Surgical Site Infection Surveillance - Who cares? With Dr Jon Otter at the IPS Conference
In another special edition from the 2021 IPS conference in Liverpool UK, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Jon Otter, who presented a paper on improving and broadening surgical site infection surveillance. B...
29 Sep 202116min
Are guidelines letting us down? With Evonne Curran and Brett Mitchell from the IPS Conference 2021
In this episode from the IPS conference, Prof Brett Mitchell is joined by Dr Evonne Curran who has worked in the field of infection prevention and control for a number of years, was a Nurse Consultant...
28 Sep 202117min
Year in Infection Control - papers selected by Prof Andreas Voss at ICPIC 2021
In this final episode at ICPIC 2021 (Geneva), Martin Kiernan talks to Professor Andreas Voss from the Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc) and Canisus-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis in the Netherlan...
21 Sep 202122min
Time to clean: Calculating the staffing requirement with An Caluwaerts
In another special edition from ICPIC, Martin talks to An Caluwaerts, IPC Specialist from Kliniek Sint Jan, Brussels. This was a poster presentation that was selected as part of a poster walk and it i...
17 Sep 202116min
From whole genome sequencing to sinks with Dr Amy Mathers
In another episode from the 2021 ICPIC Conference, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Amy Mathers, who moderated and spoke at a session on whole genome sequencing and also the issue of plasmid-mediated outbre...
16 Sep 202118min
Publish or we are all damned: The effect of COVID on journal publications with John McConnell of the Lancet
In this episode from the 2021 ICPIC Conference, Martin Kiernan talks to John McConnell, Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet Infectious Diseases about his keynote yesterday about the impact (and vice-versa) ...
16 Sep 202115min
Looking to ICPIC Conference 2021 with Prof Didier Pittet and Prof Stephan Harbarth
In this special episode, Martin Kiernan talks to the ICPIC 2021 Conference organisers, Profs Didier Pittet and Stephan Harbarth about the upcoming meeting to be held in Geneva. With over 400 delegates...
9 Sep 202115min
Cleaning up the air using air cleaners and purifiers with Jason Monty
In this episode Brett and Phil discuss improving the quality of air to reduce the risk of infection from airborne pathogens with Professor Jason Monty. We discuss air cleaner and purifiers, their role...
7 Sep 202123min
