Special Seminar Professor Daniel Sexton MD, Duke University “The role of the environment in the transmission of healthcare associated infections”

[Glenys Harrington]

Dear All,

This special seminar may be of interest to ACIPC members – details below and
attached

Special Seminar

Professor Daniel Sexton MD, Duke University

“The role of the environment in the transmission of healthcare associated
infections”

Monday, 6 February 2017

Auditorium

12.00 – 1.00pm

The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity

792 Elizabeth St

Melbourne

Professor Daniel Sexton MD, Duke University was the principal investigator
for “The Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room (BETR) Disinfection Study which
examines the impact of enhanced terminal room disinfection as a method to
prevent healthcare-associated infections”.

(
clinicaltrials.gov, identifier:NCT01579370) .

Find attached the recent Lancet (published on 16 January 2017) publication
on this study:

Anderson DJ et al. Enhanced terminal room
disinfection and acquisition and infection caused by multidrug-resistant
organisms and Clostridium difficile (the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room
Disinfection study): a cluster-randomised, multicentre, crossover study

*”The incidence of target organisms among exposed patients was
significantly lower after adding UV to standard cleaning strategies (n;
33.9 cases per 10 000 exposure days; relative risk [RR] 0.70, 95% CI
0.50-0.98; p=0.036).”

http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(16)31588-4.pdf

There is an excellent review of the publication by John Otter (UK
https://jonotter.net/cv/ ) on the Reflections in
Infection Prevention and Control blog site

https://reflectionsipc.com/2017/01/19/time-to-go-shopping-for-a-uvc-system/

regards

Glenys

Glenys Harrington

Infection Control Consultancy (ICC)

P.O. Box 6385

Melbourne

Australia, 3004

M: +61 404816434

E: infexion@ozemail.com.au

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