Medical Waste Disposal

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Medical Waste Disposal

• 4-H Veterinary Science
• Extension Veterinary Medicine 
• Texas AgriLife Extension Service
• College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical
  Science
• Texas AM System
• http//aevm.tamu.edu

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Objectives

• Understand that surveillance of medical waste
  disposal reduces the hazards of diseases and
  injuries
• Understand that proper disposal of blood, tissue
  and sharps reduces environmental hazards and
  animal and human dangers

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Types of Medical Waste

• Sharps
• Vaccines
• Cultures
• Animal waste

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• Sharps
• Hypodermic needles
• Syringes
• Tubing
• Scalpels
• Blades
• Suture needles

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• Sharps disposal
• Container
• Rigid
• Unbreakable
• Puncture resistant
• Leak resistant
• Easily sealed
• Marked with bio-hazard symbol

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• Vaccines
• Vials
• Modified live vaccines
• Live vaccines

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• Cultures
• Growth media
• Contain organisms

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• Animal waste
• Carcasses
• Tissues
• Urine
• Feces
• Blood

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Regulations

• Federal Medical Waste Tracking Act 1988
• EPA
• State DSHS