In this week’s episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Professor Jennie Wilson of the Richard Wells Research Centre at the University of West London and current Infection Prevention Society President. We discuss her recent editorial, co-written with Associate Professor Jacqui Prieto from the University of Southampton. After 25 years of contact precautions, first introduced as putative best practice, the evidence to support this intervention has not appeared and there are suggestions that harms may be being caused through poor implementation. Contact precautions add PPE and physical isolation to Standard Precautions, however does this lead to over, and inappropriate use of PPE that is not required?
Papers cited during the podcast include:
Identifying healthcare cleaning research priorities in resource-limited settings
Sinks in ICU Patient Rooms. Lower numbers of sinks equals lower infection rates?
Future directions for surveillance
C. difficile and One Health with Prof Tom Riley
Saving time and increasing IPC efficiency using Robotic Process Automation
A CLEEN study chat and a rude interruption!
Surgical site infection, quality improvement and patient involvement with Sinéad Horgan
Implementation of HAP Prevention - not what you do but the way that you do it
Have gloves and gowns had their day?
Surveillance and Antimicrobial Stewardship in long-term care facilities
Outbreaks you didn’t know that you had - the joy of whole genome sequencing
Staff opinions of automated hand hygiene monitoring
Human factors and cleaning in the perioperative setting
The 100th
Right specimen, right time - The importance of diagnostic stewardship
C. difficile - a constant challenge to stay still
Detection, removal and prevention of environmental biofilms
The Sink Splash Zone - danger lies within?
Oral Hygiene - attitudes and practice. Implications for pneumonia prevention.
Intermittent or indwelling catheter in reducing CAUTI?
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