Intravenous lines are an integral component of modern medical care. Can we imagine delivering care without it? However, they are not without harm. On this episode, host Dr Vindana Chibabhai talks to Dr Molebogeng Kolojane about catheter related bloodstream infections - what they are, risk factors, diagnosis, management...and of course, preventing them!

About our Guest:

Dr Molebogeng Kolojane is a Clinical Microbiologist at the National Health Laboratory Service and a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is based at the Infection Control Services Laboratory (ICSL) at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) in South Africa. Molebogeng is practicing as an outreach pathologist in the Johannesburg West Rand and Ekurhuleni District hospitals. Her special interests are in Infectious Diseases, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), and is involved in outbreak investigation, establishing antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs in outreach health care facilities and supports laboratories in district hospitals.

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