MOVING ANNOUNCEMENT
We have moved our hand hygiene blog to another location. Our new site will give the chance to comment our posts and search older posts easier. We hope that these changes will bring us closer.
Stay safe in the lab!
2013.07.17.
Working in laboratories give us a lot of potential infection transmission medium. You should think twice before responding to your phone during a sterilized, chemical procedure or in a pastry lab. Read more
Core competencies to avoid HAI
2013.07.15.
With this technical report, the intent of European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is to propose a comprehensive list of core competencies that should be adopted by infection control and hospital hygiene professionals across Europe. Read more
US army against HAI
2013.07.05.
Wounded personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are often colonized or infected with Multi‐Drug Resistant Organisms (MDRO), likely due to nosocomial transmission in and out of the combat zone. Read more
Milestone #1
2013.07.02.
Hand-in-Scan has just passed its first milestone, creating the 10 clinical prototypes of the system. These will be deployed at the key partner institutions of the project. Their validation is on the way through our Hungarian clinical partners.
Last day of ICPIC 2013
2013.06.30.
Even the very last day of the conference brought interesting materials, including the “Latest results from European research”. Successful implementation of the World Health Organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in a teaching hospital, China Multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy is feasible and effective in a big teaching hospital in developing country. Read more
Hand-in-Scan @ ICPIC
2013.06.29.
We have had multiple roles at ICPIC this year. The Hand-in-Scan objective hand hygiene assessment device received the grand prize at the 1st ICPIC Innovation Academy in July 2011. Read more
Semmelweis Day at ICPIC
2013.06.28.
Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician, “savior of mothers”, postulated the theory of surgical disinfection in the middle of the 19th century, radically breaking down hospital morbidity numbers. No wonder, ICPIC devoted an entire day to his tribute after 195 years of his birth. Read more