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
CAUTI - decades of little progress?
In this episode Brett Mitchell and Martin Kiernan chew the fat over the fact that, despite knowing that it makes up a great proportion of HCAIs globally, progress can be measured in a series of small ...
31 Aug 202129min
Mind your language! With Claire Kilpatrick and Martin Shovel
In this week's episode, Martin Kiernan talks to WHO Consultant Claire Kilpatrick and Martin Shovel, a writer, satirical cartoonist and communications coach who runs Creativityworks, an organisation th...
24 Aug 202129min
Compassion and Infection Prevention - Not mutually exclusive!
In this week's episode Brett MItchell and Martin Kiernan talk to Julie Storr. Julie is a consultant to the World Health Organisation who originally started her infection prevention career in Oxford in...
17 Aug 202135min
COVID-19 - Your Questions Answered
In this Q&A style podcast, listeners to our podcast were offered the opportunity to pose COVID-19 related questions to a panel. Our panel included Prof Kirsty Buising, Liz Orr and A/Prof Caroline Mars...
10 Aug 202152min
Infusion set replacement intervals, 4 days Vs 7 days with Prof Claire Rickard
In this episode we discuss a paper published in the Lancet which compares the effectiveness and costs of 7-day versus 4-day infusion set replacement to prevent CRBSI with lead author Professor Claire ...
3 Aug 202122min
Assessing preventability of Staph aureus bacteraemia with Daniela Karanfilovska
In this week's episode, Prof Brett Mitchell talks to Daniela Karanfilovska. Daniela is an infection prevention nurse at Alfred Health in Melbourne. She led a paper published recently in the Journal of...
2 Aug 202121min
Something in the air? With Dr Kirsty Buising
This week, Brett Mitchell and Martin Kiernan are joined by Dr Kirsty Buising, infectious diseases physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital who is also Deputy Director of the National Centre for Antim...
13 Jul 202126min
