2016 ACIPC

Terry Grimmond 1, Nicole Vause 2, Jane Woodley 3 1 Grimmond and Associates, Microbiology Consultants, Hamilton, New Zealand 2 Mt Gambier & Districts HS, Country Health SA Local Health Network, Mt Gambier, SA, Australia 3 Workforce Directorate, Workforce Health, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, SA Health, Adelaide, SA, Australia   Introduction Early results of a preliminary survey of Australasian...

Holly Seale 1 1 Senior Lecturer, University Of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia   Introduction: Any approach promoting a culture of safety and the prevention of healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) should involve all stakeholders, including by definition the patients themselves. This qualitative study explored the knowledge...

Janine Malcolm 1, Maree Sommerville 1, David Isaacs 1 1 Mercy Health, Werribee, VIC, Australia   Introduction It is important to maintain a database of employee immune status for vaccine preventable diseases (VPD). Many facilities request information from new staff on commencement of employment however it is important to have...

Marcel Leroi 1 1 Microbiologist And Infectious Diseases Physician, Austin Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia   Abstract Title: Screening of high risk patients for CPE in a Victorian tertiary referral centre: a pilot study. Introduction: Screening of Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) has recently been...

Cameron Jones 1 1 Director, Biological Health Services, Toorak, VIC, Australia   Introduction Property managers are increasingly presented with claims of adverse health complaints from residential and commercial tenants especially following unexpected water ingress. There is a need for a rapid and cost effective OHS first-response while...

Joanna Harris 1 1 Manager, Infection Management And Control Service, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong, NSW, Australia   Introduction Contact Precautions (CP), first prescribed in managing patients with multi-resistant organisms (MROs) in the 1970s, continue to be used in today’s healthcare across the developed world. This...

Helen Cadwallader 1, David Speers 1,2, Michelle Harvey 1 1 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia 2 PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Nedlands, WA, Australia   BACKGROUND VRE screening and isolation for higher risk patients has been performed by WA hospitals for many years. Despite this, the number of VRE detections in WA has been increasing...

Beth Bint 1, Joanna Harris 1 1 Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong, NSW, Australia   Introduction This presentation describes our response to an 80% increase in the monthly rate of LSCS associated surgical site infections (SSI) in a 500 bed tertiary referral hospital in NSW. The service undertakes...

Usha Balasundaram 1, Shanmuga Vadivoo Natarajan 1 1 Annapoorana Medical College & Hospital, Salem, Tamilnadu, India   Introduction: Medical students should have adequate Infection control knowledge for better compliance. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of structured training on improving the infection control practices. Method: This study...

Sue Atkins 1 1 Regional Infection Control Consultant, Department Of Health And Human Services, Ballarat, VIC, Australia   Background In the Grampians Region Victoria acute healthcare services there is either an Emergency Department staffed with medical and nursing expertise at all times, or an Urgent Care Center...