Would you be admitted to a room where a previous person was infected?
In this episode, Brett and Martin discuss a paper they were recently involved with - a systematic review and meta-analysis on prior room occupancy and the risk to the next person. This paper has been ...
29 Marras 202313min
MDRO Plasmid-related outbreaks - is there anything we can do? With Jon Otter
In this week's episode, Martin talks to Dr Jon Otter, epidemiologist, scientst, blogger and Joint Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. W...
15 Marras 202318min
Ice machines - a chilling thought?
In this episode, Brett talks to Martin about a recent paper on the potential pitfalls of ice machines and following manufactures' instructions. The paper we discuss is called "How clean is your ice ...
1 Marras 202316min
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 seq...
18 Loka 202322min
Preventing device-associated infections during a COVID-19 pandemic
This week, Martin talks to Dr Jennifer Meddings, Associate Professor at University of Michigan Health and Internist at Ann Arbor about a recently published survey looking at what interventions are com...
4 Loka 202328min
Identifying healthcare cleaning research priorities in resource-limited settings
In this episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Giorgia Gon, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine about a briefing paper that identifies research priorities...
20 Syys 202324min
Sinks in ICU Patient Rooms. Lower numbers of sinks equals lower infection rates?
In this episode, Martin talks to Giovanni-Battista Fucini about a recent paper from Germany that examined infection rates in critical care in which it was reported that hospitals without sinks in pati...
6 Syys 202324min
Future directions for surveillance
Martin chats to Phil in Melbourne following a recent presentation. Yes, two old farts reminiscing about the days of wearing out the boot leather collecting surveillance data talk with envy about the p...
23 Elo 202316min
