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
Surveillance and Antimicrobial Stewardship in long-term care facilities
In this episode Phil talks to A/Prof Noleen Bennett* about the state of surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship and what her research has discovered in this area. Noleen also tells about an excitin...
17 Maj 202326min
Outbreaks you didn’t know that you had - the joy of whole genome sequencing
In this episode recorded at the 2023 SHEA Spring Meeting in Seattle, Martin talks to Associate Professor Alex Sundermann about his work on sequencing all isolates from local healthcare settings and th...
4 Maj 202316min
Staff opinions of automated hand hygiene monitoring
In this second discussion of an abstract presented at the SHEA Spring meeting 2023 in Seattle, Martin talks to MPH candidate Olivia Hess about her work on staff opinions of automated hand hygiene moni...
27 Apr 202312min
Human factors and cleaning in the perioperative setting
In this episode recorded at the 2023 SHEA Spring Meeting in Seattle, Martin talks to abstract presenter Dr Lamia Alam about the work of a Johns' Hopkins group on a systematic review of human factors r...
20 Apr 202313min
The 100th
This is the 100th episode of Infection Control Matters and includes a special announcement. A big thanks to our 110+ guests so far. In this podcast, Martin, Brett and Phil talk about what we've not co...
14 Apr 202334min
