Category: human

• 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

• If you could have anything in IPC, what would you want?

  In this week’s episode Phil and Brett mull over their wish lists for what they would want in a perfect IPC world. They turn out to be a pretty undemanding pair. not. However they both see a future in which their wishes could become true. Unsurprisingly AI and automated surveillance loom large in their thoughts.

  Brett Mitchell

  December 13, 2023

  aged care, contact precautions, human, sequencing, surveillance

• Human factors and cleaning in the perioperative setting

  In this episode recorded at the 2023 SHEA Spring Meeting in Seattle, Martin talks to abstract presenter Dr Lamia Alam about the work of a Johns’ Hopkins group on a systematic review of human factors relating to cleaning in the Operating Room. We discuss the abstract presented at the meeting and also previous work in…

  Brett Mitchell

  April 20, 2023

  behaviour, environment, human

  behaviour, cleaning, environment, perioperative