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
C. difficile and One Health with Prof Tom Riley
We discuss One Health in this episode with Professor Tom Riley, using C.difficile as the example of explaining why the concept of One Health is so important. Tom is a Fellow of the Royal College of ...
9 Elo 202314min
Saving time and increasing IPC efficiency using Robotic Process Automation
This week, Martin talks to Jincy Jerry, Assistant Director of Nursing in Infection Prevention and Control at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Jincy is a pioneer in the use...
27 Heinä 202328min
A CLEEN study chat and a rude interruption!
In this podcast, we talk about the CLEEN and I-CLEEN studies. These are a RCT and quasi-experimental genomics study aiming to determine the effect of additional cleaning of shared medical equipment of...
12 Heinä 202322min
