BUMEDINST 6280.1B management of regulated medical waste Flashcards
are personal hygiene products considered RMW?
no
are absorbent materials containing small amounts of blood or other fluids considered RMW?
no
What are the nine RMW groups?
Group 1: Cultures, stocks and vaccines Group 2: Pathological Waste Group 3: blood and blood products Group 4: Sharps Group 5: Animal Waste (from exposed animals) Group 6: Isolation wastes Group 7: Sharps Group 8: Other Group 9: Chemotherapy trace wastes
What is the RMW group 1?
Cultures, stocks, and vaccines
What is the RMW group 2?
pathological waste
What is the RMW group 3?
Blood and blood products
What is the RMW group 4?
sharps
What is the RMW group 5?
animal wastes
What is the RMW group 6?
isolation wastes
What is the RMW group 7?
sharps
What is the RMW group 8?
other
What is the RMW group 9?
chemotherapy trace wastes
what is considered a sufficient thickness for plastic bags used to collect RMW?
3mm
Storage of non-pathological RMW shall not exceed how long?
7 days
Pathological wastes not immediately processed for treatment and disposal must be refrigerated and must be frozen if stored for greater than how long?
24 hours
frozen storage of pathological RMW shall not exceed how long?
30 days
what are the two methods of disposal for group 1 liquid wastes?
- steam sterilized and disposed of in the sanitary sewer system. 2. kept in original glass containers and placed in sharps containers for treatment and disposal via the sharps procedure.
What should you do with full vials of vaccines that need to be disposed of?
return them to pharmacy for vendor return
How should nasal mist vaccine dispenser be dispossessed?
non-sharps RMW containers
Group 2 pathological waste examples include what 5 human wastes?
- tissues 2. organs 3. body parts 4. extracted human teeth 5. body fluids removed during surgery or autopsy
Unless prohibited by local, state, or host nation laws, how will bulk blood be disposed?
via the sanitary sewer
remove and seal sharps containers when they are ___ full .
3/4
Do carcasses of road kills, euthanized animals, or animals dying of natural causes fall into group 5?
no
what are examples of group 5 animal waste?
contaminated animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding of animals known to have been exposed to infections agent during research.
what are some examples of group 8 other?
seamen vaginal recreations cerebrospinal fluid pleural fluid
Normally, what color or chemotherapeutic trace wastes containers?
yellow
Federal regulations require facilities maintain shipping paperwork for how long after the RMW was accepted by the waste carrier?
2 years
