Program
Keynote Speakers
Pre-Conference Workshops
Tuesday 7 October 2008
Workshop 1
Infection Control During Construction, Renovation and Maintenance - A Simulated Training Workshop
Date: Tuesday 7 October 2008
Time: 09:00 - 12:00
Venue: 2nd Floor, Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Road, Prahran. Next door to The Alfred Hospital
Catering: Breakfast and lunch included
Delegate number: Limited to 50 people, open to interstate delegates only
Cost: $85
Facilitator: Glenys Harrington
Introduction: This workshop will focus on strategies for the prevention of infection in patients, staff and visitors during times of environmental disturbance caused by construction, renovation and repair activities in the healthcare setting.
Objectives: On completion of the training module the participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of the “Infection Control During Construction, Renovation and Maintenance” guideline.
- Demonstrate an understanding of which construction, renovation or repair activities may place patients, staff or visitors at risk of fungal infections.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to conduct a risk assessment prior to the commencement of a construction, renovation or repair activity.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to conduct a random site inspection during construction, renovation and repair activities.
Evaluation: At the completion of this workshop the participants will:
a) Be able to conduct risk assessments on construction, renovation and repair activities.
b) Be able to conduct random assessments of sites under construction or renovation.
c) Be able to explain to colleagues in lay terms the risks to immunosuppressed persons that may be associated with construction, renovation and repair activities.
d) Be able to instruct colleagues in risk assessment and random construction/renovation site assessment procedures.
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Morning or afternoon tea will be provided for all workshops on Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Workshop 2
Publish or Perish - How You Can Contribute to the Literature
Epidemiological Research Methodology and How this Relates to Critically Reading and Interpreting Scientific Articles & Writing for Publication
Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
Cost: AICA and Editorial Board Members $55.00
Non Member $75.00
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground
Presenter: Ann Bull/Elizabeth Gillespie
Have you ever wondered what a case control study is? Would you like to be able to read scientific literature and know how to judge its merit? Keen to publish your data but you’re not sure where to start? If any of these questions applies to you then this is the workshop for you!
This workshop is in two parts – the first will introduce you to basic epidemiology including types of studies common in medical literature and the strengths and weaknesses of each type, what to look for in terms of studies that are well designed, and how to interpret the basic results. The format will include some participation exercises in order to help you apply your newfound knowledge.
The second part of the workshop will set you on the road to publishing your own work. Literature reviews, short reports, manuscripts of original work all provide valuable information to our colleagues and are worthy of publication. This part of the workshop will work step-by-step through the process of publishing your work. Developing the manuscript, working with a team of co-authors, the corresponding author, peer review, revising your manuscript, the final draft, the published manuscript.
Objectives:
1. Have a basic knowledge of commonly used epidemiological study types
2. Have an understanding of the advantages/disadvantages of each type
3. To be confident in reading and interpreting general scientific articles
Target Group:
AICA members working in all areas of infection control and from varied levels of experience. Best suited to those who have not had a lot of experience reading and contributing to the literature.
Workshop Presenters:
Ann Bull
Ann is the epidemiologist at the VICNISS coordinating centre. Ann completed a PhD in Genetics at Melbourne University and after graduating worked in the Commonwealth Environment Department in Canberra and then spent 5 years in Kakadu National Park. After this she returned to Canberra (although not necessarily willingly) and completed a Masters in Applied Epidemiology before coming to work at VICNISS. Ann enjoys working with databases and is interested in quality in healthcare and how this can be improved through the use of information technology.
Elizabeth Gillespie
Elizabeth Gillespie is the Sterilisation and Infection Control coordinator for Southern Health, Melbourne Australia.
Elizabeth is a registered nurse, registered midwife, nurse immuniser, holds a certificate in Operating Room Management, a certificate in Sterilisation and Infection Control, a Bachelor of Nursing and Master of Public Health – Epidemiology from the University of Melbourne.
In addition to her current role, Elizabeth has been appointed Editor-in-Chief for the Australian Infection Control journal since August 2006. This role has entailed preparing the journal for a change of publisher and preparations for application to MEDLINE indexation.
Workshop 3
Mathematical Modelling
Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
Cost: AICA and Editorial Board Members $55.00
Non Member $75.00
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground
Presenter: Emma McBryde
Mathematical models of infectious disease transmission are often used to predict the impact of infection control interventions in the healthcare setting. Infection control practitioners, clinicians, and hospital epidemiologists need to be able to interpret this information, and few have received formal training in modelling methods.
This half-day workshop will introduce key concepts of mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, with an emphasis on practical hospital applications. Participants are not assumed to be experienced in either mathematics or modelling. Sessions will predominantly be interactive, including whiteboard-based discussion, use of simple Excel spreadsheet models and small group tasks involving construction of models.
Objective
The objective is to achieve a basic understanding of what models are and what they can achieve and to give infection control practitioners the skills to interpret mathematical models of hospital acquired infections with greater confidence.
Target Group:
This workshop is aimed at the more experienced and expert Infection Control professional.
Workshop Presenter
Dr Emma McBryde is Head of Epidemiology at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service of the Royal Melbourne Hospital. After completing her medical training in Queensland, she undertook a PhD in Mathematical and Statistical Modelling of Transmission of Infectious Diseases in Hospitals. Since completing her PhD she has worked at University of Melbourne, the Royal Melbourne Hospital and VICNISS. Emma’s interests include assessing surveillance processes, modelling the impact of infection control interventions and assessing the impact of environmental reservoirs on transmission of pathogens.
Workshop 4
Credentialling Workshop
'People defer to experts – expose your expertise'
Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
Cost: Complimentary (AICA Members only)
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground
Presenter: Deborah Macbeth & Louise Hobbs
Limited places available
Credentialling is a process, which allows an individual to demonstrate and validate their specialist expertise in the field of infection control. Only individuals who have successfully been credentialed may use the initials CICP and be recognised as an expert by their peers.
Objectives:
- Provide an exciting and unique opportunity for members to commence, refine or finalise their applications.
- Demonstrate how work projects and activities can be easily adapted and used in the application.
- Develop reflective practice skills that will assist you in to further develop and refine your work practices.
Target Group:
AICA members with five or more years experience as an Infection Control Professional and who meet the following criteria:
- Registered Nurse;
- Currently employed (full or part-time) or self-employed in infection control.
How to prepare:
- On registration you will be sent a copy of the credentialing application package.
- Read through the package and use the point allocation table to determine what you need to do in addition to your educational achievements to obtain the mandatory 100 points.
- Choose one of the other criteria you will be aiming to meet and using the marking guide (appendix 2) draft a document to meet the criteria and bring it to the workshop for discussion.
- Bring along some work examples that would fit under one of the criteria headings and we will help you adapt them.
What to bring:
- Your draft document;
- Any questions/concerns you may have;
- A willingness to participate.
Committee members will be present for the duration of the workshop as an important resource to encourage and assist you leading up to the final submission of your package. Each workshop participant will be ‘teamed up’ with a member of the AICA Credentialling Committee.
Workshop 5
Six Sigma Workshop
Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Time: 13:00 - 16:00
Cost: Complimentary
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground
Presenter: Amy Richmond
Facilitator: A/Prof. Cathryn Murphy
In this session, Amy Richmond will share how performance improvement methods such as Lean Engineering and Six Sigma can be applied to preventing bloodstream infections. She will tell the story of how one hospital used these techniques to understand and redefine the processes that surround the care of a patient with a central venous catheter, leading to a reduction of risk factors and safer patient care
Preliminary Program
Thursday, 9 October 2008
08:30 Opening Session and Welcome Address
09:00 Keynote Address: Dick Zoutman
09:40 Keynote Address: Trish Perl Sponsored by Baxter Healthcare
10:20 Questions
10.30 Morning Tea and Trade Display
11:00 Concurrent Sessions
IC issues in Public Health
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- IC in Indigenous Settings - What are the Challenges (Aust taskforce in NT)
- Refugee Issues
- Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN)
Surveillance
- Bacteraemias - National Surveillance
- Staph-aureus BSI Surveillance (AuSAB)
- SHiiNE Surveillance Software
- New Microbiological Technologies in Surveillance
Emerging Issues
- Pandemic Planning - What can we Learn from International Models
- Influenza Surveillance: Trying to Catch the Flu!
- C.difficile
- C.difficile Experience in the UK
12:30 Lunch and Trade Display
13:30 Concurrent Sessions - Free papers
14:45 Afternoon Tea and Trade Display
15:15 Keynote address: Amy Richmond Sponsored by BD
16:00 Vignettes from IC/Panel of Experts
17:00 Close of Day 1
17:10 AICA AGM and Meeting of the Editorial Board Healthcare Infection Journal
19:00 Pre Dinner Drinks
19:30 Conference Dinner
Guest Speakers: Trish Perl and Sylvia Gandossi; Elaine Robertson Award (Sponsored by ACT)
Friday, 10 October 2008
07:45 Breakfast with Dick Zoutman
08:40 Opening Session
AICA Future Directions
08:55 Standards of Practice
09:15 Why do They do it? - Bad Habits are Hard to Break
09:35 WHO - Scope of practice for the ICP
09:55 Questions and Facilitated Discussion
10:10 Morning Tea and Trade Display
10:40 Concurrent Sessions
IC From Different Perspectives
- The Economic Impact of HAIs
- Top 5 Papers Affecting IC Work Practice
- Reports from the Coroners Office
- Surgeons Perspective
Issues in LTCF's and Community
- Infection Prevention and Control Programs in Canadian LTCF's, a National Survey
- Point Prevalence Survey of Infections in Residential Aged Care
- Infection Control Guidelines for Dental Health Practice
- Influenza A Outbreak in a RCF
CSSD/Theatre
- Outbreaks Associated with Endoscope Re-processing
- The New AS4187 / Medical Device Regulations
- Tracking Systems - Implementation and Efficacy
- Endoscope Auditing
12:20 Lunch and Trade Display
13:10 Concurrent Session
Device Related Issues in Specialist Care Areas
- Preventing BSI's Using a Team Based Approach
- Prevention of VAP's - What the Data Tells Us
- Decreasing BSI's - the Introduction of Interlink
- Haemodialysis Issues
Communicable Disease in Paediatrics
- IC in Indigenous Settings - What are the Challenges (Aust taskforce in NT)
- Paediatric Respiratory Viral Epidemics Need Not Cost the Earth
- Rotavirus and Indigenous Paed Community
- Outbreaks in NICU
Occupational Health
- Occupational Exposures Benchmarking
- Effect of mandatory HCW Immunisation Policy Implementation - Friend or Foe
14:30 Afternoon Tea and Trade Display
15:00 Update from Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare
15:15 National Hand Hygiene Project
15:30 HIA Implementation Advisory Committee
15:45 Antibiotic Stewardship
16:00 NHMRC Infection Control Guidelines
16:15 Debate: Mandatory Reporting of HCAI Rates
17:10 Conference Close
Invited Speakers
- Chris Baggoley ACQSHC
- Claire Boardman VICNISS
- Ann Bull VICNISS
- Kylie Carville VIDRL
- Marilyn Cruickshank ACQSHC
- John Ferguson Hunter New England Health Service
- Sylvia Gandossi AICA Executive
- Elizabeth Gillespie Southern Health
- Libby Grabsch Austin Health
- Louise Hobbs Melbourne Health
- Gabby Irvine Princess Margaret Hospital
- Ian Jennens VIDS
- Paul Johnson Austin Health
- Marija Juraja Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Sheilah La Rose Flinders Medical Centre
- Deborah Macbeth Gold Coast Hospital
- Terry McAuley STEAM Consulting
- Rhea Martin Austin Health
- Brett Mitchell Department of Health and Human Services TIPCU Population Health
- Cathryn Murphy ICPlus
- Megan Riley H ands On Infection Control
- Phil Russo Hand Hygiene Australia
- Paul Simpson Melbourne Health
- Michelle Skinner Victorian Coroners Office
- Tony Stewart Mcfarlane Burnet Institute
- Pauline Woodburn RICPRAC
Trish M. Perl
Trish M. Perl, MD, MSc, is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and in the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Hygiene at Johns Hopkins University. Dr Perl is also Director of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, and the
Hospital Epidemiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr Perl was the 2006 President of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America (SHEA). She is a member of the American College of Physicians, American Society of Microbiology, Association of Practitioners of Infection Control, American Federation for Clinical Research, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In the past, she has served on advisory panels for the CDC and been a consultant to the NIH and ARHQ. An active researcher, her interests include prevention of emerging infection and interventions to prevent healthcare
associated infections and epidemiologically significant organisms, surgical site infections, the healthcare response in bioterrorism preparedness and avian influenza and pandemic influenza planning, and patient safety and healthcare worker.
Dr Perl has been a principal investigator for studies on healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance and the use of BioSurveillance for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has authored or coauthored over 100 peer-reviewed articles. In addition, she has written multiple chapters and contributed to guidelines and policies relevant to healthcare associated infections.
Sponsored by Baxter
Amy Richmond
Amy Richmond is the Manager of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Her infection prevention and control experience spans acute and ambulatory care settings in both the academic medical center and community hospital settings. Over the past three years she has worked to apply six sigma and lean methodologies to infection prevention, leading and mentoring several successful projects. Amy is a member of the national APIC Education Committee and has served as faculty for the APIC EPI 201 course.
Sponsored by BD
Dick Zoutman
Dr. Zoutman is Chief of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the South Eastern Ontario Health Sciences Center in Kingston. Dr. Zoutman is Professor of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, of Community Health & Epidemiology, and of Medicine at Queen's University. A primary focus of his investigative work has been understanding the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections and related medical errors. He is Physician-Director of the Board of the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association of Canada. During the 2003 outbreak of SARS in Toronto Dr. Zoutman chaired the Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee responsible for advising the Ontario Government on management strategies of the SARS outbreak. As of 2004 Dr. Zoutman was appointed Co-Chair of the Ontario Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee.
Call For Silly Questions
You Must be Kidding? - Are the Questions we are Asked in Infection Control Stranger Than Fiction?
Sponsored by (add Rhima logo)
Sometimes we get the silliest questions! Whether by pager, telephone or in person, these questions can give us a smile or outright laugh. Send us the silliest question you have ever received on infection prevention and control. The best question will be announced and a prize awarded during the Conference Dinner
The deadline for submission of the silliest question is Friday 29th August 2008. Silly questions must be submitted electronically to: aica2008@icms.com.au with SILLY QUESTION in the subject heading
Infection Prevention and Control Clinical Vignettes
For the first time, a session dedicated to Clinical Vignettes will be part of the AICA 2008 Conference. The purpose of clinical vignettes is to provide an opportunity to discuss challenging infection control clinical cases with your colleagues. So, it is time to start thinking about your interesting, difficult and head-scratching infection prevention and control dilemmas.
All AICA members are invited to submit interesting clinical cases for consideration. Please include an outline of the case (including investigations, diagnosis and treatment), a short discussion on the instructive value of the case, and a few (2-3) key references on the subject. An abstract of the case should also be included (but don’t give away the answer!) as these will be published in the Conference program for members to review prior to the session.
Each vignette case presentation will be approximately 15 minutes – 5 minutes for case presentation and brief discussion of the issues by the presenter followed by 10 minutes for discussion by the audience and panel
If your vignette is accepted for presentation you will be eligible for a Rhima Infection Control Research Grant up to the value of $1000 and will be required to submit your vignette (case review) for publication in the AICA journal, Healthcare Infection. The research grant may be used for Conference registration, travel and accommodation costs, and time required to write and submit the vignette for publication. The grant will be paid in full following submission for publication to Healthcare Infection.
The deadline for submission of clinical vignettes is Friday 29th August 2008. Vignettes must be submitted electronically to: aica2008@icms.com.au with VIGNETTE in the subject heading.
If your vignette is accepted for presentation, you will be notified in writing by Friday 12th September 2008.
If you have any questions regarding possible cases for discussion please contact, Claire Boardman, Scientific Program Coordinator via email: Claire.Boardman@mh.org.au or phone: 03 9342 2605
We look forward to receiving your clinical vignettes and to an excellent session with lively discussion at the AICA 2008 conference.
AICA Conference Committee 2008
AICA Standards
The Australian Infection Control Association (AICA) revised Infection Control Standards herald a new era in the professional association's role in promoting best practice.
Written by experienced Infection Control Professionals from all States /Territories in Australia this important reference is comprehensive and easy to use and emphasises the components of an infection control program.
It provides a unique focus on incorporating infection control into everyday practice and is easily applicable to different healthcare settings.
Key features and benefits:
- Concise and accessible guide to Standards that lead and support infection control.
- Emphasises essential information about infection prevention and control strategies.
- Provides all Infection Control Professionals and health and care facilities with information they need to practice Infection Control.
Register before the early registration date and receive your copy of the AICA Standards for only $20 plus P&H (normally $35.00 + P&H) - a saving of $15
Please use the AICA 2008 Registration Form to order your copy of the AICA Standards at the reduced price.