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Proper Waste and Linen Segregation & Disposal by Container Type SURGICAL PAVILIONMON, . sem, OFF I � — i Biohazardous Sharps Waste-Red Sharps Waste- Red Pharmaceutical Hazardous Infectious Linen-Yellow Soiled Linen-White Bag Waste-Red Bag Sharps Container Sharps Container Waste- Pharmaceuticals—Black Bag Blue Container Container ❑ Blood tubing/ ❑ All sharps ❑ Trocars, ❑ IV bags and ❑ Inhalers with residual bags/hemovacs Example: introducers,guide tubing with ❑ Any medication under Hamper-style Hamper-style /pleurevacs needles,lancets, wires,sharps from residual pressure accumulation container accumulation container ❑ Soaked/ needle counters, procedures, medication ❑ Unused or partially dripping broken glass specimen devices in used nicotine gum or ❑ Infectious linens from ❑ Soiled,non-infectious bloody vials,broken endoscopy,etc Use: IV bags with patches patient isolation rooms linens dressings ampules,blades, non-narcotic ❑ Nitroglycerine tablets (Strict,Contact,AFB, ❑ Intact glass or scalpels,razors, ❑ All sharps medication are ❑ Warfarin or Coumadin and Respiratory plastic bottles pins, clips,staples Example:needles, placed in a zip-lock ❑ Gaseous anesthetics Isolation for Viruses) with bloody lancets,needle bag and then placed ❑ Bulk chemotherapy ❑ Linens heavily soiled fluid or OPIM; ❑ Trocars, counters, broken in blue bin. ❑ Epinephrine with stool,blood or with little risk introducers,guide glass vials,broken ❑ Barium drainage from of breakage. wires,sharps from ampoules, blades, Use: Plain IV ❑ Birth control pills with precautions rooms. ❑ Suction liners procedures,sharp scalpels,razors, solutions(no estrogen or estradiol with bloody specimen devices pins, clips,staples additives)and ❑ Zinc oxide fluid or OPIM in endoscopy,etc. electrolyte solutions ❑ Silver nitrate ❑ All disposable are to be emptied ❑ X-ray contrast media items soaked, Note: Do not place into the sink. ❑ Insulin dripping or containers of Example:saline, ❑ Oxytocin/Pitocin caked with "recognizable fluid dextrose,glucose, ❑ Any>24%alcohol blood or OPIM blood"into 2 or 4-gal electrolytes,lactated ❑ Povidone-iodine =Z Note: sharps containers. ringers. ❑ Hydrogen peroxide T1 C , OPIM=Other Potentially Note: For large items, L Infectious Material use the 8 or 17-gal Use: Do not place in the n Z l� sharps container with blue pharmaceutical Note: No sharps foot pedal activated waste container. m 0 or potential sharps lid. Z items. i i ■ t