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
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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