BUMEDINST 6280.1C, MANAGEMENT OF REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE Flashcards
What’s the instruction for Management of Regulated Waste?
BUMEDINST 6280.1c
What’s the purpose of BUMEDINST 6280.1c Management of Regulated Waste?
To provide standards for management of regulated medical waste (RMW) generated from processes at Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) facilities prior treatment and disposal.
What is solid material intended for disposal which is produced as the direct result of non-infectious patient diagnosis, treatment, therapy, or medical research other than those characterized as RMW?
Non-regulated medical waste
What is generated during diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of humans or animals
and is capable of causing disease or would pose other adverse health risks to individuals or the
community if improperly handled?
Regulated Medical Waste
Regulated Medical Waste Group 1?
Cultures, stocks, and vaccines
Group 2
Pathological waste
Group 3
Blood and blood products
Group 4
Used Sharps
Group 5
Animal Waste (from animals exposed to infectious agents during research, production of biologicals, or testing of pharmaceuticals)
Group 6
Isolation Wastes (including bedding from patients or animals from BioSafety Level 4 (BSL 4) agents)
Group 7
Unused sharps
Group 8
Other (including fluids that are designated by the local infection control authority)
Group 9
Chemotherapy Trace Wastes
What is animal waste
This category is specific to infectious animals, contaminated animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding of animals known to have been exposed to infectious agents during treatment, research, productions of biologicals, or testing of pharmaceuticals.
Which is designed to minimize exposure of workers and the environment to infectious agents?
Bio Safety Level
How many Biosafety Level are there?
There are four levels (1-4)
What is the most stringent and applies for work with dangerous and exotic agents that pose a high individual risk of life threatening diseases, which may be transmitted via the aerosol route and for which there is no available vaccine or therapy.
Bio Safety Level 4.
Free-flowing liquid human blood, plasma, serum, and other
blood derivatives (e.g., blood in blood bags or bloody drainage in suction containers); absorbent
materials soaked or dripping with blood; and items caked with dried blood, capable of releasing
blood if handled.
Blood and blood products
Infectious agents and associated biologicals, including those from medical and pathological laboratories, as well as dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures.
Cultures and stocks
Waste that qualifies as both a RMW and hazardous waste (HW). Examples may include a syringe used to administer a medication that classifies as a pharmaceutical HW or
dental amalgam waste.
Dual Waste.
A HW is a solid waste (SW), or combination of SW, which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may (a) cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness or (b) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human
health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise
managed.
Hazardous Waste.