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Have gloves and gowns had their day?
In this episode, Brett Mitchell talks to Dr Sarah Browning and Professor Josh Davis about a recent paper in Infection, Disease and Health – “Have gloves and gowns had their day?” The evidence for gloves and gowns is discussed, as well as results from a recent survey into their use for contact precautions in Australia…
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Surveillance and Antibiotic Stewardship in Long Term Care
In this episode Phil talks to A/Prof Noleen Bennett* about the state of surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship and what her research has discovered in this area. Noleen also tells about an exciting project she is leading called NISPAC, a streamlined infection and antimicrobial use surveillance system for Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities. *Associate Professor Noleen…
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Outbreaks you didn’t know that you had – the joy of whole genome sequencing
In this episode recorded at the 2023 SHEA Spring Meeting in Seattle, Martin talks to Associate Professor Alex Sundermann about his work on sequencing all isolates from local healthcare settings and the discoveries that this enables. Healthcare infections due to previous admissions, endoscopes, even pseudo-outbreaks are all laid bare by this approach. Some recent papers…
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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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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…
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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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C.difficile – a constant challenge to stay still
In this episode Brett and Martin talk to Mairéad Skally and Prof Fidelma Fitzpatrick about their efforts to minimise Clostridioides difficile infections in the Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Mairéad is a Surveillance Scientist and Fidelma is a Consultant Microbiologist and also Head of Department of Clinical Microbiology at the Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland).…
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Detection, removal and prevention of environmental biofilms
In this week’s episode, Martin talks to Professor Jean-Yves Maillard from the Cardiff School of Pharmacy in Wales. We discuss detention, removal and prevention of biofilms in wet and dry environments. A range of papers on this topic from his group are listed below.
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The Sink Splash Zone – danger lies within?
In this week’s episode, Brett and Martin talk to Dr Mark Garvey, Consultant Clinical Scientist at University Hospitals Birmingham in the UK. We discuss a new paper from the UHB team which looks at the practical aspects of contamination within the splash radius of a clinical hand hygiene sink in a critical care area. The…
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Oral care and pneumonia
In this podcast we talk about the knowledge attitudes and practice of nurses regarding oral hygiene of dependent inpatients in this podcast with Dr Isabel Oliveira.
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