Infection Control Matters Brett Mitchell

A MDT approach to Water Safety explained by those from the front line.

Brett and Martin report back from the Interclean expo about the huge range of equipment that can be used to clean healthcare settings and that IPC has little say in this.

Discussions on a novel approach to selecting the best candidates to care for the hospital environment and an SSI outbreak with interesting aspects

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: Implications and solutions
The impact of an early Infectious Disease consultation for CLABSI: a single centre retrospective study
Semi-continuous disinfection of sinks with UVC on a haematologydepartment for infection prevention
Urinary tract microbiome of asymptomatic individuals with spinal cord injury
Nurses known to be colonized with livestock-associated MRSA did not cause transmission to patients
Clostridium difficile contamination of australian retail vegetables and households
Prolonged use of breathing systems used in anesthesia for up to 7 days instead of 24H
A pdf of the posters can be downloaded here

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 discuss
AMR Surveillance in waste water and clinical isolates from a tertiary hospital: Preliminary results
Deciphering the temporal short-term dynamics of Acinetobacter baumanii: Impact of colonisation pressure in infection in an endemic Indian intensive care unit (Manasa Tantry discussion)
Post-antibiotic risk for recurrent lower respiratory tract infection during prolonged hospitalisation
Transmission of MDRO during physical and occupational therapy appointmants a 3 Veterans Affairs Hospitals
Aircraft lavatory wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV2 and other coronaviruses by using family-wide RT-PCR, Thailand, October – November 2023
Enhancing feedback and implementation of infection risk scan findings (IRIS) among healthcare workers in nursing homes
Proper glove use: a multicentre before-after regional study (Anne F. Voor and Juliëtte Severin discussion)
Poster link to see the posters we discuss Posters from ESCMID Global - Part 1
More posters to come!

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 outbreaks - epidemiological challenges and tracing the source
Automated bloodstream infection surveillance
The Euro PPS survey results - data in action (or inaction)
Subsequent to the podcast recording the ECDC PPS results have been published and can be found here:
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/healthcare-associated--infections-antimicrobial-use-point-prevalence-survey-2016-2017.pdf