We package ours up to be incinerated. Not so much because of biohazards, but
our patient's names are on all the slides.
Thanks,
Wanda
WANDA G. SMITH, HTL(ASCP)HT
Pathology Supervisor
TRIDENT MEDICAL CENTER
9330 Medical Plaza Drive
Charleston, SC 29406
843-847-4586
843-847-4296 fax
This
Thank you Joyce -
The SlydEater pulverizes the glass slide and obliterates the label
affixed to the slide. Units are available for both short term and
long term rentals, as well as Least to Own.
If interested, visit our website at:
http://www.SlydEater.com
or by calling me directly at 800-2
we treat with SHARPS + Biological Hazardous
2009-03-12
TF
发件人： Mike Pence
发送时间： 2009-03-11 21:29:29
收件人： Sharon Campbell; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
抄送：
主题： RE: [Histonet] slide disposal
All of our slides are put into buckets and placed in the regular
dumpster as long as
We use the same company that takes away our alcohol waste. They pulverize
the slides for us. There is a company in WI that makes a Slydeater that you
can rent for one month to pulverize your slides. I am looking into that
aspect.
Joyce Cline, H.T. (ASCP)
Technical Specialist
Hagerstown Medical Lab
Old slides, after all the processing they have "endured" are not hazardous
(from the contagious/disease point of view) any more.
They are hazardous from the mechanical (potential physical injury point of
view) and it is more than enough to dispose of them in sharps containers.
Word of caution, ju
We have a "broken glass" waste container we put ours in for pick up and
disposal (don't deal with non-animal patients, so not an issue).
-M
--On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:56 AM -0400 Sharon Campbell
wrote:
Hi everyone!
Thank you for all the great responses to my last question about meta
All of our slides are put into buckets and placed in the regular
dumpster as long as there is no patient names on the slides. We don't
even treat them as "sharps".
Mike
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