Agenda

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Friday, March 11, 2022
9:00 am – 12:15 pm CST (incl. a 15-min break)

 

Presented by:
Dr. Kumar Kanti

Agenda
Medical Waste Identification and Profile
Categories of infectious waste
• Common municipal wastes
• Deceptive/innocuous hazardous wastes
• Items of routine usage (not wastes)
Common infectious wastes
• Global variations in classification of infectious wastes
• Isolation waste
• Cultures, stocks and associated biologicals
• Human blood and blood products
• Pathological waste
• Used sharps
• Contaminated animal carcasses
• Unused sharps
Hospital/medical waste identification and profile
• General waste
– Paper, plastics
• Infectious waste
– Linens, clothing, food waste, body fluids
• Hazardous waste
– Chemotherapy and antineoplastic chemicals
– Formaldehyde
– Photographic chemicals
Medical waste minimization options
• Segregation of individual waste streams
• Management and control practices
Waste management for COVID-19 pandemic
• COVID-19-waste (C-19-waste) in the United States, Spain, Italy,
South Korea and other countries
• Interim guidance from WHO and CDC to cope with the
massive increase in C-19 waste
• Guidance on safe handling of COVID patients for health care staff
and other areas of the hospital/facility
• Protocols to safely operate a duplex facility – (a) the COVID patients
in one area and (b) routine and emergency health care patients in another/area
• Handling, disinfection and disposal of C19-waste – massive vaccination,
sampling and testing
Global vaccines, testing and related wastes
• Wates types, issues
• Vaccine types (CDC/WHO)
• Cross infections
Medical waste treatment technologies
• Autoclave treatment
• Short wave RF treatment
• Chemical/mechanical treatment
• Microwave treatment
Key factors for effective treatment
• Segregation
• On-site vs. off-site considerations
Emission control and best management practices (BMPs)

 

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