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Today, everybody is at risk, or fears contracting an infectious disease, such as HIV, hepatitis, or just a cold. This risk is further increased if our healthcare facilities don’t include proper Miami Beach medical waste management methods and techniques in their every day work.
Bio-hazardous medical waste has become a great issue in our society. Such waste can best be defined as something hazardous that can be dangerous to life, be it human or animal. Therefore, it is no wonder that people today are at risk, or are fearing contracting different types of infectious diseases, such as HIV or hepatitis. The risk and reality is even more elevated because of biohazardous waste.
Improper bio-hazardous waste management can have a profound negative effect on animal and plant life. In addition, it can also pollute water, air and the soil. This, of course can happen sooner rather than later especially if we don’t remove and dispose the bio-hazardous waste that we generate according to the laws, regulations and procedures issued by the state and federal governments.
Certain waste products, such as liquids (chemicals or blood fluids), toxic fumes and solid waste pose a great problem. Exposing any of these materials to the environment can create catastrophic effects. For example, toxic fumes can have an adverse effect on the living environment of all life and can even cause acid rain.
Human blood and blood product is also regarded as contaminated medical waste, especially with HIV and AIDS always being a threat to us. As such, it is little wonder that there is a considerable fear of contracting one such disease via contact with already infected blood.
Sharps are medical waste products that include both used and unused needles (hypodermic, with tubing, etc,), blades (razors, scalpels), pipettes and other similar material. All of it can be contaminated with infected blood.
Other types of bio-hazardous waste include:
• Pathological waste: body fluids, organs and tissues
• Contact waste: sponges, gloves, dressings and anything else like it used in surgical procedures
• Isolation wastes: regulated materials surrounding the patient with a catching disease
One of the problems regarding medical waste management lies in the potential contamination of employees. Cleaning service personnel is especially at risk of sharps if they are not adequately trained about such waste. Also, there are common instances of bio-hazardous waste disposal outside the designated landfills. For instance, it is not unheard of that a child or an animal finds a needle on the beach.
Once we define bio-hazardous medical waste management and it’s best techniques and methods, we can start moving on to regulations and standards and finally to solutions. Of course, as bio-hazardous waste disposal costs about ten times as disposal of regular solid waste, there is also the financial problem that health care facilities have to deal with here.
Implementing standards for appropriate Miami Beach medical waste management is important if we are to prevent all of the problems created by bio-hazardous waste.
