Catalogue items from 1 total knee arthroplasty
| Waste | Units |
|---|---|
| Plastics | |
| 1000 mL bag (empty) of Ringer’s lactate solution | 1 |
| 2% chlorhexidine antiseptic solution bottle (empty) | 1 |
| 20 mL Luer Lock syringe | 2 |
| 50 mL antibiotic fluid bag (empty) | 1 |
| 500 mL bag (empty) of NaCl solution | 1 |
| Cement mixing stick | 1 |
| Cement mixing system and tubing | 1 |
| Cement mixing system gun | 1 |
| Cement powder bags | 2 |
| Face shield | 2 |
| Facial oxygen mask with tubing | 1 |
| Glove liners | 2 |
| Marking pen | 2 |
| Moulded inner packaging for joint prosthesis | 8 |
| Sterile light handle covers | 2 |
| Tubing | 1 |
| Vicryl suture pack | 9 |
| Wrapper (outer) for surgical gloves | 23 |
| Wrapper for 1 L Tis-U-Sol container | 1 |
| Wrapper for 1000 mL bag of Ringer’s lactate solution | 1 |
| Wrapper for 20 mL Luer Lock syringe | 2 |
| Wrapper for 500 mL bag of NaCl solution | 2 |
| Wrapper for cast padding | 1 |
| Wrapper for Cement Erythromycin Kit | 2 |
| Wrapper for cement mixing system | 1 |
| Wrapper for disposable surgical gown with inner paper | 4 |
| Wrapper for elastic bandage | 1 |
| Wrapper for filter straw | 1 |
| Wrapper for flat epidural | 1 |
| Wrapper for glove liners | 4 |
| Wrapper for hypodermic needle | 1 |
| Wrapper for jet lavage tip | 1 |
| Wrapper for limb positioning device | 1 |
| Wrapper for marking pen | 1 |
| Wrapper for saw blade | 1 |
| Wrapper for skin stapler | 1 |
| Wrapper for sterile knee pack | 1 |
| Wrapper for sterile light handle covers | 1 |
| Wrapper for stockinette | 1 |
| Wrapper for suction irrigator | 1 |
| Wrapper for suction irrigator tip | 1 |
| Wrapper for syringe | 1 |
| Wrapper for tourniquet | 2 |
| Wrapper for U-drape | 1 |
| Wrapper for surgical air warming blanket | 1 |
| Wrapper for Webril | 1 |
| Wrapper for wound drain | 1 |
| Laundry | |
| Bed sheet | 7 |
| Gortex sheet | 4 |
| Green sterile towel | 31 |
| Small unsterile towel | 1 |
| Surgical gown | 1 |
| Paper/cardboard | |
| Cardboard box with paper manual for Cement Erythromycin Kit | 2 |
| Cardboard box with paper manual for joint spacer (articular insert) | 1 |
| Miscellaneous paper | 5 |
| Wrapper (inner) for surgical gloves | 23 |
| Biohazard waste | |
| 12” × 12” sponge | 7 |
| 2250 mL suction fluids (filled) | 1 |
| 8” × 4” gauze | 6 |
| Electrocautery and suction irrigator with tubing | 1 |
| NaCl bag and tubing | 1 |
| General nonrecyclable waste | |
| Adhesive backings | 5 |
| Blue sterile wrap | 1 |
| Bulb syringe (for irrigation) | 1 |
| Disposable surgical gown | 4 |
| Elastocrepe dressing | 1 |
| Excess cement (mixed and activated) | — |
| Extremity drape | 1 |
| Foley catheter kit | 1 |
| Gauze pads | 5 |
| Gauze roll | 1 |
| Mayo stand cover | 1 |
| Miscellaneous tips | 2 |
| Shoe cover | 1 |
| Spinal anesthesia kit | 1 |
| Sterile surgical gloves | 46 |
| Stockinette | 1 |
| Surgical air warming blanket | 1 |
| Surgical face mask | 3 |
| Table cover | 3 |
| U-drape | 1 |
| Virox wipe | 2 |
| Recyclables | |
| Moulded inner packaging for joint prosthesis | 3 |
| Tis-U-Sol 1 L container | 1 |
| Irrigation tubing container | 1 |
| Sharps | |
| Bovie tip | 1 |
| Drain trochar | 1 |
| Glass vial | 6 |
| Needle | 12 |
| Needle tip | 5 |
| Red sharps container | 1 |
| Scalpel blades | 3 |
| Stapler | 1 |
| Suture needles | 13 |
| Syringe | 4 |
| Sterile blue wrap | |
| Extra-large | 5 |
| Large | 5 |
| Medium | 3 |
| Small | 1 |