IPC in adult and paediatric critical care (online)

06 July 2022

 

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome and introduction

 

10:05 - 10:40

Preventing HCAIs in critical care patients

Dr Andrew Conway Morris, University of Cambridge

10:40 –11:15

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Martin Kiernan, University of West London

11:15 – 11:35 Break

 

11:35 – 12:10 Unintended consequences of the pandemic on Infection prevention in critical care units

Dr Manjula Meda, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

12:10 – 12:45 Reducing line infections in ITU/surveillance

Dr Jocelyn Elmes, UK Health Security Agency

Professor Andrew Rhodes, St George's University Hospital NHS Trust

Professor Peter Wilson, University College Hospitals London NHS Trust

12:45 – 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 – 14:05 Staphylococcus capitis in hospitalised infants, England, 2015–2022

 

Dr Alicia Demirjian, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and UK Health Security Agency

14:05 – 14:40 Not just tiny adults – infection control issues in neonatal intensive care

Dr Elizabeth Pilling, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

14:40 – 15:00 Break  
15:00 – 15:35

Case study – Birmingham neonatal outbreak

Dr Jim Gray, Department of Microbiology, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust

15:35 – 16:10 Chlorhexidine: friend or foe?

Dr David Enoch, Addenbbrookes Hospital Cambridge and UKHSA