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Videos

Investigators look for and find MRSA and C difficil widespread on floors, especially in patient rooms, and MRSA inside NICU isolette beds. 


Fighting Pathogens in a Children’s Hospital: Two Posters at APIC Conference

The wearable wristband works with location sensors throughout the hospital to track HH and HCW behavior, and then pairs with an app that analyzes individual performance.

Digital Wristband Provides a Fuller Picture of Hand Hygiene Compliance in an Intensive Care Unit

“Of all the SSIs we culled over that 3 years, about 42% of them required a wound class change by an infection preventionist,” Emily Grohs, MPH, CIC, tells ICT®.

How Wound Classification Impacts Surgical Site Infection Rate

The infection preventionist’s role extends far beyond simply surveillance activities and into  an integrated member of design and operations.


IPs Should Serve in Off-Site Sterilization Policy Development/Compliance 

The IP’s role in vaccine compliance has traditionally centered on influenza shots, but that all changed with SARS-CoV-2.

Infection Preventionists Spearhead SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Efforts as Trusted Leaders

Trained observers at a pediatric hospital in south Texas relied on the app for hand hygiene observation collections between June 18 and November 30, 2021, and logged a 140% increase in observations collected.

Mobile App Significantly Boosts Hand Hygiene Observation Collection, Streamlines Process

Articles

Take 5 minutes to catch up on Infection Control Today’s highlights for the week ending June 10. 


Weekly Rounds: How Much Threat Is Monkeypox Really, Biosafety Measures, and more

AMR and surgical site infections are a consistent issue for surgeries, and often surgeons feel they have done everything they can to reduce the risk, and yet the event still occurs with an alarming frequency. Is there anything novel that can be done? ICT® tries to find out. 


Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance With a New Weapon

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 

Infection preventionists in both the home health care and acute care settings need to communicate and collaborate with each other for the best outcome for the patient. 
