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The 2023 End of Year/Christmas Special
In our usual Christmas episode, Brett, Phil and Martin choose our papers and podcasts of 2023. Also this time, Martin set the three of us a challenge: to find an interesting IPC-related paper from the years of our birth (more challenging for some than others..). Martin also reveals the No 1 single in our respective…
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Detection of pathogens in the neonatal ICU environment with Dr Ginny Moore
In this episode, Martin talks to Dr Jinny Moore from the National Health Security Agency in England about detecting pathogens in the ICU environment. They discuss a recent paper where whole-genome sequencing (WGS) on presumptive S. capitis NRCS-A isolates was collected from infants admitted to nationwide NICU and from environmental sampling in two distinct NICUs.…
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Implementation of hospital acquired pneumonia prevention.
In this episode, Brett and Martin discuss a paper in the Lancet Infectious Disease with authors Dr Aline Wolfensberger and Professor Hugo Sax. We discuss preventing non-ventilator associate pneumonia including the determinants of implementation success. Link to paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00812-X/fulltext Dr Aline Wolfensberger is a medical doctor, certified in Internal Medicine and in Infectious Diseases and…
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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…
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100th episode of Infection Control Matters
This is our 100th episode of Infection Control Matters and includes the announcement of our Infection Control Matters website. Subscribe via the website and receive an automatic email when a new podcast is released. You can click on the email to access the podcast more easily. The website also allows you to search our podcasts…
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