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
Celebrating 20 years of Teleclass Education with Paul Webber
In this episode, Martin Kiernan and Brett Mitchell talk to Paul Webber in the 20th year of the Webber Teleclass series that remains free for all in low-income countries. Originally envisaged by his fr...
30 Jun 202127min
More questions than answers! Changes in bacteraemia patterns during COVID with Dr Luke Moore
In this episode, Martin is jouned by Dr Luke Moore (@dr_luke_moore), Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology and Virology at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust in the UK and...
23 Jun 202129min
The impact of heatlhcare associated infections - mortality, length of stay and cost
In this podcast, we discuss an article just published in Clinical Infectious Disease which reports data from 134 hospitals on mortality, length of stay and costs of common infections. https://pubmed.n...
16 Jun 202127min
