[…] and Communications Toolkit To help you plan your IC Week activities and promotion, PICNet has created a downloadable toolkit with a planning/resources template, 20 different activities to choose from, and communications tools such as sample newsletters, blog posts, and tweets. Download the Toolkit 2. “Let’s Go Viral!” Workshop In-A-Box Run your own training workshop with this educational game that PICNet has created to help you train your...
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About CPOs CPO Surveillance Program To review the quarterly reports click here. ...
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[…] Communications Toolkit To help you plan your IC Week activities and promotion, you can use PICNet’s downloadable toolkit, which contains a planning/resources template, 20 different activities to choose from, and communications tools such as sample newsletters, blog posts, and tweets. Download the Toolkit 2. “Let’s Go Viral!” Workshop In-A-Box Run your own training workshop with this educational game that PICNet has created to help you train your...
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[…] 2022) Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE): Non-AGMP (June 4, 2021): TEE decision summary Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy: Possible AGMP (May 10, 2021): Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) decision summary Vibrating mesh nebulizer Non-AGMP (Aug 15, 2023): Vibrating mesh nebulizer summary Videofluoroscopic swallow study: Non-AGMP (June 2, 2021) Signage Provincial AGMP Sign Requests for Review If you have a request for specific procedures for review by the B.C. AGMP expert group, contact picnet@phsa.ca...
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[…] Identifying true pathogens Avoidance of blood culture contamination Avoiding false positive CLABSIs 16 Need for Maximizing True Pathogens Septicemia is the 11 th leading cause of death in the U.S. accounting for more than 41,000+ lives per year Sepsis is currently the most expensive hospital condition ($23.6 billion) among inpatients ….has accounted for a 32 percent increase in hospitalizations in recent years …and is the leading cause...
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Merlee Steele-Rodway RN Educator/Consultant-IPAC/ MDR Safety in the Medical Device Reprocessing Department During COVID-19 1 Hosted by Garry Bassi Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto www.webbertraining.com March 25, 2021 Disclosures/Acknowledgements Images in this presentation were obtained from Google Images unless otherwise identified This presentation is for information as of the day of this presentation; ensure to review current National Standards and recommendations for COVID-19 Views and opinions expressed in this...
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[…] Search d ate: December 9 , 2020 Objective To summari ze the current evidence used to inform recommendations pertaining to TEE and AGMP status . Methods The B.C. AGMP expert group searched databases (Cochrane, PubMed, Google Scholar) for relevant primary evidence, review articles, and guidelines/recommendations from governing bodies, medical societies, and other expert groups. Search terms used : "aerosol generating medical procedure" OR "aerosol generating procedure"...
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Fluoroquinolones: Fluoroquinolones are a class of prescription antibiotic, approved for use in Canada to treat many types of bacterial infections, including respiratory and urinary tract infections. They include: ciprofloxacin (Cipro), moxifloxacin (Avelox), levofloxacin, norfloxacin and ofloxacin. Current labeling includes a warning that the drugs can lead to tendon ruptures. Health Canada Review: Health Canada reviewed the potential risk of side effects from the use of oral or injected fluoroquinolones, focusing on the more...
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PICNet October Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together! October 2014 PICNet 2015 Calendars - order by November 17! PICNet's 2015 Infection Control Calendars are ready to order! Based on your feedback, we have switched to a calendar year format (Jan-Dec) for PICNet's Infection Control Calendar. The 2015 calendar will be sent to the printers mid -November, so we need to receive your orders by Nove mber 17th . Your first calendar...
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[…] specimen collection from which a CPO gene was identified . For more information about CPO s and the provincial surveillance program, please visit the PICNet website at https://www.picnet.ca/surveillance/cpo . 1 These risk categories are not mutually exclusive – patients reporting healthcare exposure outside Canada may also have other risk factors identified. Health authority NDM OXA -48 KPC Total Interior Health 0 0 0 0 Fraser Health 6...
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[…] with other risk factors 1 . Sixteen cases (3 0.8 %) reported no known risk factors, meaning tha t the source of their CPO acquisition could not be identified. 1 These risk categories are not mutually exclusive – patients reporting healthcare exposure outside Canada may also have other risk factors identified. Provincial CPO Surveillance Update Q4 2017/2018 Page 3 Number of new cases of CPO identified in...
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[…] factors, meaning tha t the source of their CPO acquisition could not be identified. 1 Two isolates identified with MCR -1 gene during Q1 w ere not included . 2 These risk categories are not mutually exclusive – patients reporting healthcare exposure outside Canada may also have other risk factors identified. Provincial CPO Surveillance Update Q1 2018/19 Page 3 Figure 1. Distribution of carbapenemase resistance genes newly...
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[…] %) were associated with o ther risk factors listed in the provincial surveillance protocol 1. Ten cases (22.7 %) reported no risk factors included in the provincial surveillance protocol. 1 These risk categories are not mutually exclusive – patients reporting healthcare exposure outside Canada may also have other risk factors identified. Provincial CPO Surveillance Update Q2 of 2018/19 Page 3 Figure 1. Distribution of carbapenemase resistance genes...
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[…] %) were associated with other risk factors listed in the provincial surveillance protocol 1. Seven cases ( 17.1 %) reported no risk factors included in the provincial surveillance protocol. 1 These risk categories are not mutually exclusive – patients reporting healthcare exposure outside Canada may also be identified with other risk factors listed in the provincial surveillance protocol. Provincial CPO Surveillance Update Q3 of 2018/19 Page 3...
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