Month: July 2022

Ms Kelly Barton1 1Alpine Health, Myrtleford, Australia Introduction: With the COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing, and the majority of deaths in the first waves occurring in residential aged care, infection prevention and control (IPC) in this setting has been put under...

Mr Peter Deliopoulos1 1PDMedical Pty Ltd, Dandenong South, Australia Background: Through four simple examples of collaboration with I.C. nurses we see how long standing problems in the wards and operating theatre can be solved to protect workers from sharps injury,...

Mrs Nicole Vause1, Mr  Gavin Pead-Ferenczi2, Mrs Peggy Ooi3, Mrs Fiona  Dillon4, Mrs Rebecca Sakatunoff5 1Department Of Health & Wellbeing SA, Adelaide, Australia 2Nursing & Midwifery Office, Adelaide, Australia 3COVID-19 Response Care Team, Adelaide, Australia 4COVID-19 Response Care Team, Adelaide,...

Mr Joshua Philp1 1South Eastern Local Health District -NSW Health, Sydney, Australia Background: To provide a safe and reliable patient-centred vaccination program during a covid-19 pandemic across an entire district of a capitol city. Method: By keeping Infection prevention and...

Ms Fiona Gotterson1,2, Professor  Kirsty Buising1,2,3,4, Associate Professor  Lisa Hall5, Professor  Elizabeth  Manias5,6, Dr Arjun  Rajkhowa1,2 1Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 2National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship, Peter Doherty Institute, Melbournev, Australia 3Victorian...

Mr Aryan Shahabi-sirjani1, Mr Andrew Gibb1, Dr Jonathan Burdach1 1Nanosonics, Macquarie Park, Australia Ultrasound-guided procedures are diverse, and while some procedures only contact intact skin, others contact with broken skin or sterile tissue. As percutaneous procedures involve needle puncture of...

Mr Aryan Shahabi-sirjani1, Mr Andrew Gibb1, Dr Jonathan Burdach1 1Nanosonics, Macquarie Park, Australia Traceability is the linking of a patient record to a medical device reprocessing record. This is a unique challenge for ultrasound, as the versatility and portability of...

Ms Fiona Gotterson1,2, Professor  Kirsty  Buising1,2,3,4, Associate Professor  Lisa Hall5, Professor Elizabeth Manias4,6, Dr  Arjun Rajkhowa1,2 1Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Australia 2National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship, Peter Doherty...

Mr Aryan Shahabi-sirjani1, Mr Andrew Gibb1, Dr Jonathan Burdach1 1Nanosonics, Macquarie Park, Australia Emergency departments (ED) are the most complex health care delivery environments. Procedures are often performed under time pressure, with patients being of unknown infectious status. Ultrasound is...

Ms Frances Sheehan1,2, Dr Meru Sheel1, Dr Kathryn Daveson2, Dr  Karina Kennedy1,2 1Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 2The Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia Method: Using data from ACT Pathology, we identified all episodes of ESBL E. coli blood stream infection from...