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Medical waste management North Miami Beach involves handling, transportation, treatment and disposal of waste generated during activities of hospitals, clinics, research laboratories, but also small medical facilities such as dentist offices, doctor’s offices and those not meant for treatment of human patients, but animals (veterinary clinics).
Because of its wide spectrum of generators, medical waste in North Miami Beach includes different materials, like needles, syringes and other sharps, body parts, chemicals and radioactive material. Without proper medical waste management there is a considerable risk of infections and disease to the community and the environment.
Fortunately, there are a number of methods that can be used to treat medical waste in North Miami Beacg and make it less dangerous (non-hazardous and non-infectious) to the public.
Gas Sterilization
Gas sterilization is not used as much as some other medical waste management methods (steam sterilization for one), but that is not to say it doesn’t have its uses. This method involves placing medical waste into and air-tight chamber and treating it with a sterilizing agent (like formaldehyde). The idea is that the gas, upon coming in contact with medical waste destroys any infectious agents.
Steam Sterilization
Steam sterilization, or simply autoclaving, is one of the most often used methods of medical waste management in North Miami Beach. This is because, in addition to steam’s ability to utterly destroy almost all types harmful microorganisms within the medical waste, autoclaving is also a very cost-effective method. The process is akin to gas sterilization in it that medical waste is also placed in an air-tight container. However, instead of “hitting” waste with formaldehyde or other gas, waste is exposed to a much safer steam.
Incineration
Incineration is still the most widely used medical waste management method in North Miami Beach, albeit this may not go for very long. This method is very simple, yet effective. Medical waste is put into large incinerator machines, where it is subjected to intense heat and turned to ash. Although there are obvious advantages of this (reducing the volume and disinfecting medical waste), incineration is also known to release mercury and other pollutants into the atmosphere.
Thermal Inactivation
This method is somewhat similar to incineration to the point they both use high temperature for medical waste management. However, there is a different purpose with thermal inactivation. This method is used to treat larger volumes of liquid medical waste by heating it to the point at which infectious agents are destroyed. This is done is a special chamber in which the waste is held for a certain period of time. Once the treatment is complete, waste is released and can be disposed of safely.
Microwaves
Treatment of North Miami Beach medical waste using microwaves begins with shredding the waste. After this, waste should be mixed with water and then internally heated to subdue biological agents. Finally, after this, it is subjected to microwaves.
