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Jeremy Williford posted a reply on Re: Disposal of labeled specimen collection dev...
Thursday, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:01 AM
Said: : "We do not remove the labels before tossing them. The sharps and biohazard trash will be incinerated anyway.
Jeremy Williford, PBT (ASCP)
Point of Care Support Specialist, Clin...
Deborah Wesolowski posted a reply on Re: Disposal of labeled specimen collection dev...
Thursday, Apr 6, 2017 at 6:32 AM
Said: : "We also put our labeled specimens in a sharps container. To take the label off of each sample before disposing would not only take a long time, but then you are placing contaminated labels in a confidential bin to be destroyed. That doe...
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James Beck posted a reply on Re: Disposal of labeled specimen collection dev...
Wednesday, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:17 PM
Said: : "Good question. I guess I have always assumed that our offsite waste handlers are handling sharps contents with the same patient confidentiality guidelines as non-sharp biohazardous waste - but I have never really asked. Since a sharps c...
Shana Gaug posted a new Topic
Wednesday, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:01 PM
Disposal of labeled specimen collection devices
: "Aloha all,
A question came up regarding disposing labeled specimen collection devices in sharps. There was mixed answers indicating that we should pull the label before we drop it in the sharps. We have always trained our staff to dispose their labeled collection devices into the sharps because it proves that those devices were labeled. The ..."
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