Implementing the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare Peripheral Intravenous Clinical Care Standard at Healthscope Hospitals Nicola Isles11Healthscope, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Background The Australian Commission on Safety in Quality in Healthcare (ACSQHC) released the Peripheral Intravenous Catheter (PIVC)...
- August 10, 2023
Materials Compatibility – what does it mean to IPC? Jake Jennings11Gama Healthcare, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Introduction Whilst the cleaning and disinfecting of surfaces and medical devices is a key focus of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practice, the compatibility of...
- August 10, 2023
A comparison of low-level to high-level disinfection in eliminating microorganisms from ultrasound transducers used on skin: a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial. Nathan Peters1,2,3, Frances Williamson1,2, Michelle Bauer4, Stacey Llewellyn5, Peter Snelling2,6,7, Nicole Marsh1,2,7, Patrick Harris4,9, Adam Stewart4,9, Claire Rickard1,2,7,8, ,...
- August 10, 2023
Epidemiology of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in Western Australian (WA) healthcare facilities, 2012 to 2022 Khui Hung Lee1, Liana Varrone1, Inutu Kashina1, Olivia Kamau1, Lisa Nicolaou1, Rebecca McCann11Infection Prevention, Policy & Surveillance Unit, Communicable Disease Control Directorate, Western Australia Department, East...
- August 10, 2023
A new reliable method for testing the performance of pre-moistened cleaning wipes against bacteria and bacterial biofilms Greg Whiteley1,2,3, Trevor Glasbey3, Theerthankar Das21University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine & Health, Ultimo, NSW, Australia2Western Sydney University, School of Medicine, Campbelltown, NSW,...
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Biofilm Mediated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and the challenge of interventional treatments
Greg Whiteley1,2,3, Jim Manos1, Arthika Manoharan1, Trevor Glasbey3 1University Of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine & Health, Ultimo, NSW, Australia 2Western Sydney University, School of Medicine, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 3Whiteley Corporation, North Sydney, NSW, Australia Introduction Antimicrobial Resistance is an unresolved...
- August 10, 2023