Sinks in ICU Patient Rooms. Lower numbers of sinks equals lower infection rates?
In this episode, Martin talks to Giovanni-Battista Fucini about a recent paper from Germany that examined infection rates in critical care in which it was reported that hospitals without sinks in pati...
6 Sep 202324min
Future directions for surveillance
Martin chats to Phil in Melbourne following a recent presentation. Yes, two old farts reminiscing about the days of wearing out the boot leather collecting surveillance data talk with envy about the p...
23 Aug 202316min
C. difficile and One Health with Prof Tom Riley
We discuss One Health in this episode with Professor Tom Riley, using C.difficile as the example of explaining why the concept of One Health is so important. Tom is a Fellow of the Royal College of ...
9 Aug 202314min
Saving time and increasing IPC efficiency using Robotic Process Automation
This week, Martin talks to Jincy Jerry, Assistant Director of Nursing in Infection Prevention and Control at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Jincy is a pioneer in the use...
27 Juli 202328min
A CLEEN study chat and a rude interruption!
In this podcast, we talk about the CLEEN and I-CLEEN studies. These are a RCT and quasi-experimental genomics study aiming to determine the effect of additional cleaning of shared medical equipment of...
12 Juli 202322min
Surgical site infection, quality improvement and patient involvement with Sinéad Horgan
In this episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Sinèad Horgan, Director of Nursing South/South West Hospital Group, and School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health, University College Cor...
28 Juni 202327min
Implementation of HAP Prevention - not what you do but the way that you do it
In this episode, we discuss a paper in the Lancet Infectious Disease about preventing non-ventilator associate pneumonia including the determinants of implementation success. Brett and Martin chat wit...
14 Juni 202337min
Have gloves and gowns had their day?
Brett Mitchell talks to Dr Sarah Browning and Professor Josh Davis about a recent paper in Infection, Disease and Health - "Have gloves and gowns had their day?" The evidence for gloves and gowns is d...
31 Maj 202320min
