A monitoring work was carried out in October 2006 in one large health care facility located in Palermo. The monitoring consisted in weighing infectious waste containers filled in some Departments purposely chosen. As a second stage of the work a comparison was attempted between the results obtained from the waste production monitoring and the archive data recorded in the same time. A restricted list of purchased products out of the general one was extracted. Such list allows one to calculate approximately the mass of medical devices purchased and their composition. To these materials a reasonable change in humidity after use was attributed. It was possible in this deductive way to draw a probable composition of health care waste materials, which is forbidden to ascertain by direct inspection.

Lanza, P.A., Lima, A., Nicosia, S. (2008). Health Care Waste production: measures and estimates in Joint Hospitals “Civico e Benfratelli, Ascoli e Di Cristina”, Palermo, Italy.. In ECOMONDO - Atti dei Seminari (pp.282-287). Santarcangelo di Romagna : Maggioli.

Health Care Waste production: measures and estimates in Joint Hospitals “Civico e Benfratelli, Ascoli e Di Cristina”, Palermo, Italy.

LANZA, Placido Alfredo;NICOSIA, Salvatore
2008-01-01

Abstract

A monitoring work was carried out in October 2006 in one large health care facility located in Palermo. The monitoring consisted in weighing infectious waste containers filled in some Departments purposely chosen. As a second stage of the work a comparison was attempted between the results obtained from the waste production monitoring and the archive data recorded in the same time. A restricted list of purchased products out of the general one was extracted. Such list allows one to calculate approximately the mass of medical devices purchased and their composition. To these materials a reasonable change in humidity after use was attributed. It was possible in this deductive way to draw a probable composition of health care waste materials, which is forbidden to ascertain by direct inspection.
Settore ICAR/03 - Ingegneria Sanitaria-Ambientale
nov-2008
Ecomondo 2008
Rimini
5-8 novembre
2008
614
Lanza, P.A., Lima, A., Nicosia, S. (2008). Health Care Waste production: measures and estimates in Joint Hospitals “Civico e Benfratelli, Ascoli e Di Cristina”, Palermo, Italy.. In ECOMONDO - Atti dei Seminari (pp.282-287). Santarcangelo di Romagna : Maggioli.
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Lanza, PA; Lima, A; Nicosia, S.
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