RT @LCigolot: NEW @europarl_en Resolution on EU action to combat #AMR points out a 3 pronged approach combining prudent use of #antibiotics, implementing #infectionprevention & control measures, promoting research & development @weisspernille @woelken @BillyKelleherEU @MetzTilly @anjahazekamp https://t.co/hfTPCQatzW

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/BillyKelleherEU/status/1662048304585162752

#HandHygiene #CleanHands #infectionprevention

"Although it is imperative to prevent healthcare-associated spread of respiratory pathogens, we must critically assess interventions that, when added upon core layers of infection prevention, may not attain the intended impact & may have unintended consequences"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36539917/ #InfectionPrevention #infectioncontrol

If you are interested in #infectioncontrol we have a podcast called Infection Control Matters. It’s free, not sponsored, no ads. Available on many podcast providers - Apple, Google, Spotify etc. In a relaxed way, we talk about new research and with clinicians, academics and authors from across the world. @emrsa15 #Infectionprevention #infection https://infectioncontrolmatters.podbean.com

🕊 🦩🦢 LOOKING FOR A NEW BIRD. TWITTER🐦🐤🐣🦆 CHANGED 💨 SCIENCE 🏥 BUT MAY STOP⁉️ 🦜🦚 *On the impact of twitter on science, and the damage done by the new owner.* (via Marion Koopmans @MarionKoopmans virology; public health; preparedness research )
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04506-6 20DEC2022 #SARSCoV2 #healtheducation #epidemiology #virology #health #AirQuality #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention
#infectioncontrol

Wonderful comments on building a career in #ID from Dr. Richard Wenzel

-Although focused on people in #InfectionPrevention comments are broadly applicable

-Outstanding comments on what makes a good mentor

-Challenges us to ask and pursue important and often difficult research questions

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/8678F680465D61BFB677FD49C7888987/S2732494X22003527a.pdf/notes-to-a-young-epidemiologist.pdf

I am excited to share our @ASHE_Journal paper on system approaches to #InfectionPrevention!!

✳️Little to nothing on this in the literature
✳️Includes practical info for people in or thinking about system IP roles
✳️Grateful for opportunity to share!

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antimicrobial-stewardship-and-healthcare-epidemiology/article/at-the-vanguard-leaders-perspectives-on-establishing-healthcare-system-infection-prevention-programs/EDF8ACD8BEE4C573768BCA549EC39CF6

🚽💨 “The study found that these airborne particles shoot out quickly, at speeds of 6.6 feet (2 meters) per second, reaching 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) above the toilet within 8 seconds.”

#InfectionPrevention #IDMastondon

https://www.healthcarehygienemagazine.com/scientists-shine-a-light-on-what-comes-up-when-the-toilet-is-flushed/

Lots of great free outbreak response content available here:
https://www.corha.org/resources/corha-principles-and-practices-for-outbreak-response/

#InfectionPrevention #AntibioticResistance

Great new paper from folks at Duke on using some statistical methods to detect outbreaks of NTM above baseline rates

"On average, SPC detection occurred 6 months earlier than actual outbreak detection"

Would love to see #InfectionPrevention adopt this 👏 #IDMastodon #MedMastodon

📄: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciac923/6850553?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

What would the pandemic look like now if we universally adopted the use of high-quality #N95sForAll earlier?

What if governments put effort into ensuring everyone had free access to N95s? (They did this for RATs in Ontario!).

And where could we be later in 2023 if we started a #N95Revolution today?

Quality masks = #HarmReduction and #InfectionPrevention !

#CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #WeNotMe

@Htaggert @Tnicholsmd TY for sharing! So important right now to figure out how to support/grow our #InfectionPrevention workforce

@doxy_cycling @Tnicholsmd

So sorry to hear this!! #InfectionPrevention lost a lot of good people because of the pandemic for sure. Hope you landed in a good spot!

@Tnicholsmd burn out a big problem for #InfectionPrevention professionals too: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antimicrobial-stewardship-and-healthcare-epidemiology/article/rising-from-the-pandemic-ashes-reflections-on-burnout-and-resiliency-from-the-infection-prevention-and-antimicrobial-stewardship-workforce/85497311F633AFF243E6291F42D7638F

Proposing a new #IDMastodon theme song for #InfectionPrevention posse people too. Twitter was kind of wild but Mastodon has me feeling calmer… catching some #PeterTosh #Reggaemylitis https://youtu.be/q0j1mfJeNLE

Proposing a new #IDMastodon theme song for #InfectionPrevention posse people too. Twitter was kind of wild but Mastodon has me feeling calmer… catching some #PeterTosh #Reggaemylitis https://youtu.be/q0j1mfJeNLE

One of my favorite parts of my job @WVUMedicine is getting to visit our #InfectionPrevention providers at our system facilities; has also been a terrific way to see #wildandwonderful WV (& PA/OH/MD)!!

#IDMastodon #IDTwitter

Hello #MedMaston +++!!

Looks like a lot of people are using an #introduction when starting on the platform!

I am an infectious diseases doc migrating from #twitter who works in #InfectionPrevention and who recently had the great fortune to start at #WVU as the System Healthcare Epidemiologist

Interested in all things ID, preventing infections and antimicrobial & diagnostic stewardship!

#introductions

In the US, our team has shown extensive contamination of ‘clean’ healthcare laundry with Mucorales and other molds.
📄: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30299481/

Further, we showed the steps in which contamination can occur at these unregulated linen facilities
📄: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34282829/

Regulation of these facilities is tricky - hoping to see some change in coming years from federal bodies on minimal standards for patient safety! #InfectionPrevention #IDMastodon

An article out in ICHE this month further showed the importance of #InfectionPrevention controls for laundry. #IDMastodon

❗️58 patients with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in 4 months @ 1 hospital
➡️ Source traced back to contaminated cooler fans in the in-house laundry facility
🦠 Caused contam of clean linens

📄: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/abs/clean-clothes-or-dirty-clothes-outbreak-investigation-of-carbapenemresistant-acinetobacter-baumannii-related-to-laundry-contamination-through-multilocus-sequence-typing-mlst/FFA3F3526F1236BE8BA9E01CFBEDA885