On this episode of The ICHE Podcast, Editor-in-Chief, David Calfee, MD, MS speaks with Thomas R. Talbot, MD, MPH, Jennifer Cihlar, DO, Jerome Leis, MD, MSc, and Emil Lesho, DO. Today’s guests discuss several articles in the January issue of ICHE that address asymptomatic testing for SARS COV-2. The panelists discuss their original research, considerations initiating or dismantling an asymptomatic testing program, and a recently published SHEA Board of Trustees Commentary on the topic of asymptomatic screening. After listening, be sure to visit cambridge./org/iche to read the full articles discussed in today’s episode.

On this episode of The ICHE Podcast, Editor-in-Chief, David Calfee, MD, MS speaks with Charlesnika Evans, PhD, MPH, Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH, Rekha Murthy, MD, and Costi Sifri, MD . Today’s guests discuss recently published ICHE articles related to vaccination of healthcare personnel against SARS COV-2 and influenza. They address why HCP vaccination against respiratory viruses is important, barriers to achieving high rates of HCP vaccination, and strategies to improve HCP acceptance of vaccination. After listening, be sure to visit cambridge./org/iche to read the full articles discussed in today’s episode.

It’s Antimicrobial Awareness Week! To kick off the week, Editor-in-Chief, David P. Calfee, MD, MS is joined by several authors of a SHEA White Paper, “SHEA statement on antibiotic stewardship in hospitals during public health emergencies.” Today’s guests include Tamar Barlam, MD, MSc, Mayar Al Mohajer, MD, MBA, Alan Gross, PharmD, Graeme Forrest, MBBS. Learn more about key findings and recommendations from this paper and hear our guests discuss how listeners can take these findings and prepare our hospitals and our ASPs for a future public health crisis.

On this episode of The ICHE Podcast, Editor-in-Chief, David Calfee, MD, MS speaks with Kalvin Yu, MD, Raymund Dantes, MD, MPH, Gregory Schrank, MD, MPH, and Surbhi Leekha, MBBS, MPH. Today’s guests are authors of two articles from the October issue of ICHE that discuss hospital onset bacteremia and fungemia, HOB as a quality measure, and addition of HOB measure to NHSN. After listening, be sure to check out the October issue of ICHE for the full articles discussed in today’s episode.

In today's episode of The ICHE Podcast, ICHE Editor-in-Chief, David Calfee, MD, MS, interviews Aurora Pop-Vicas, MD, MPH, Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, and• Joel Mumma, PhD. They discuss two articles from the September issue of ICHE that both studied HCW’s mental models of infection prevention-related tasks and activities.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, ICHE Editor-in-Chief David Calfee interviews authors of three papers featured in the August issue of the journal on the topic of COVID-19 in long-term care settings. Specifically, they discuss some of the systemic factors that have contributed to disparities in COVID-19 outcomes and burden in long-term care settings. Guests on today’s episode include Helena Temkin-Greener, Wenhan Guo, Ghinwa Dumyati, and Shelley Magill.

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.