Mr Yu Lyu1 1Sichuan Academy Of Medical Sciences And Sichuan People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China Background: On January 7, 2019, we noticed an outbreak of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) caused by Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) in the neurosurgical intensive care unit (NSICU)....
- July 30, 2019
Mr Qian Xiang1, Ms Jiayu Wu1 1Sichuan Academy Of Medical Sciences And Sichuan People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China Introduction: In August 2017, the incidence of peritonitis in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) of the PD Center of a tertiary hospital in...
- July 30, 2019
Mrs Anie Edward1 1Sunshine Hospital, St. Albans, Australia Introduction: In Victoria, there have been 22,277 confirmed cases of influenza with 37 people dying from this virus so far this year (Department of Health & Human Services, 2019). During the 2017...
- July 30, 2019
Ms Katherine McKay1,2, Professor Ramon Shaban2,3, Doctor Patricia Ferguson4 1Eastern Health, Box Hill, Australia, 2The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, 3Western Sydney Local Health District, North Paramatta, Australia, 4Department of Infectious Diseases, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia Introduction: Hand hygiene (HH)...
- July 30, 2019
Ms Marree Porch1 1Queensland Health, Cairns, Australia Background: The second edition of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS), published by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, action 3.11 outlines the health services responsibility...
- July 30, 2019
Mrs Kaye Bellis1, Ms Daniela Karanfilovska1, Ms Pauline Bass1 1Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia Introduction: Implementation of an electronic medical record (EMR) necessitates the use of bedside mobile workstations (BMWs) and other hand-held devices to support clinical care, and represents a...
- July 30, 2019
Mrs Kaye Bellis1, M Pauline Bass1 1Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia Background: Implementing staff hand hygiene (HH) programs is a key component for Infection Prevention (IP), and standardised auditing methods enable compliance to be evaluated. Consumer experience surveys are used increasingly...
- July 30, 2019
Mrs Kaye Bellis1, Ms Christine Sharp1, Ms Pauline Bass1 1Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia Background: Historically, medical staff in Emergency Departments (EDs) have been observed to have lower rates of hand hygiene (HH) compliance when compared to staff in other clinical...
- July 30, 2019
Kathy Duggan1, Mary-Anne Ramis1 1Mater Health, South Brisbane, Australia Introduction: Transmission-based precautions are a set of practices used in addition to standard precautions when the suspected or confirmed presence of certain infectious agents represents an increased risk of transmission, and...
- July 30, 2019
Mrs Saleema Salman Ali Salman Ali1 1Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan Objectives: To reduce the number of hours in which patient are in open bay i-e average 20 hours to 4 hours (internal set target). To decrease the number...
- July 30, 2019