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Effective: <br />1112004 <br />Reviewed: <br />01120/3 <br />Last Revised: <br />01120/3 <br />Expiration: <br />0112016 <br />Owner: <br />Mark Wallace: Director <br />Policy Area: <br />Environment n/Care <br />References: <br />MEDICAL WASTE that may be generated or handled at a Lodi Memorial Hospital facility consists of <br />biohazardous waste, sharps waste, and pharmaceutical waste. These wastes result from patient diagnosis or <br />treatment where blood and certain body fluids or other contaminates exist. Trauma scene waste may be <br />collected at times when ambulance service providers and other emergency responders deliver patients for <br />medical attention. Medical wastes are defined under the Medical Waste Management Act(K4VVMA).Ce|iforniu <br />Health and Safety Code Sections 1170UO'1183G0. <br />��= <br />���oza <br />• Laboratory Waste: Laboratory waste includes, but not limited to, all of the following: <br />1 . Human or animal specimen cultures from medical and pathology laboratories. <br />2. Cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories. <br />3. Wastes from the production of bacteria, viruses, spores, discarded live and attenuated vaccines used <br />in human health ^ care nrresearch, diynanded animal vaccines, including Brucellosis and Contagious <br />Ecthyma, as identified by the department, and culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, <br />and mix cultures. <br />^ Pathology Waste: — Lodi Memorial Hospital does not generate pathology waste. <br />Human surgery specimens or tissues removed at surgery or autopsy, which are suspected by the <br />attending physician and surgeon or dentist of being contaminated with infectious agents known to be <br />contagious tohumans. <br />` Blood or Body Fluids: <br />Waste, which at the point of transport from the generator's site, at the point of disposal, or thereafter, <br />contains recognizable fluid b|ood, fluid blood pnoduda, containers o/equipment containing blood that ia <br />0uid, orblood from animals known to be infected with diseases which are highly communicable to <br />humans. <br />^ Isolation Waste <br />Waste containing discarded materials contaminated with excretion, exudate, or secretions from humans <br />or animals that are required to be isolated by the Infection Control staff, the attending physician and <br />surgeon, the attending veterinarian, or the local health officer, to protect others from highly communicable <br />diseases or diseases of animals that are highly communicabzardousle to humans. (MWMA — Section <br />117635) <br />Medical Waste Definitions byType, o-8*z0-n .ux^ieved01//3/2016.omcacopvat http://Iodihealtli.policystat.com/policy/750894/. Page of <br />