Disinfection of Medical Devices
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.220103.055How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- disinfection; medical waste; healthcare waste; disinfection; E. coli
- Abstract
The problem of waste management of medical and preventive institutions (MPI) in the Russian Federation in modern conditions is considered as an important epidemiological and environmental component of the safety of the population of the country. Since 1979, the World Health Organization has classified medical waste as hazardous and recommended the creation of special services for their recycling. The Basel Convention in 1992 identified 45 types of hazardous waste, the list of which opens with “clinical” waste. The specificity of medical waste of MPI is associated with the presence of pathogenic microflora in them in one way or another. The content of microorganisms in them is 1000 times higher than in solid household waste, the total microbial number is significantly higher in them compared to household waste, pathogenic bacteria and viruses are detected. In addition to the bacteria of the E. coli and Proteus bacillus group, pathogens of viral infections, tuberculosis and anthrax are often found in the medical waste of MPI. Potentially infected waste is characterized by high polymorphism, so a wide variety of morphological composition, which can be represented by leftovers of food and packaging materials that have been in contact with infectious patients, used dressings, personal hygiene items, dishes and instruments for sampling, syringes, needles and so on.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - A.D. Strekalovskaya AU - O.V. Baranova AU - A.V. Rachinskih AU - A.A. Bakaev AU - E.A. Drozdova PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/17 TI - Disinfection of Medical Devices BT - Proceedings of the Conference on Health and Wellbeing in Modern Society (CHW 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 281 EP - 285 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.220103.055 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.220103.055 ID - Strekalovskaya2022 ER -