In this, the first episode of 2022, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Matt Butler, Consultant Geriatrician (Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK), Dr Christine Peters, Consultant Microbiologist (NHS Greater Glasgow, Scotland) and Dr Evonne Curran, now an independent IPC Consultant. We start off by discussing how Matt came to design a study that looks at the effect of air filtration on a range of infections, including respiratory viruses and more 'common' pathogens like Clostridium difficile. We also discuss why it had taken so long for airborne transmission to be accepted as a mode of transmission. Books recommended by Evonne in the podcast are listed below.
Think Again: The power of knowing what you don't know by Adam Grant (https://www.adamgrant.net/book/think-again/) ISBN: 9780753553886
Seeing what others don't by Gary Klein ISBN: 9781857886788
Paper by Andrew Conway-Morris referred to in the podcast:
Andrew Conway Morris, Katherine Sharrocks, Rachel Bousfield, Leanne Kermack, Mailis Maes, Ellen Higginson, Sally Forrest, Joana Pereira-Dias, Claire Cormie, Tim Old, Sophie Brooks, Islam Hamed, Alicia Koenig, Andrew Turner, Paul White, R Andres Floto, Gordon Dougan, Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas, Theodore Gouliouris, Stephen Baker, Vilas Navapurkar, The Removal of Airborne Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Other Microbial Bioaerosols by Air Filtration on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Surge Units, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021;, ciab933, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab933
Reflections on day 2 of ESCMID Global 2024
Discussing the new WHO infectious respiratory particles paper at ECCMID (With Prof Cath Noakes)
ECCMID 2024 - The year in infection control
Reflections on the first morning at ECCMID 2024
Visualising infection transmission using genomics
Investigating a unique CPE strain outbreak - a possible new place to look?
C. difficile in England is on the rise, but why? A sign of a system on the edge and could a new variant push it over?
What do C. difficile and HAP have in common - toilet plume??
A national CPE survey of healthcare workers knowledge and some interesting sink practices
90% Reduction in MRSA bacteraemia. Possible but patience is a virtue!
C. difficile: Disinfectants, attachment and strain variations
The 2023 End of Year/Christmas Special
If you could have anything in IPC, what would you want?
Would you be admitted to a room where a previous person was infected?
MDRO Plasmid-related outbreaks - is there anything we can do? With Jon Otter
Ice machines - a chilling thought?
Detection of pathogens in the neonatal ICU environment with Dr Ginny Moore
Preventing device-associated infections during a COVID-19 pandemic
Identifying healthcare cleaning research priorities in resource-limited settings
Sinks in ICU Patient Rooms. Lower numbers of sinks equals lower infection rates?
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