Search Tag: infection prevention
2022 14 Aug
Canada-based Medicom Group, a world leader in the production and distribution of infection prevention and control solutions , is pleased to announce the appointment of Guillaume Laverdure as CEO. He succeeds Ronald Reuben, founder of the company, and becomes the second person in the history of the group to hold this position. Mr. Laverdure has most...Read more
2020 12 Oct
Spea kers: MONDAY 12TH OCTOBER – FUTURE PROOFING – PRESENTATIONS Martin Kiernan Visiting Clinical Fellow, Richard Wells Research Centre, University of West London Professor Enrique Castro-Sánchez Lecturer, City, University of London TUESDAY 13TH OCTOBER – RESILIENCE - PRESENTATION Professor Cath Noakes...Read more
2019 12 Sep
ICUs in the UK have seen an 80% drop in bloodstream infections according to NIHR Guy's and St Thomas' Biomedical Research Centre-funded research. In collaboration with Guy's and St Thomas' clinicians and researchers from ICNARC (Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre), the study analysed 1 million adult patients from 276 NHS ICUs across the...Read more
2016 07 Mar
Evaluation of a central catheter maintenance bundle developed to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) found that it led to decreased infection rates, according to a study published in the American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC) . The bundle comprises 14 items and has a 5 point checklist to monitor compliance. In this...Read more
2016 16 Mar
IFIC2016 finds itself in Vienna, the ‘City of Music’. It is a city with strong associations with Ignaz Semmelweis, the father of modern “hygiene”, and thus of healthcare infection prevention and control. Today, this field of work is – as many other aspects of our lives – confronted with intriguing perspectives as well as frightening but exciting challenges....Read more
2015 13 Aug
A randomised trial of more than 16,000 households in the UK used a web-based programme to encourage more frequent hand washing and found that it reduces the risk of catching and passing on respiratory tract infections to other household members. The research has been published in The Lancet. The programme called PRIMIT also showed that users of the...Read more
2015 03 Jul
According to a new research, collecting and reporting data to federal health agencies is not the soundest of strategies. The study was presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). The research was conducted by infection preventionists at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital...Read more
2015 24 Apr
According to a report by the researchers from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, interventions focused on evidence-based infection prevention practices, safety culture and teamwork, and scheduled measurement of infection rates considerably reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) across intensive...Read more