Hazard in Medical Laboratory

Question 1

Vital role of a laboratory

Answer 1

• confirming provisional diagnosis of the clinician
• rulling out diagnosis
• detecting disease
• regulating therapy

Question 2

Hazard in the lab

Answer 2

IC, BET!
- infection
- burns
- cut and prick
- toxic chemical
- electric shock

Question 3

The example of infection and safety against it

Answer 3

• inhalation
• ingestion

Safety
- wear protective clothes
- handle specimen with cares
- avoid consume food in lab
- nothing should be pipette with mouth
- process specimens in safety cabinet
- pour spilled material in case of any spillage

Question 4

The commitment of Biosafety Level (BSL)

Answer 4

• BSL: 1
  For lab in which work is done with well define and characterized organism not known to cause disease in healthy adult human e. g.: E. Coli. Bastille subtilis.
• BSL: 2
  For lab with moderate risk agents present in community and associated with human disease of varying severity. E. g: HBV, Salmonella, Toxoplasmosis.
  (Use gloves, safety cabinet class I or II)
• BSL: 3
  Is in laboratory with agents that are associated with risk and serious fatal aerosol infection (MTB, Brucellosis, HIV). Properly maintain biological safety cabinet class II and III should be used.
• BSL: 4
  Applied to work with dangerous and exotic agents which pose a high risk of life threatening disease to individuals. (Ebola virus, Lassa Virus, Monkeypox)