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Final podcast of the year and @1healthau.bsky.social @plr-aus.bsky.social and I discuss favourite conferences, papers and podcasts. As usual it’s none too serious. infectioncontrolmatters.com/… find us on all podcast hosting sites
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🛡️ Ensuring Patient Safety: The True Value of Hospital Hygiene. Watch this insightful video from @jonotter to discover why investing in hygiene is essential for better healthcare outcomes.
💬 Join the conversation and help us raise standards together!
⚖️ Dive into the critical balance between cost savings and patient safety in hospital environmental hygiene.
📺 This video highlights the long-term impact of hygiene practices on infection rates and explains why understanding their value is essential for healthcare facilities.
#HospitalHygiene #PatientSafety #InfectionControl #HygieneStandards #EnvironmentalHygiene #PatientCare #CleanHospitals
Latest podcast up and this time we discuss an RCT that examined whether portable air filtration in a nursing home reduces respiratory infections. infectioncontrolmatters.com/…
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All clinical areas should have a A3 poster of our patient information leaflets QR codes! We hope you are finding them useful, please display them so patients have access to vital information. 🏥
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Really looking forward to doing this Journal Club with @emrsa15 and @philnorville. I have a feeling that it's going be difficult to contain this discussion to a mere 45 mins - prob need 45 years to do it justice!
Some great news - @emrsa15 will be leading our next IPC Journal Club: "Simulation or Slides?: Rethinking the IPC Training Role". Weds 4th December, 1000 EST / 1500 GMT (UK). Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
Have enough IPs in your team for your IPC program? Almost no-one does according to the APIC calculation tool. I discuss this with the creator Rebecca Crapanzano-Sigafoos and look at strategies for getting the support needed podbean.com/eas/pb-ynta9-174…
How far would you go to confirm the source of an outbreak confirmed by NGS? Permanent destruction of an ERCP scope that was negative on all normal sampling? infectioncontrolmatters.com/… You'd better be right! Paper we discuss here ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3845…
New podcast today. I talk to Claire Fitzsimons from Northern Ireland about a poster on reducing glove use in an ambulance service presented at the 2024 @IPS_Infection conference. Great example of front-line staff producing solutions and IPC team support infectioncontrolmatters.com/…
Getting ready for Clean Hospitals Day? Excellent toolkit and resources available here cleanhospitals.com/promotion… Evidence shows that making environments safer really makes a difference thelancet.com/journals/lanin… @Clean_Hospitals
New podcast now up and @1healthau and I talk to @thebotmechanic anout how AI could bolster patient safety by enhancing effectiveness of cleaning in hospitals infectioncontrolmatters.com/…
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Prof. Andreas Voss (world renowned #IPC expert) invites you to the 33rd International Congress of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy #ICC2024
He will present a keynote lecture on "#Infection control: where we came from and future challenges"
youtu.be/TTZ0u8LKxF0
@AVIPNL @KanjSouha
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Looking forward to the next IPC Journal Club in a couple of weeks' time. I'll be leading a session on preventing complications from peripheral venous catheters (PVCs). We spend lots of time focussing on central venous catheters, but there's plenty of reasons to focus on PVCs!
Next IPC Journal Club, Weds 16th October 2024, 1500-1545 (UK time), "Vascular access and infection prevention: making peripheral lines a central focus" @jonotter to lead with @philnorville facilitating Q&A. Hope to see you there. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
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There has been a lot of excitement about the prospects of WGS to support IPC in a really meaningful way over the past decades. This blog post explores what needs to happen to realise these potential benefits reflectionsipc.com/2024/10/0…
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#IDTwitter @PriyaNori OPEN ACCESS in @ASHE_Journal Invasion of superbugs: Cockroach-driven outbreak of multidrug-resistant Enterobacter in an ICU bit.ly/3Y6ml33
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@IPS_Infection big shout out to all those Infection Preventionists on #WorldMRSADay - today and everyday, never forget those whose lives are impacted by #MRSA and other healthcare associated infections. Thanks for all you do.