Healthcare Waste Management Quiz

<p>Biodegradable general waste (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Residual plastic from medical instruments (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>10-25% (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Catering services at healthcare facilities (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hospitals and medical centers (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Infectious waste (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pathological and anatomical waste (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ensure proper treatment and disposal of hazardous materials (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>High-income countries produce larger volumes of healthcare waste. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Syringes (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Medical and biomedical laboratories (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Treatment (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sharps (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Less implemented and poorly monitored (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Minimizing adverse health effects and environmental impacts (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>General waste (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mortuary and autopsy centers (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pathological and anatomical waste (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>General public (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Release of air pollutants (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Incineration (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contamination of groundwater (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Autoclaving (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sharp-influenced injuries (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chemical burns (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spread of antibiotic resistance (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Protection of patients and health workers (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Air pollution (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It must be toxic, corrosive, flammable, reactive, or oxidizing. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expired, split, and contaminated pharmaceutical products, drugs, vaccines, and sera. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Materials that pose a risk to the biological integrity of DNA or cells. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It ignites easily at normal working temperatures. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>X-ray film developing solutions. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Urine from patients undergoing treatment with cytotoxic drugs. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It can cause severe burns upon contact. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is safe to store under standard conditions. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Waste contaminated with radioactive materials like diagnostic or therapeutic radionuclides.

Waste that does not contain infectious agents, hazardous chemicals, or radioactive materials. It does not pose a risk to health or the environment.

Waste materials that can be processed and used again, such as paper, aluminum, and plastics.

Waste that decomposes naturally, like kitchen scraps, leftover food (from non-communicable disease patients), flowers, and garden waste.

General waste that is not recyclable or biodegradable. It's often incinerated or disposed of in landfills.

Any waste generated by activities related to human health, such as diagnosis, treatment, immunization, and research.

The process of handling and disposing of healthcare waste in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. This involves segregation, collection, storage, transportation, treatment, and disposal.

Healthcare waste is categorized into hazardous and non-hazardous. Hazardous waste includes infectious, toxic, and radioactive waste, while non-hazardous waste represents the majority and is generally safe.

Any waste containing microorganisms that can cause disease, including blood, sharps, and tissue specimens.

Substances that can harm living organisms, like chemicals used in treatments or cleaning.

It protects healthcare workers, patients, and the environment from potential hazards associated with healthcare waste. It also helps to comply with regulations and promotes sustainability.

Discarded chemicals used for diagnosing, experimenting, cleaning, housekeeping, and disinfecting.

Chemical waste is hazardous if it's toxic, corrosive, flammable, reactive, or oxidizing.

Waste that can cause severe burns, with a pH below 12.

Waste that ignites easily at normal temperatures, with a flashpoint below 37.8 °C.

Waste that reacts violently when exposed to heat, pressure, shock, friction, air, or water.

Expired, damaged, or contaminated medications, drugs, vaccines, and sera.

Waste that is toxic to DNA, potentially causing mutations.

Waste that is toxic to cells, potentially causing cell death.

Tissues, body fluids, organs removed during biopsies, autopsies, and surgeries.

Waste items that can cause cuts, pricks, or punctures, posing high risk of injury and infection.

Examples of Infectious Waste include cultures and stocks of infectious agents from laboratory work, wastes from surgeries and autopsies on patients with infectious diseases, wastes from infected patients in isolation wards, wastes that have been in contact with infected patients undergoing hemodialysis, infected animals from research laboratories, and other instruments or materials that have been in contact with infected persons or animals.

Internal organs and tissues for histopathological examination. Anatomical Body parts (like limbs) are usually from amputation procedures.

Needles, syringes, scalpels, saws, blades, broken glass, knives.

Hospitals, Clinics, Surgical Centers, Alternative Medicine Centers, Laboratories and research centers, Drug Manufacturers, Institutions like Drug Rehabilitation Centers, Training Centers for Embalmers etc., and Mortuary and autopsy centers.

Waste that may pose health and environmental risks.

Healthcare waste poses risks of injury or infection to individuals exposed, potentially spreading drug-resistant microorganisms and contaminating the environment.

People can be exposed to healthcare waste through chronic exposure (prolonged periods with small amounts) or acute exposure (short periods with large amounts).

Injuries caused by sharp objects like needles, scalpels, and broken glass found in healthcare waste.

Exposure to harmful substances like antibiotics, cytotoxic drugs, mercury, or dioxins present in healthcare waste.

Methods of handling healthcare waste include landfilling, chemical disinfection, and incineration, each with its own environmental risks and regulations.

Disposing of healthcare waste in landfills can contaminate drinking water, surface water, and groundwater, posing risks to human health.

Using disinfectants to treat healthcare waste can release harmful chemicals into the environment if not managed properly.

Burning healthcare waste at high temperatures to reduce volume and infectious agents, but can release pollutants if not controlled.

Properly managing healthcare waste protects patients, healthcare workers, and the public, ensuring compliance with regulations and preventing environmental damage.