Infection Control Matters

In this podcast, Martin and Brett talk healthcare associated pneumonia (HAP) with Dr Victoria Ewan. Vicky is consultant academic geriatrician at South Tees Hospitals (Middlesbrough, United Kingdom) who has undertaken ground breaking working around our understanding of HAP. We talk about what HAP is, common causes and potential strategies to prevent. We plan on visiting this topic again at a latter...

In this podcast, Brett Mitchell discusses a paper that provides an overview of available apps for HAI prevention, including functionality, quality and usefulness with two of the authors - Dr Robbert Bentvelsen (@rbentvelsen) and Ender Holten (@EnderHolt) from the Leiden University Medical Center (@LUMC_Leiden). The article "eHealth for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections: a scoping...

In this episode, Martin talks to Consultant Clinical Scientist Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green BEM about her role at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in the UK. Elaine is the first Clinical Scientist to also have the role of Infection Control Doctor in a UK hospital and we talk about the untapped potential for Clinical Scientists to contribute to infection prevention and control teams. Elaine is...

In this episode we briefly touch on the role of sociology and what it can bring to infection control. We also discuss the value of qualitative research in infection prevention and control. Our guests this week are Professor Maria Northcote (Avondale University College) and Dr Cassie Curryer (University of Newcastle). 

In this episode, Martin talks to Professor Loreen Herwaldt, from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.  We discuss three new papers on hand hygiene compliance that have come from data originally collected that looked at the implementation of surveillance feedback and barrier precautions for a study published in the NEJM (Huskins, W.C., et al., Intervention to reduce transmission of re...

In this podcast, Phil and Brett discuss a paper from April 2021 published by Wee and colleagues, in the American Journal of Infection Control titled "Unintended consequences of infection prevention and control measures during COVID-19 pandemic" Full reference: Wee, L. E. I., Conceicao, E. P., Tan, J. Y., Magesparan, K. D., Amin, I. B. M., Ismail, B. B. S., ... & Ling, M. L. (2021). Unintended cons...

In this podcast, we hear from Professor Didier Pittet about how the hand hygiene campaign originated from identifying a problem in one hospital and translating that across the world. We also discuss how COVID-19 may change behaviour long term, the theme for WHO Hand Hygiene Day on the 5th May, ideas for improving hand hygiene in your institution, the use of automated hand hygiene monitoring and in...

The Taskforce brings together the peak health professional bodies across Australia whose members are providing clinical care to people with COVID-19. The Taskforce systematically review the literature and develop recommendations using GRADE. These are ‘living’ guidelines, updated with new research in near real-time in order to give reliable, up-to-the minute advice to clinicians providing frontlin...

In this podcast, Brett and Martin discuss a paper from March 2021 published by Assadian and colleagues, in the Journal of Hospital Infection. "Practical recommendations for routine cleaning and disinfection procedures in healthcare institutions: a narrative review" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33744383/ . We particularly liked the way that the paper is structured and that, although published in...

In this Podcast we discuss the paper"Dismantling myths on the airborne transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)" with Dr Stephanie Dancer https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33453351/

In this Podcast, we introduce "Infection Control Matters" with some of our presenters.