Trust Your Instincts? Wound Dressings, Airborne Microbes and Infection Prevention
Can something as routine as removing a wound dressing release microorganisms into the surrounding air? In this episode of Infection Control Matters, Martin and Brett explore a paper by Mellon and coll...
4 Nov 16min
The Beautiful Game of Infection Prevention: Can leadership lessons from the world of soccer help?
The central theme of this episode is that some of the most valuable lessons in healthcare leadership can be found on the football pitch. Drawing on his paper, Pitch Perfect: Healthcare Leadership Less...
21 Okt 28min
Cleaning is Patient Safety: Empowering the People Who Keep Hospitals Safe
In this episode, Martin Kiernan talks with Dr Alexandra Peters, President of Clean Hospitals, ahead of the annual Clean Hospitals Day on 20 October. They discuss this year’s theme of empowerment—why e...
8 Okt 19min
Evidence or Efficiency? How We Make IPC Decisions
In this episode, Phil Russo and Brett Mitchell are joined by Dr Shalini Elangovan from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore to discuss her global study exploring how IPC professionals make decisions. ...
24 Sep 24min
RCTs in Infection Prevention and Control - Are we getting the evidence that we need?
In this episode of Infection Control Matters, Martin Kiernan talks to Brett Mitchell about a new review of RCTs in IPC over the past two decades. The review identified 239 trials, with a striking incr...
9 Sep 22min
Who Do You Listen To? The Hidden Influencers of Hand Hygiene
In this episode, Brett and Martin discuss a cluster RCT from the Journal of Hospital Infection that took a very different approach. The researchers used social network analysis to identify the people ...
26 Aug 12min
C. difficile: Follow the Faeces
In this episode of Infection Control Matters, Brett and Martin talk to Professor Tom Riley about why we need to look well beyond the hospital to understand where Clostridioides difficile comes from. T...
12 Aug 18min
WISDOM: Using AI to Prioritise Surgical Wound Review
Artificial intelligence has enormous potential in healthcare, but where can it genuinely improve infection prevention without replacing clinical judgement? In this episode, Phil Russo and Martin Kiern...
29 Juli 34min
