Human and financial cost of healthcare-associated pneumonia with Dr Dian Baker at the 2022 SHEA Spring Meeting
In this episode recorded at the 2022 SHEA Sprong meeting, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Dian Baker, Emeritus Professor at California State University, Sacramento, USA. Dian has been a passionate advocate...
20 Huhti 202214min
N95 Mask use for respiratory protection - a discussion with Dr Michael Klompas at the SHEA Spring Meeting
Martin Kiernan managaed to grab a few minutes with Dr Michael Klompas, ID Physicial at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, at the SHEA Spring meetin...
13 Huhti 20229min
Implementation of patient warming to prevent SSI - How hard can it be? With Prof. Judith Tanner
In this week's episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Judith Tanner, Professor of Adult Nursing at the University of Nottingham, UK about a paper in which a mixed methods approach to examining potential ...
5 Huhti 202232min
Surgical Site Infection (SSI) prevention with Charles Edmiston
In this episode, Phil Russo flies solo and discusses strategies for prevention of SSI with Professor Charles Edmiston, Emeritus Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Chuck has a ...
30 Maalis 202231min
Vaccine hesitancy and the role of social scientists in infection prevention with A/Professor Holly Seale
In this episode Brett Mitchell talks to Associate Professor Holly Seale about the role of social scientists, vaccine hesitancy, booster vaccines and the potential implications for the next influenza s...
23 Maalis 202219min
Environmental decontamination reduces healthcare infections - a systematic review with Alexandra Peters
In this week's episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Alexandra Peters, who works in Prof. Didier Pittet's group at the University Hospitals of Geneva and with a WHO Collaborating Centre. We discuss a new s...
17 Maalis 202225min
Infection Prevention Team Staffing levels - Less (staff) is more (infections)?
In this week's episode, Brett Mitchell and Martin Kiernan use a recent paper published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology to start a discussion about an relationship between IPC Team staff...
9 Maalis 202226min
Could a virtual Infection Prevention Service provide support in middle and low income countries? With Prof Gonzalo Bearman
In this episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Professor Gonzalo Bearman, Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiologist/Medical Director of VCU Healthcare and the Richard P. Wenzel Prof...
1 Maalis 202218min
