Join host, Kara Mullane, as she interviews Thomas Heymann, Executive Director of Sepsis Alliance. Learn about Sepsis you may just save a life by what you hear on this podcast!

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Join host, Kara Mullane, as she spotlights hand selected AJIC Abstracts - Nov & Dec 2017, Vol 45, No 11 & 12. Topics: Improving Central Line Maintenance and Nurse Driven CAUTI Prevention. Subscribe and never miss an episode!

Join host, Kara Mullane, as she interviews Dr. Tamás Haidegger of HandInScan and co-creator of the award winning Semmelweis Hand Hygiene System. Fostering technology-induced behavioral change in hand hygiene saves lives on a global scale. Learn how!

Join Kara Mullane as she spotlights hand selected AJIC Abstracts -  Dec 2017, Vol 45, No 12. Topics: A national collaborative approach to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections & Decreasing Indwelling catheter utilization.

Join Kara Mullane as she spotlights what is going on this flu season, how you can stay safe, and she also spotlights a hand selected AJIC abstract which surveyed healthcare worker during the 2014-2015 Flu season to see if they went to work with flu like symptoms.

(Correction for podcast: AJIC abstract survey for year 2014-2015 not the mentioned 2015-2016 flu season)

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Join Kara Mullane as she reads two selected AJIC Abstracts from Journal Oct 2017, Vol 45, No 10. Topics: Prospective clinical trial to assess peripheral venous catheter-related phlebitis using needleless connectors in a surgery department; Outbreak of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in different wards at a regional hospital related to untrained bedside caregivers. Subscribe and never miss and episode!

Join Kara Mullane as she reads two spotlighted AJIC Abstracts Journal Aug 2017, Vol 45, No 8. Topics: Risk Factors of cardiac device infection: Glove contamination during device procedures and Identification of low, high, and super gelers and barriers to hand hygiene among intensive care unit nurses.   Subscribe and never miss and episode!

Join host, Kara Mullane, as she interviews Nurse Inventor, Neil Morris. Neil had an idea of how to keep his patients safe from acquiring infections in the ICU where he was working. He then took the next step and started the process to invent a new product, the Basin Glove. Hear how Neil did it and he shares the steps to help other nurse inventors bring their great idea to market. Join Us!  Subscribe and never miss an episode!

Join Kara Mullane as she reads two selected AJIC Abstracts from Journal Oct 2017, Vol 45, No 10. Topics: Healthcare worker perspectives of their motivation to reduce health care-associate infections and Bacterial biofilm-based catheter-associated urinary tract infections: Causative pathogens and antibiotic resistance.

As a follow up to the biofilm topic, if you are a biofilm expert and can speak to specifics on how to stunt biofilm formation on medical devices such as urinary catheters we want to interview you! 

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Join Kara Mullane as she spotlights the issue of C.difficile and what we can do to go beyond the basics for prevention of this awful disease.  Don’t forget to download the infographic and talking points on InfectionPreventionSpotlight.com/episode006.

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