Risk Factors for Persistent Carriage of MRSA

The main advantage of this apparatus is the treatment of contaminated materials inside hospital wards, at the point of initial collection, by nonspecialized staff. As it works without grinding, no potentially infectious particles are suspended in the air during the treatment The pancakes produced are solid and easy to manipulate. After treatment, waste can be eliminated as household rubbish in classic incinerators. The cost of this final treatment is much lower than the cost of incineration of infectious waste. Finally, this apparatus is both a waste disinfection and disposal system that avoids hazardous transport from the point of initial collection to the incinerator. Nevertheless, it is necessary to promote separation between contaminated and nonhazardous hospital waste that requires no special handling and disposal. It would be helpful to implement a program for reducing biomedical waste, including reviewing waste practices, educating staff, and redefining infectious waste (the small proportion of medical waste that could potentially transmit an infectious disease).

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