Latest episode of the 'Infection Control Matters' podcast out today and Jon Otter and I discuss the challenges of resistance plasmids to infection prevention. #FIS2023 What can be done?
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The most viewed poster in my category (1/1) 😉🥳 ACIPC #ACIPC2023

November 3 is One Health Day, raising awareness of this transdisciplinary approach to today’s critical global health challenges.
It aims to enhance human, animal & environmental health and well-being through the diversity of One Health sciences & perspectives.

#onehealthday

New podcast today and Brett Mitchell and I discuss a paper on the potential pitfalls of ice machines, especially decontamination and the joys of manufacturers instructions..
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Big congratulations Jenny. So well deserved. You are a great leader, mentor, teacher and researcher. ACU are very lucky to have you.

Fantastic to have the guidelines endorsed by ACRRM ASIDANZ CRANAplus Heart Foundation Menzies Research Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Doherty Institute Public Health Association Australia QAIHC_QLD The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Telethon Kids Institute and Australasian College of Dermatologists WCVID UWA Research

In this double-blind, randomized trial, vancomycin was added to cefazolin as surgical prophylaxis for arthroplasty. Surgical-site infections occurred in 4.5% of vancomycin recipients and 3.5% of placebo recipients. Full results of the ASAP trial: nej.md/3S4XNVU

Read about the ASAP Trial Results in the Guardian Australia - 'Prescribing more antibiotics to patients undergoing joint replacement surgery does not prevent infections despite being a common practice...' ➡️ shorturl.at/fLS04

Congratulations Martin. So very deserved.

Latest podcast now online and I talk to Ginny Moore about detection of Staph. capitis in Neonatal ICUs and challenges in decontamination. infectioncontrolmatters.com/latest/ Derren Ready also talking S. capitis at #ip2023conf

Just published 😷🏥 #leadershipforgood #infectiousdiseases #infectioncontrol #infectionprevention Brett Mitchell Phil Russo Elsevier Australia University of Sydney Sydney Health Western Sydney Health Robyn Ward Brendan McCormack

Final chance for Australian nurses ACN to participate in an anonymous survey about oral care. ~15 minutes to complete. This will help inform a nurse led multi-centre RCT in 2024. Thank you to our many partners, including ACN

Survey link: redcap.link/happen

For ACN members, you will see in the weekly newsletter a request to seek input into oral care practice and pneumonia prevention. Please help by completing a survey. Survey information details: redcap.link/happen This will help inform a larger RCT next year.

Coming soon! Phil Russo Brett Mitchell & Deborough Macbeth ACIPC ASIDANZ Elsevier Australia

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I’m standing for election 🗳️ as President for Australian College of Mental Health Nurses #MentalHealthNursing #AskAMentalHealthNurse #Transform23 #TopTen priorities #Vote1 🙏 Please help spread the word to Australian College of Mental Health Nurses 🇦🇺✅🙏

Across the UK nurses are not getting their share of research funding - seems to be an international challenge #RCNResearch23 UOW School of Nursing University of Stirling

For ACN members, you will see in the weekly newsletter a request to seek input into oral care practice and pneumonia prevention. Please help by completing a survey. Survey information details: redcap.link/happen This will help inform a larger RCT next year.

The SNAP Trial now has 81 active sites, including first in South Africa.

Open for 18 months. 1298 participants total. Averaging 2 participants per site per month. 162 participants in August.

2406 randomisations.

Joshua Davis Todd C. Lee @tomboylesID