What kind of medical waste that pathology department produce?
What are the main contents and processes of the pathology department? The pathology department's work includes biopsy, exfoliative cytology, intraoperative frozen section, immunohistochemistry, and molecular pathology. These tests are used to determine the nature of the disease, whether it is an inflammatory lesion or a tumorous lesion, what type of tissue, what kind of inflammation, whether it is a benign tumor or a malignant tumor, the degree of malignancy of the tumor, and whether there is tumor metastasis. The inspection of pathological specimens is roughly divided into two types: 1. Rapid freezing pathology (the surgeon takes a piece of diseased tissue on the operating table and hands it to the pathologist, and the pathologist will make the tissue into slices that can be viewed under a microscope within 30 minutes. An interim report will be issued to guide the surgeon. The remaining tissue will still be made into the routine external examination film mentioned below for further verification or other examinations); 2. It is a routine external examination, and the specimen must undergo 1-2 days of blessing. After being fixed in formalin solution, after a series of treatments, slices were made and observed under a microscope.
So what are the medical wastes produced by the pathology department?
1. Pathological waste
After the human tissue of the sent patient is selected by the doctor for extraction, most part it will be discarded.
Treatment soluation: Put directly into the medical trash bag and medical trash can with lid.
2. Chemical waste
The pathology department needs to use formalin and xylene for biopsy specimens, which will produce chemical waste.
Treatment soluation: Collected in a specific container, covered and sealed, and handed over to a specialized processing agency for disposal.
3. Sharps waste
Glass slices are used for slicing specimens, and discarded specimens will produce glass waste. The blades of the microtome need to be replaced regularly, resulting in sharp discarded blades.
Treatment soluation: Put into special sharps contianer, lock lid when contianer is full.
