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Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending May 20. 


Weekly Rounds: CLABSI Prevention, IP Experts Recommend Updates, and More 

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A new comprehensive article lays out best practice guidelines for 14 areas of infection prevention and control.  


Infection Prevention Experts Recommend Sweeping Updates

New study describes the case report and gives guidelines on how to prevent infection in the home. 


Home Bathroom Could be LVAD Driveline Infection Source 

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending May 13. 


Weekly Rounds: New COVID-19 Variants, Robotic Surgery Challenges, and more 

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending May 6.


Weekly Rounds: C diff and Candida auris Recontamination, Disrupting HAI Transmission, and More 

Candida auris environmental contamination is unlikely to be adequately controlled because re-contamination occurs within hours after disinfection.


Candida auris Rapidly Recontaminates Surfaces Around Patients’ Beds Despite Cleaning and Disinfection

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A patient has a higher risk of infection of C difficile in a hospital bed that previously held a patient who also had C difficile.


Can C difficile Infection Be Spread Via Hospital Beds?

Rich Prinz is global vice president of sales for EvaClean Infection Prevention Solutions by EarthSafe. Prinz has more than 2 decades of experience in leadership positions at major health care, hospitality, and industrial supply organizations. Highly skilled in partnership management and targeted education, Prinz has developed process improvement Initiatives for health care networks throughout the country. He has established training programs consistent with Joint Commission Standards for operating rooms, infection prevention, environmental services, and sterile processing. Originally from Chicago, Prinz relocated to Massachusetts in 2014 with his family.

Time, staff, and budget constraints make it difficult to expand HAI mitigation programs despite the obvious and urgent need to do so.  

Environmental Measures Disrupt Transmission of HAIs

SHARON WARD-FORE, MS, MT(ASCP), CIC, FAPIC, is an infection prevention consultant located in Chicago. She is also a member of Infection Control Today®’s Editorial Advisory Board.

Linda Lybert is a health care surface safety expert, executive director of the Healthcare Surfaces Institute, and president of Healthcare Surface Consulting. She focuses on surfaces and their role in the acquisition and transmission of pathogens, as well as how they can cause health care–associated infections.

The surface material and product damage caused by new advances in disinfection technology must be addressed for patient safety.