Tag: pneumonia
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Brush, Rinse, Prevent: The HAPPEN Trial Story
The tables are turned in this episode. Prof Trisha Peel and Dr Sally Havers guest host this podcast and interview Brett Mitchell, Nicole White and Martin Kiernan about their recent publication in Lancet Infectious Disease. The publication showcases results from a recent multi-centre RCT demonstrating the benefit of improving oral care in reducing the risk…
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ESCMID Global 2026 Posters (Part 2): Patient Partnership, Communication and Collaboration
In the second ESCMID Global 2026 poster tour episode, Brett and Martin found three different and thought-provoking posters that highlight the importance of people, partnerships and communication in advancing infection prevention and control. We begin by talking to Dr Aline Wolfensberger from Zurich about a Swiss project that used human-centred design and co-production to develop…
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What do C. difficile and HAP have in common – toilet plume??
In this episode, after an interesting discovery when searching Youtube, Brett and Martin mull over whether toilet plume is a risk factor for hospital-acquired pneumonia and C. difficile infections. The papers we discuss are listed below.
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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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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.