical sharp instrument that can stab or cut the human body. Including medical needles, suture needles, scalpels, scalpels, surgical saws, glass slides, glass test tubes, glass ampoules, disposable empty needles, infusion sets, needle parts for blood transfusion, etc.
This kind of garbage should be put into stab-proof and leak-proof hard containers immediately after it is produced, and then put into clearly marked medical garbage bags, which will be collected by special personnel at the temporary storage point of medical garbage in the hospital regularly, and then centralized treatment will be carried out by the medical garbage disposal unit designated by this Municipality. Disposable syringe, infusion tube, etc. It needs to be destroyed before being discarded to avoid being reused.
Four. Pharmaceutical waste
Refers to expired, eliminated, deteriorated or contaminated waste drugs. Including general antibiotics, over-the-counter drugs, cytotoxic drugs, genotoxic drugs, vaccines, blood products, etc.
Discarded drugs should be managed by the pharmacy, stored in the unqualified drug area, reported to the drug supervision department in time, and treated according to the opinions of the drug supervision and management department, and the treatment process should be recorded in detail.