Professor Patricia Stone Across the United States there are over 1 million elderly persons living in the 15,700 nursing homes on any given day. These vulnerable residents are particularly susceptible to infections due to multiple reasons. A cross-sectional survey of...
- August 22, 2017
Professor Patricia Stone Infection prevention and control is a regional issue. One of the strongest predictors of a hospitalized patient having a multi-drug resistant organism infection or colonization is the setting from which the person was admitted from. Furthermore, increasingly...
- August 22, 2017
Chong Wei Ong1,2 1Canberra Hospital and Health Services, PO Box 11, Woden, ACT 2606; chong-wei.ong@act.gov.au 2Calvary Public Hospital Bruce, PO Box 254, Jamison Centre, ACT 2614; chong-wei.ong@act.gov.au Noroviruses are a leading cause of gastroenteritis worldwide, involving both sporadic cases...
- August 21, 2017
Sylvia Gandossi1 1Western Diagnostic Pathology, 74 Mc Coy Street, Myaree , WA, 6154 sylvia.gandossi@wdp.com.au In health and aged care procurement encompasses a diverse range of activities for both products and services. In these settings this presents infection prevention and...
- August 21, 2017
Dr Noleen Bennett VICNISS Co-ordinating Centre/ National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity 792 Elizabeth St, VIC 3000 Noleen.Bennett@mh.org.au The emergence of potentially untreatable multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) represents a serious threat in Australia....
- August 21, 2017
Mr Kostas Tsattalios1, Dr Colin Macduff2, Dr Audrey Stephen1, Dr Sarah Henderson1 1Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom 2Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Introduction: Within educational and practice based interventions to help address healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), visualisations are often used as contributory or central components. However, these have...
- August 1, 2017
Dr Colin Macduff1, Professor Alastair Macdonald1, Mr Kostas Tsattalios2 1Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 2Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom Introduction: The use and experience of visual images in their many forms is a taken-for-granted aspect of endeavours within infection prevention and control. Contemporary IPC presents both enduring visualisation...
- August 1, 2017
Adrian Fellows1,2,2 1Gama Healthcare Ltd 2AGA nanotech Ltd 3Gama Australia Pty. Ltd Introduction: The development of antibiotic-resistance requires new therapeutic approaches. We evaluated the antimicrobial activity of microparticles loaded with biocide precursors against MRSA and CREC. Methods: Sodium percarbonate and...
- August 1, 2017
Karen Dawn Wares1 1Deputy Clinical Director, GAMA Healthcare Recently, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) issued a Medical Devices Safety Update on the use of Quaternary Ammonium Compound (QAC) based disinfectants on plastic surfaces within the healthcare environment. QACs are a...
- August 1, 2017
Jon Burdach1 1Nanosonics Ltd, Head of Clinical Affairs With the expanding use of complex, heat sensitive medical devices, semi-critical device reprocessing continues to be a challenge. In particular, ultrasound is among the fasting growing imaging modalities and is broadly used...
- August 1, 2017