Category: hand hygiene

• Posters from the 2025 Innovation Academy at ICPIC and from the UK IPS Conference

  In this episode, Brett and Martin discuss a few posters that interested them from recent major infection prevention conferences. Brett was at the ICPIC Conference in Geneva and found plenty of interest in the Innovation academy.  Martin was on his travels as well and recorded a few discussions with poster presenters at the 2025 Infection…

  maanki14

  October 29, 2025

  air, artificial intelligence, genomics, hand hygiene

• Infection Control Matters Live from the 2026 IPS Brighton Conference

  In this episode, Martin Kiernan hosts a panel discussion at the 2026 Infection Prevention Society Conference in Brighton, United Kingdom. The Panel comprised: Topics we discuss include:

  maanki14

  October 15, 2025

  aged care, behaviour, CAUTI, cleaning, hand hygiene, Hospital Hygiene, Leadership, MRO, One Health, pneumonia, surveillance

• Candidozyma auris from the lab to the front line: A discussion with UKHSA experts

  In this episode Martin talks to Dr Andy Borman, (Acting Head and Consultant Clinical Scientist, UKHSA National UK Mycology Reference Lab. also Hon Professor of Medical Mycology, MRC CMM, University of Exeter), Dr Colin Brown (Deputy Director of Emerging and Epidemic Infections at UK Health Security Agency; Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology…

  maanki14

  April 30, 2025

  cleaning, contact precautions, Device, environment, Fungal infections, genomics, hand hygiene, Hospital Hygiene, One Health, stewardship, surveillance, Uncategorized

• Removing contact precautions – what trial do we need?

  In this episode, Brett and Martin discuss a recent paper from Sarah Browning and colleagues that describes how an RCT on the ending of aspects of contact precautions (gloves and aprons) for MRSA and VRE could be conducted. The paper can be found here: https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(24)00243-X/abstract Our other podcasts on contact precautions, gloves and aprons can…

  maanki14

  August 30, 2024

  contact precautions, environment, hand hygiene, Hospital Hygiene

• More posters from ESCMID Global 2024, inc C. diff, UV-C, wastewater surveillance, LA-MRSA

  This week we have a second batch of posters that we liked at ESCMID Global and will be talking about: A pdf of the posters can be downloaded below

  maanki14

  June 12, 2024

  behaviour, c.difficile, CAUTI, genomics, hand hygiene, One Health, sequencing, sinks, surveillance, UTI

• 90% Reduction in MRSA bacteraemia. Possible but patience is a virtue!

  In this episode, Martin Kiernan and Phil Russo talk to Professor Michael Borg of the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery in the Medical School at the University of Malta and Head of Department (Infection Control) at Mater Dei Hospital in Malta. We discuss a recent paper desctibing the stages that brought about a 90% reduction…

  maanki14

  January 24, 2024

  Device, hand hygiene, human, MRO, Uncategorized

  Behaviour change, Bloodstream infection, Culture, device-related infection, hand hygiene, infectioncontrol, mrsa, surveillance

• Staff opinions of automated hand hygiene monitoring

  In this second discussion of an abstract presented at the SHEA Spring meeting 2023 in Seattle, Martin talks to MPH candidate Olivia Hess about her work on staff opinions of automated hand hygiene monitoring. Olivia works as a member of Dr Gonzalo Bearman’s group at VCU Health (Virginia Commonwealth University) in Richmond, Virginia. We discuss…

  Brett Mitchell

  April 27, 2023

  hand hygiene, Uncategorized

  hand hygiene