Month: August 2016

Philip L Russo1,2,3 1 Deakin/Alfred Health Nursing Centre for Research, Deakin University, VIC 2 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University QLD 3 Avondale College of Higher Education, NSW   Surveillance of healthcare associated infections is the cornerstone of infection...

Harvey G, Kitson A 1 The University of Adelaide, Adelaide Nursing School, Adelaide, SA, 5005, gillian.harvey@adelaide.edu.au 2 The University of Adelaide, Adelaide Nursing School, Adelaide, SA, 5005, alison.kitson@adelaide.edu.au   Drawing on an emerging body of evidence from implementation science, this...

Lisa Hall1 1 School of Public Health and Social Work, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, 4059, L11.hall@qut.edu.au   Prevention of healthcare associated infections in hospitals is dependent on successful implementation of infection...

Jocelyne M Basseal 1 and Susan Campbell Westerway 2, 1 Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM), Level 2, 511 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, NSW 2065 Email: j.basseal@asum.com.au 2 Faculty of Dentistry & Health Sciences, Charles Sturt University NSW AUSTRALIA   As ultrasound technology...

Dr Tony Speer 1 1 Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Vic, 3050. Tony.speer@mh.org.au   Outbreaks of pseudomonas cholangitis after ERCP in the 1980s exposed a flaw in reprocessing – a failure to adequately dry endoscopes. Alcohol flush and forced air drying was...

Laura Cowell 1, John Williams 1 1 Valpak (aust) Pty Ltd, NSW, Australia   Background: The increasing drive towards improving infection control and reducing hospital acquired infections (HAIs) in the clinical environment has led to the development of complex and rigorous procedures, and the use of...

Md Abu Choudhury 1,2,3,4, Hanna Sidjabat 4, Irani Rathnayake 5, Nicole Gavin 1,2,6, Raymond Chan 1,2,5,6, Shahera Banu 5, Flavia Huygens 5, David Paterson 4, Claire Rickard 1,2,6, David McMillan 2,3 1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Nursing (NCREN), Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 2 Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 3 Inflammation and Healing Research Cluster, School of Health and Sports Sciences, University...

Kathryn Catterick 1  1 Infection Prevention Control Manager, Calvary South Tasmania, Bagdad, TAS, Australia   Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) is a discipline dominated with quantitative data; rates for hand hygiene compliance and health care acquired infections, biostatistics, epidemiological frequencies and patterns of public health events. In...

Khalid Johani 1, Danya Abualsaud 2, Honghua Hu 1, Karen Vickery 1 1 Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia 2 Molecular Laboratory, Medical Microbiology, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeedah, Saudi Arabia   Healthcare associated infections are a significant burden on health service providers, in terms of cost, morbidity and mortality. Organisms causing these infections can be sourced...

Trent Yarwood 1 1 Infectious Diseases Physician, Cairns And Hinterland Hospital And Health Service, Cairns, QLD, Australia   Introduction Infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship activities generate a large amount of data – rates of hand hygiene, isolation of multiresistant organisms and information about quantity and...