دورية أكاديمية
A review on medical waste treatment in COVID-19 pandemics: Technologies, managements and future strategies
| العنوان: | A review on medical waste treatment in COVID-19 pandemics: Technologies, managements and future strategies |
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| المؤلفون: | Raynard Christianson Sanito, Dwi Rasy Mujiyanti, Sheng-Jie You, Ya-Fen Wang |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Molecular Biology, Cancer, Science Policy, Infectious Diseases, Virology, Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified, namely face masks, last 3 yr, current issues related, specific medical waste, major concern associated, new pandemic near, especially conventional technologies, review presented information, potential outbreak pandemic, new viruses near, new mutation viruses, medical waste treatment, handling medical waste, review also describes, future ., medical waste, mutation near, new viruses, pandemic situation, medical wastes, environmental issues, also information, experience associated |
| الوصف: | Since the outbreak of COVID-19 few years ago, the increasing of the number of medical waste has become a huge issue because of their harmful impact to environment. A major concern associated to the limitation of technologies for dealing with medical waste, especially conventional technologies, are overcapacities since pandemic occurs. Moreover, the outbreak of new viruses from post COVID-19 should become a serious attention to be prevented not only environmental issues but also the spreading of viruses to new pandemic near the future. The high possibility of an outbreak of new viruses and mutation near the future should be prevented based on the experience associated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last 3 yr. This review presented information and strategies for handling medical waste during the outbreak of COVID-19 and post-COVID-19, and also information on the current issues related to technologies, such as incineration, pyrolysis/gasification, autoclaves and microwave treatment for the dealing with high numbers of medical waste in COVID-19 to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus, their advantages and disadvantages. Plasma technology can be considered to be implemented as an alternative technology to deal with medical waste since incinerator is usually over capacities during the pandemic situation. Proper treatment of specific medical waste in pandemics, namely face masks, vaccine vials, syringes, and dead bodies, are necessary because those medical wastes are mediums for transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Furthermore, emission controls from incinerator and plasma are necessary to be implemented to reduce the high concentration of CO 2 , NO x , and VOCs during the treatment. Finally, future strategies of medical waste treatment in the perspective of potential outbreak pandemic from new mutation viruses are discussed in this review paper. Implications: Journal of the air and waste management association may consider our review paper to be published. In this review, we give important information ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/A_review_on_medical_waste_treatment_in_COVID-19_pandemics_Technologies_managements_and_future_strategies/24552414Test |
| DOI: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.24552414.v1 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24552414.v1Test https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/A_review_on_medical_waste_treatment_in_COVID-19_pandemics_Technologies_managements_and_future_strategies/24552414Test |
| حقوق: | CC BY 4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.57D10E38 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.24552414.v1 |
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