Month: August 2016

Cameron Jones 1  1 Director, Biological Health Services, Toorak, VIC, Australia   Introduction Unwanted dampness inside buildings can occur because of rainwater, accidental leaks, human activities or from intrinsic problems caused by building design or construction materials. This poster reports on a practical intervention focussing on mould...

Cameron Jones 1,3, Richard Anthony 2,3 1 Biological Health Services, Toorak, VIC, Australia 2 Eze Training, VIC, Australia 3 Australasian Infection Control Society Inc, VIC, Australia   Introduction Tattoos can cause a range of problems like sun sensitivity while allergy is the dominant clinical manifestation. Skin penetration during needling of decorative and...

Sue Greig 1 1 Senior Project Officer, Australian Commission On Safety And Quality In Health Care (acsqhc), Sydney, NSW, Australia   Any organisation large or small that requires reusable medical devices (RMDs) as part of its scope of service has the responsibility to insure that the reprocessing...

Roel Castillo 1 1 CSSD  Manager, Macquarie University Hospital, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia   Introduction: The Sterilizing Services Department is responsible for compliance to Standard (part of) 3.8, 3.16, 3.17 & 3.18. With the publication of the new AS 4187 compliance is literally more challenging. This...

Roel Castillo 1 1 CSSD Manager, Macquarie University Hospital, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia   Introduction: The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare requires health service organizations to comply with 10 standards ensuring risk is minimized and patients get the quality of care they truly...

Kathy Taylor 1 1 Infection Control Manager, The Wesley Hospital, Toowong, QLD, Australia   Introduction: In June 2013 the Wesley hospital made the national news because of a Legionella outbreak. The 524 bed private hospital reported two immune-compromised patients had contracted pneumonia whilst they were inpatients...

Matthew Richards 1, Kathryn Williams 1, Louise Hobbs 1, Caroline Marshall 1 1 Melbourne Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia   Introduction During an outbreak of vanA vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) in our intensive care unit (ICU) and cardiothoracic surgery ward (CTW), multiple infection control interventions were put in place resulting in resolution of the...

Susan Ryan 1, Elizabeth Gillespie 1, Rhonda Stuart 1,2,3 1 Monash Health, Clayton, VIC, Australia 2 Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia 3 National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship, Melbourne, VIC, Australia   Introduction: Although outbreaks of respiratory tract infections in residential aged care facilities (RACF) are common, the aetiology is often unknown. The aged...

Leanne Houston 1, Jane Stafford 1, Helen Marquand 1, Andrea Bailey 1, Rosalyn Carmichael 1, Mary O’Reilly 1 1 Eastern Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia   Background In April 2016 Carbapenem resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) was identified in clinical isolates within a 7 day period from two patients who had been admitted to same ward....

Karen Mardegan 1,2, Kerrie Curtis 1, Sam Radford 1,3, Donna Cameron 1, Lindsay Grayson 1,3 1 Austin Health, Heidleberg, VIC, Australia 2 La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia 3 Melbourne University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia   Introduction A plethora of studies in recent years have been published detailing the implementation of Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Insertion Bundles of care. Study aims and results...