Removing contact precautions - what trial do we need?
In this episode, Brett and Martin discuss a recent paper from Sarah Browning and colleagues that describes how an RCT on the ending of aspects of contact precautions (gloves and aprons) for MRSA and V...
29 Aug 202425min
Using AI in Infection Prevention: Opportunities and Dangers
In this episode, Martin Kiernan catches up with Dr Gonzalo Bearman, Professor of Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. We talk about the opportunities and dangers of us...
7 Aug 202417min
An award-winning MDT collaborative approach to reducing risks from water in a large organisation
In this episode, Martin Kiernan talks to representatives of the Multi-disciplinary Team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK, Dr Jessica Martin IPC Matron Adele Dyche and Haematology Matron...
24 Juli 202439min
Healthcare Cleaning - a visit to Interclean that's an eye-opener
In this episode, Brett and Martin report on a visit to the massive Interclean Expo held biannually in Amsterdam and the Healthcare Hygiene meeting. We report on the staggering range of equipment avail...
10 Juli 202415min
A novel approach to employing environmental service workers and an outbreak (or pseudo-outbreak) of SSI
In this episode, Martin has been on the road again and talks to two poster presenters at the IPAC-Canada 2024 conference. In the first part, Martin talks to Margaret Cameron from Peterborough Regional...
27 Juni 202425min
More posters from ESCMID Global 2024, inc C. diff, UV-C, wastewater surveillance, LA-MRSA
This week we have a second batch of posters that we liked at ESCMID Global and will be talking about: VRE Surveillance using hospital waste water during an outbreak Assessing the Hawthorne effect: Imp...
12 Juni 202427min
Posters from ESCMID Global 2024 - Part 1
In this episode Brett, Phil and Martin tour the posters at ESCMID Global 2024 and we discuss some of them with the authors. A link to images of the posters can be found below. Here are the posters we ...
29 Maj 202427min
Reflections on Day 3 at ESCMID Global 2024
It was day 3 at ESCMID Global 2024 and Phil, Brett and Martin mull over the day. Amongst the items we discuss are: What does endogenous really mean? AI in the IPC space - friend or foe? Fungal outbrea...
15 Maj 202422min
