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Rescuscitation
Time to wake this sleeping blog up I think. Plenty of material out there. I’m just back from a trip to Asia, including the APSIC meeting in Taiwan. What struck me was the huge amount of interest in the...
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And we wonder why E. coli bacteraemia is rising..
Leicester incontinence sufferer ‘too frightened’ to drink water – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-32222349 Is there a link between gram-negative bacteraemia and hydration? Evidence...
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Pseudomonas – I keep getting that ‘sinking’ feeling
Yet another study has just appeared in AJIC ‘In Press’ that reports on a long-term, discontinuous ‘outbreak’ of Pseudomonas (see http://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553%2815%2900138-8/abstract)....
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PPE – help or hindrance?
Much attention on the use (and misuse) of PPE over the past months. I have always thought it to be a good thing if used well but this paper seems to suggest that universal use of gloves and gowns could...
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Time to really recognise the importance of Prevention
Pretty worrying editorial in Clinical Infectious Diseases this month, discussing the issue of Polymixin resistance in Acinetobacter. So basically no treatment options and an attributable mortality of...
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C’est difficile
Two new interesting papers in ICHE, both of significance I think. The first from Kings’ College Guy’s and St Thomas’ in London examines the degree of environmental contamination from patients with...
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The light of day
Well, I’m two days in to my first ECCMID meeting, and what can I say, it’s huge. There also seems to be a bit of IPC creeping in, however one thing has struck me. There has been debate as to whether...
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Voss + Kiernan + Otter = Reflections on Infection Prevention and Control!
Not so long ago, we (that is Andreas Voss, Martin Kiernan and Jon Otter) put our heads together and started talking along the lines of “a team is greater than the sum of its parts”…and the...
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Hot stuff?
So I’m really quite interested in seasonality of infections. I first became interested in it when looking at increases in E. coli bacteraemia for ARHAI (report here) because of Jennie Wilson’s...
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You wait for ages, and then two come at once..
Sometimes waiting for research highlighting an issue that you know is a problem is like waiting for a bus.. Following on from my colleague @jonotter who last week posted about MRSA spread in nursing...
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The 30-Second-Questionnaire: Antibiotic Myth Buster
Here we are again, the year flew by and it’s time for Antibiotic Awareness Day/Week. This time around, I will spend my time in a call-center, answering questions of concerned citizens/ex-patients in...
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And we wonder why E. coli bacteraemia is rising..
Leicester incontinence sufferer ‘too frightened’ to drink water – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-32222349 Is there a link between gram-negative bacteraemia and hydration? Evidence...
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Pseudomonas – I keep getting that ‘sinking’ feeling
Yet another study has just appeared in AJIC ‘In Press’ that reports on a long-term, discontinuous ‘outbreak’ of Pseudomonas (see http://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553%2815%2900138-8/abstract)....
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PPE – help or hindrance?
Much attention on the use (and misuse) of PPE over the past months. I have always thought it to be a good thing if used well but this paper seems to suggest that universal use of gloves and gowns could...
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Time to really recognise the importance of Prevention
Pretty worrying editorial in Clinical Infectious Diseases this month, discussing the issue of Polymixin resistance in Acinetobacter. So basically no treatment options and an attributable mortality of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
C’est difficile
Two new interesting papers in ICHE, both of significance I think. The first from Kings’ College Guy’s and St Thomas’ in London examines the degree of environmental contamination from patients with...
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The light of day
Well, I’m two days in to my first ECCMID meeting, and what can I say, it’s huge. There also seems to be a bit of IPC creeping in, however one thing has struck me. There has been debate as to whether...
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Science in transition, or not?
Something is happening in my university. My dean, prof. Frank Miedema (H-index >70), and friends discovered that the blibliometric way of evaluating quality of science (of a person or an institute)...
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The day after the WIP died
Yesterday, Andreas Voss heartbreakingly described the end of the Workinggroup Infection Prevention (WIP) in the Netherlands. Yet, the end of the WIP is not the end of the Netherlands. The WIP...
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Good in 2017: preprint publishing
My blog on the “disease called peer review” (Dec 12th) evoked many comments (including from some journal editors), and these directed me to the concept of preprint publishing. Physicists started this...
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