Ms Claire Dowling1, Mrs Samantha Butenko1, Karen McDonald1 1SA Health Covid Operations Infection Control Service, Adelaide, Australia Background: Facilitating safe passage of international travellers from disembarkation at Adelaide Airport to arrival at a supervised quarantine facility, including adherence to the...
- July 1, 2022
Ms Vivian Leung1,2,3, Ms Ana Suto1, Ms Elizabeth Orr1, A/Prof Caroline Marshall1,2,3 1Infection Prevention and Surveillance Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 2Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 3Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne at the...
- July 1, 2022
Ms Catina Eyres1, Ms. Jaimee Oxford1, Dr. Bruce Bolam1 1The Loddon Mallee Public Health Unit (LMPHU), Bendigo Health, Bendigo , Australia Method: With the majority of Australian IPC programs arising from acute and hospital related care, the challenge was to...
- July 1, 2022
Ms Stephanie Curtis1, Ms Abigail Trewin1, Ms Kathleen McDermott1, Ms Karen Were1, Dr Kate Clezy2, Ms Kathy Dempsey2, Dr Nick Walsh1 1National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Australia 2Clinical Excellence Commission, Sydney, Australia Introduction: Safe donning and doffing...
- July 1, 2022
Miss Melanie Grigg1, Mr Steven Delides 1Ecosafe International, Greenfields, Australia For healthcare facilities across Australia, implementing a water quality sampling program according to AS4187 requirements may have revealed previously undetected issues. Through encountering water quality results that exceed AS4187-stipulated limits,...
- July 1, 2022
Ms Nicole Tolhurst1, Ms Kathy Dempsey, Dr Susan Jain, Dr Anne Mok, Mr Garth Worboys 1Clinical Excellence Commission And HealthShare NSW, Sydney, Australia Project Aim: To implement a new auditing program and evaluate IPAC processes within PTS with the main...
- July 1, 2022
Ms Carolyn Clissold1 1Wellington Hospital Standard Precautions has been the cornerstone policy for Infection, Prevention and Control (IPC) for decades, yet health professionals often cannot name more than 1-2 key aspects of it. Standard Precautions, ie “the minimum infection prevention...
- July 1, 2022
Miss Sunny Traverse1 1Bene Aged Care, Adelaide, Australia COVID – 19 Management Development of a robust management plan can be the difference in the control of an outbreak and the responsiveness of the clinical team. During heightened periods a step...
- July 1, 2022
Ms Megan Brown, Ms Suzanne Alexander, Mr Scott Lang, Ms Alexis Lenton 1Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, , Australia 2Far West Local Health District, , Australia Introduction: In 2019 a rural Local Health District (LHD) in NSW was unable to...
- July 1, 2022
Dr Mary Wyer1,2,3, Dr Patricia E. Ferguson1,2,3,4, Dr Su-Yin Hor5, Dr Ruth Barratt6, Dr Arwen Morath1,7,8, Catherine Priestley1,2, Alice Polak1,2,8, Professor Lyn Gilbert3,7 1Sydney Institute For Infectious Diseases, Sydney, Australia 2New South Wales Biocontainment Centre, Westmead, Australia 3Infectious diseases, Westmead...
- July 1, 2022