[…] , 2015) · CPO s are an important emerging medical concern in healthcare settings · 21 new cases of CPO were identified among patients in Q 1 in BC acute care facilities · NDM was the most common gene identified (1 1/2 1 cases, 5 2.4 % ) · 17 cases (81.0%) reported healthcare exposure outside Canada Carbapenems are a class of antibiotic usually reserved to...
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[…] work Dr Anne-Gaëlle Venier, MD, PhD Cpias Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux, France @AgVenier anne-gaelle,venier@chu-bordeaux,fr Flu.0 © www.webbertraining.com February 22, 2018 Hosted by Jim Gauthier Senior Clinical Advisor Infection Control Diversey WHO RCA definition Systematic analysis of all the factors which (…) have the potential to prevent an error Can be applied to incidents or to ‘near misses’ Explains how the incident occurred Designs mechanisms to prevent <mark...
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[…] to, has received travel support from, and presented at meetings sponsored by GOJO Industries and Diversey, and has been a consultant to Sodexo Healthcarewww.webbertraining.comNovember 16, 2023 Background•Quaternary ammonium compound (QACs), first emerged in 1935 with the introduction of benzalkonium chloride (BAC), a frequently used quaternary ammonium compound•In 1947, the first QAC-based disinfectant was marketed in U.S.•QACs have been widely used in the U.S. for...
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[…] to February 2022. Journal Four-Year Environmental Surveillance Program of Legionella spp. in One of Palermo’s Largest Hospitals. Journal Public health, buy-in from gay and bisexual men helped get Canada’s mpox outbreak under control. News Canadians fined at least $15M for breaking COVID quarantine rules in 2022, data shows. News US considers Covid-19 measures for travelers from China. News Influenza, RSV...
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World. Mumbai, India. Leprosy cases spikes in 2018 from prev year. As per data, 10% of the new cases were found in children, a sign of the diseases actively spreading. News. Canada sending emergency management expert to help fight Ebola in West Africa. News. USA. A research consortium has begun enrolling patients in a clinical trial to determine whether fecal microbiota transplantation delivered by...
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[…] to a nurse before he died. It has been known for five years that some ticks in Spain harbored the virus. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is fatal in about 30 percent of cases, according to the World Health Organization. It is normally found in Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans and Central Asia south of Kazakhstan. It killed 20 people in Pakistan this year. Although...
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[…] their defensive walls rather than attacking the bacteria itself. It means that in future, bacteria may not develop drug-resistance at all. The team, supported by the Wellcome Trust, used Diamond Light Source, one of the world’s most advanced scientific machines, to investigate a class of bacteria called ‘Gram-negative bacteria’. Gram-negative bacteria is particularly resistant to antibiotics because of its cells’ impermeable lipid-based outer...
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[…] with you. Returns We welcome back Jenn Diep, Project Manager, and Tara Donovan, Network Director, who have both returned from maternity leave. Welcomes Mahta Khoshnam Tehrani We are thrilled to share the wonderful news that Mahta Khoshnam Tehrani has joined PICNet as our second temporary full-time Lead, Research and Knowledge Translation alongside Mahmood Rahman. Mahta holds a BSc, MsC and PhD in Electrical and...
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Excerpted from the Ottawa Citizen: The World Health Organisation is running phase III clinical trials for Ebola virus disease vaccine in Guinea. The technique being used is “ring vaccination” which was used in the 1970s to eradicate smallpox. Co-ordinated by the World Health Organization, the vaccine trial employed the same ring vaccination strategy that was used to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s....
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[…] are replaced with the more sophisticated layer of behaviors…which, in turn, is trumped by style…. The Circles are more than just another way of saying, "Don’t judge a book by its cover. " The corporate world spends a lot of time using personality profiles to improve communication. The hope is that the more each individual understands others’ style, the more effectively...
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[…] teleclasses for PICNet’s entire COP who may not otherwise have access throug h their employers. Webber Training is an international lecture series on topics of interest to infection control professionals and other health care professionals worldwide. A tota l of 38 training sessions were sponsored by PICNet between March 2009 and March 2010. Hand Hygiene Resource Page In January of 2010 PICNet launched its hand hygiene...
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[…] 2014 , P age s 33 a-c. Available from : http://www.bccdc.ca/dis -cond/comm - manual/CDManualChap2.htm 11. WHICH 3 INFLUENZA VI RUS STRAINS MAKE UP THIS YEAR’S SEASONAL TRIVALENT INFLUENZA VACCINES? Fo r the northern hemisphere the World Health Organization (WHO ) (5) recommends that the 2014 /2015 Seasonal Trivalent Influenza Vaccine (In activated and Live Attenuated) contain: A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)pdm09 -like virus A/Texas/50/2012 (H3N2) -like...
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[…] teleclasses for PICNet’s entire COP who may not otherwise have access throug h their employers. Webber Training is an international lecture series on topics of interest to infection control professionals and other health care professionals worldwide. A tota l of 38 training sessions were sponsored by PICNet between March 2009 and March 2010. Hand Hygiene Resource Page In January of 2010 PICNet launched its hand hygiene...
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[…] 2 nd or 3 rd Edition- Chapter 19 • Bennett JV & Brachman PS. Bennett & Brachman’s Hospital Infections. 5 th ed. Ed. William R Jarvis: Philadelphia, PA, 2007 – Chapter 3 Other readings • World Health Org anization: WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care. Orientation Program for Infection Control Pr ofessionals Hand Hygiene Module Page 2 Overview Hand hygiene has been identified as <mark...
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[…] investigate epidemiological links include group comparison. These would be considered analytic studies. • The majority are descriptive studies –Case series and case reports • ORION Checklist for Outbreak Reports –2009 ORION statement In The IPAC World We frequently are obliged to provide a recommendation by combining the information that is known about the organism/process/outcome along with a few weak/moderate design studies and...
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[…] Some that investigate epidemiological links include group comparison. These would be considered analytic studies. The majority are descriptive studies Case series and case reports ORION Checklist for Outbreak Reports 2009 ORION statement In The IPAC World We frequently are obliged to provide a recommendation by combining the information that is known about the organism/process/outcome along with a few weak/moderate design studies and...
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[…] can be fomites for microbe transmission Aluvis machine is effective at disinfecting hand- held devices, but requires some human factors optimization Ambient LED and White Light C ONCLUSION We are entering into an exciting new world of technology Need to balance cost with efficacy And consider human factors into the equation T HANK Y OU elizabeth.bryce@vch.ca References 1. Hamel M, Zoutman D, O’Callaghan C, Exposure to...
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[…] P f i z e r, We yth -Lederle DISCLOSURE Anything I say can be highly biased No offshore account ! all goes to the Hospital to pay research nurse data manager 2 ICUs, the world of infection 3 Where reality surpasses fiction 4 West ern Eu Eastern Eu South Amerika North Amerika Oceania A frika A sia 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70...
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[…] articles from search (1988-2012) but only 8 suitable 4 RCTS 3 consecutive studies 1 cohort (no controls) Sponges (3), beads (4), injection (1) Substantial heterogeneity in studies Evidence does not support perineal application of gentamicin World J Surg 2015; 39: 2786-2794 24 Gentamicin Collagen Sponges (GCS), Sternal SSI after Cardiac Surgery Phase 3, single blind, RCT of 1502 patients at high risk (DM or BMI> 30) JAMA...
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[…] important for public health and protection Training in routine and high level safe donning and doffing PPE is an essential component of preparedness Planning should allow for resources and sustainability 41 A bit of fun – a pandemic l imerick There was an infectious disease Which brought the whole world to its knees When they sneezed and they coughed We donned and we...
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