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Health care waste management Flashcards

1
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Waste suspected to contain pathogens or toxins in sufficient concentration that may cause disease to a susceptible host

A

Infectious Waste

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Tissue sections or organs from biopsy, autopsy, or surgery waste

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Pathological and Anatomical Waste

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3
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Items that can cause cuts, pricks, or puncture wounds

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Sharps

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4
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Most dangerous health care waste

A

Sharps

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5
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Discarded chemicals during disinfection and sterilization

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Chemical Waste

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Expired, spilt, and contaminated pharmaceutical products, drugs, and vaccines

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Pharmaceutical Waste

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Wastes exposed to radionuclides

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Radioactive Waste

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Wastes that haven’t been in contact with communicable or infectious agents, hazardous chemicals or radioactive substances

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Non-hazardous or General Waste

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9
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Why should highly infectious waste be disinfected at the source

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To prevent further contamination of other objects while transporting the waste

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10
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How should Anatomical waste be disposed

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Safe burial or Cremation

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What should be done to pathological waste if it is not collected or treated within 24 hours

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Refrigerated

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12
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An engineered site designed to keep waste isolated from the environment; must secure permit from DENR

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Landfill

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13
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Enumerate the chain of infection, in order

A 
Infectious Agent
Reservoir
Exit Pathway
Means of Transportation
Entry Pathway
Susceptible Host
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14
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What waste category can aerosol waste fall into

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Non-hazardous or General Waste

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15
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Treatment of health care waste by thermal decomposition

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Pyrolysis

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16
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A waste treatment machine that uses steam under pressure to kill pathogens on items that are placed inside a pressure vessel.

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Autoclave

17
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Treatment of health care waste by using enzyme mixtures to decontaminate the substance

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Biological process

18
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Treatment of health care waste that involves filling of containers then sealing

A

Ecapsulation

19
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Treatment of health care waste that involves the mixing of waste with cement and other substances for pharmaceutical waste

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Inertization

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