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Infection Control Matters

Brett Mitchell

We are a group of professionals who work in the field of infectious disease and infection prevention and control. In this podcast series, we discuss new research and issues on the topic of infection prevention and control. We will pick new papers of interest and will discuss them, often with an author of the paper who can give us some insights into the research that go beyond the written paper. Authors will include nurses, doctors, academics, clinicians, administrators and leaders. We should stress that all of our comments relate to our own opinions and that they do not necessarily reflect those institutions and employers that we relate to. We welcome comment, suggestions and ideas. Please consider subscribing for updates and to find collections of topic specific podcasts at www.infectioncontrolmatters.com

Martin Kiernan and Jon Otter discuss the complex issue of plasmids and outbreaks

Nov 15, 2023

18 min

Ice machines - a chilling thought?

In this episode, Brett talks to Martin about a recent paper on the potential pitfalls of ice machines and following manufactures' instructions. The paper we discuss is called "How clean is your ice machine?" This paper was published in the journal of hospital infection: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195670123002700

Nov 1, 2023

16 min

Detection of pathogens in the neonatal ICU environment with Dr Ginny Moore

We discuss detection of environmental pathogens in the NICU Environment

Oct 18, 2023

22 min

Preventing device-associated infections during a COVID-19 pandemic

Jennifer Meddings and Martin discuss prevention of device-associated infections during the pandemic, especially catheter-associated UTI

Oct 4, 2023

28 min

Identifying healthcare cleaning research priorities in resource-limited settings

A discussion as to what thepriorities are for research in resource-limited settings with DrGiorgia Gon from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Health

Sep 20, 2023

24 min

Sinks in ICU Patient Rooms. Lower numbers of sinks equals lower infection rates?

DIscussion as to whether having no sinks in patient rooms leads to lower rates of infection

Sep 6, 2023

24 min

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 potential of HAI surveillance in the era of the electronic medical record, automation and artificial intelligence. Phil refers to data in these two publications: Designing Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections in the Era of Automation and Reporting Mandates The prevalence of healthcare associated infections among adult inpatients at nineteen large Australian acute-care public hospitals: a point prevalence survey

Aug 23, 2023

16 min

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.

Aug 9, 2023

14 min

Saving time and increasing IPC efficiency using Robotic Process Automation

Martin Kiernan and Jincy Jerry discuss Robotic Process Automation and AI and how they can enhance IPC team activity

Jul 27, 2023

28 min

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 the frequency of healthcare associated infections. We also make phone call mid podcast... A shout out to all the team involved in this project, including being wonderfully coordinated by Dr Kate Browne and with great support from Georgia Matterson. Full details on the website below. Link to study website: https://cleenstudy.com/ Link to study protocol: https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-023-07144-z This project is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Investigator grant (Prof Brett Mitchell, (GNT2008392)).

Jul 12, 2023

22 min