In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, ICHE Editor-in-Chief, David Calfee, MD, MS, interviews members of the infection control unit, the biothreats program, and the infection disease division at Massachusetts General Hospital who were involved in the diagnosis and management of the first US recognized case of monkeypox of the current outbreak. They discuss the current global outbreak in relation to infection prevention and control in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Guests include Erica Shenoy, MD, PhD, Nesli Basgoz, MD, Kimon Zachary, MD, Eileen F. Searle, PhD, RN, CCRN, Meredith Fahy, MPH, RN, CIC.

This episode of the ICHE Podcast discusses the latest update to the Compendium, Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update. ICHE Editor-in-Chief David P. Calfee, MD, MS interviews Michael Klompas, MD, Gregory P. Priebe, MD, and Eric C. Eichenwald, MD. The discuss updates to the document including changes to the essential and additional practices as well as implementation strategies. Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update is available in the June issue of ICHE and can be found here: www.cambridge.org/iche.

This episode of the ICHE Podcast discusses the Compendium and the newly released update to the Compendium, Strategies to Prevent Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Acute-Care Hospitals: 2022 Update. ICHE Editor-in-Chief David P. Calfee, MD, MS interviews Debbie Yokoe, MD, MPH, Lisa Maragakis, MD, MPH and Len Mermel, DO, ScM. First, they discuss the history of the Compendium, and review overall changes to the 2022 updates. Then, Dr. Len Mermel shares updates to the CLABSI document including changes to the essential and additional practices as well as implementation strategies. Strategies to Prevent CLABSI in Acute-Care Hospitals: 2022 Update is available in the May issue of ICHE and can be found here: www.cambridge.org/iche.

This episode of the ICHE Podcast features two segments. In the first segment, David P. Calfee, interviews Diego Schaps and Deverick J. Anderson about two articles they published in the April issue on medical transport-associated infections. In the second segment, Dr. Calfee interviews Amanda Ullman and Tricia Kleidon to discuss their analysis of 42,562 hospitalized medical patients to determine whether antimicrobial and antithrombogenic PICC materials prevent catheter complications. The full April issue of ICHE is available here: https://www.cambridge.org/iche.

In this episode of the ICHE Podcast, Editor-in-Chief, David P. Calfee, MD, MS, interviews Michael Klompas, MD and Dian Baker, PhD on their work on the topic of nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia. Drs. Calfee, Klompas, and Baker discuss two papers from the March issue of ICHE, as well as several recent publications. Article list below.

Baker DL, Giuliano KK. Prevention practices for nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia: A survey of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Research Network (SRN). ICHE 2022;43(3):

Klompas M, Baker DL. Finding the balance between overtreatment versus undertreatment for hospital-acquired pneumonia. ICHE 2022;43(3):

Munro SC, Baker DL, Giuliano KK, … Klompas M. Nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia. A call to action: recommendations from the National Organization to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (NOHAP) among nonventilated patients. ICHE 2021;42(8-August): 991-996

Lacerna CC, et al. A successful program preventing nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in a large hospital system. ICHE 2020;41:547-552.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, David Calfee interviews Dan Livorsi and Julie Szymczak on their white paper, "Leveraging implementation science to advance antibiotic stewardship practice and research," featured in the February 2022 issue of ICHE.

White paper available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/leveraging-implementation-science-to-advance-antibiotic-stewardship-practice-and-research/755938646D2BA89405922D85A59EAA32

The ICHE Podcast is back! In this episode, Editor-in-Chief David P. Calfee, MD, MS discusses the rise in HAIs since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Guests on this episode are Maggie Dudeck, MPH, David Kuhar, MD, David Henderson, MD, Tara Palmore, MD, Mohamad Fakih, MD, Julie Szymczak, PhD, and Lona Mody, MD. Be sure to read the full January issue available at https://www.cambridge.org/iche.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast Dr. Jennie Kwon and Carey-Ann Burnham discuss their article, “Assessment of antibiotic-resistant organism transmission among rooms of hospitalized patients, healthcare personnel, and the hospital environment utilizing surrogate markers and selective bacterial cultures,” from the May 2020 issue of ICHE (Volume 41, Issue 5). Listen and learn more about the research her team conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered. Note that this article is available for Journal CME. Go to learningce.shea-online.org/ and browse the Course Catalog for Journal CME 2020 to quickly and easily earn your credits. All Journal CME is free for SHEA members.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast Dr. Colleen Kraft discusses her article, “Serosurvey on healthcare personnel caring for patients with Ebola virus disease and Lassa virus in the United States,” from the April 2020 issue of ICHE (Volume 41, Issue 4). Listen and learn more about the research her team conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered. Note that this article is available for Journal CME. Go to learningce.shea-online.org/ and browse the Course Catalog for Journal CME 2020 to quickly and easily earn your credits. All Journal CME is free for SHEA members.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, Milner Staub and Chris Evans discuss their article, “Analysis of a high-prescribing state’s 2016 outpatient antibiotic prescriptions: Implications for outpatient antimicrobial stewardship interventions,” from the February 2020 issue of ICHE (Volume 41, Issue 2). Listen and learn more about the research they conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered. Note that this article is available for Journal CME. Go to https://learningce.shea-online.org/ and browse the Course Catalog for Journal CME 2020 to quickly and easily earn your credits. All Journal CME is free for SHEA members.