Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦

Hiding, dismissing or ignoring patient safety errors harms patients.

[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

This is the latest update; its marked as it will appear in the book (Chapter 2. Figure 2.1).
Editing of all 11 chapters begins...

[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

We IPC - must do better ...

[Naomi Mott @namott]

@1goodtern @OliveSiffleur Mum was in isolation for D&V in hospital. Nurses go in with surgical masks. Auxiliaries taking in food and cleaning don’t wear masks. Doctor swans in with a bunch of students, none wearing masks. What is the point? 🤷‍♀️

[Spela Salamon, MD, Ph.D. @SalamonSMD]

Why no one understands the predicament we are all in, no one is taking any action, and everyone keeps voting for the bad guys that make it all worse:

(call me "ableist" all you want - COVID busts your brain and that has consequences)

[Dr Alison Twycross RN @alitwy]

@_CatintheHat @EvonneTCurran Yesterday, a relative had their surgery cancelled at the last minute because “the operating theatre was too hot and this would be an infection risk”.

By last minute, I mean they were second on the morning list, had arrived at the hospital and were about to go to theatres.

[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

Here you are the Medical Research Council 1944, quoting research from 1937...
Bacteria are in the air - all the time - unless we remove them.
Esp when making beds
[#notbreakingnews]

[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

I would slightly alter this...
"The airborne dissemination of ALL bacteria has been substantially underestimated, necessitating urgent....
References in this paper go back to 1996 - lets go back further....
h/t @LazarusLong13

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

The conclusion is unusually stark.

Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii (CRAB) is the highest priority of all antibiotic resistant bacteria (according to the WHO).

And it is airborne.

This is actually a VERY GOOD REASON to bring one of @NukitToBeSure 's

[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

This was the first slide I used to explain transmission, its staphs sitting on a skin scale - 1m dispersed per person per day...

The National Infection Prevention & Control Manuals recognise only contact and they are wrong.
Lets put it right - airborne dissemination is a thing.

[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

Has the 'relentless' schedule changed?
Could it be anything else, let's think?

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

I have been talking about airborne ARGs for quite a while, because it's not all about COVID.

But, here we go - IPC is FINALLY starting to figure out that antibiotic resistant bacteria are airborne.

Well, Chinese IPC is starting to, anyway.

Study 🧵 .

[World Health Network @TheWHN]

Join WHN's Clean Air Panel Discussion 2: Safer Schools on June 29th from 11 AM to 1 PM ET to hear from a panel of experts working to improve air quality in educational settings. Learn why clean air in schools matters, what solutions are available today, and how we can create healthier learning environments for students, educators, and families in the future.

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#CleanAir #PublicHealth #HepaFilters #SchoolSafety #HealthySchools

[Liesl McConchie @Liesl4CleanAir]

Excited to be a part of this panel of amazing folks working to get clean air in schools.

Details to register are below.

Join us 6/29 at 11am ET

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

🇦🇺Australia: Thousands of patients caught COVID in NSW hospitals last year and hundreds died, new data shows"

Published: 14 October 2024

"At least 6,007 patients caught COVID in NSW public hospitals in 2023 and 297 died — about 115 infections and 6 deaths per week, on average."

[Raina MacIntyre @Globalbiosec]

The #OHS pyramid is blindly cited in #PPE guidelines by #IPC committees to justify inadequate #PPE. It was designed for physical hazards like a faulty ladder, not for health workers, for whom the hazard may be the infectious patient. We propose flipping the pyramid and re-thinking HCW safety. #ebola @doctorahmad75 https://t.co/tOr8ilccn0

[The Trials of Lucy Letby @LucyLetbyTrials]

"Hereford MP Jesse Norman questions Lucy Letby's convictions"

"Experts from several fields—including neonatology, pathology, and statistics—have raised concerns about the scientific and statistical evidence presented to the jury."

https://t.co/HPMhqnnjJn

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

“Infection control becomes almost impossible”

NHS medics describe extreme heat conditions they feel are unsafe for patients.

Hospitals are declaring critical incidents with radiotherapy machines, MRI scanners & IT systems failing due to heat.

https://t.co/22vwRsT37h

🧵

[Dr Evonne T Curran NursD 💙🇺🇦 @EvonneTCurran]

Excellent

[AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD, MPH @fitterhappierAJ]

https://t.co/hoiusL1V3U

[Roy Lilley 💙 @RoyLilley]

We don’t need flashes of brilliance… we need flashes of the blindingly obvious.
We need to obsess over the quality of the front-line experience… for the people doing the job and for the people we do the job for. https://t.co/ut587gcGzv

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

The guidance for school ventilation (BB101) has not been updated since 2018.

Back in January, the govt gave assurances that:

“An updated set of standards will be published in early 2026”.

It is nearly June.

Where is the updated guidance?!

https://t.co/7dTSjk3g5y

@timfarron