Check out this HELPFUL video on caring for your surgical wound at home! 🤩

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#SSIPrevention
#Health #Recovery

An epic #SSI Prevention conference on an important element of the #SSI Prevention Bundle coming up featuring top #SSI #IPC experts/ speakers. Please register 4 this free event #StopSSI healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-ma… cc: Melissa Rochon Jude Robinson 💙 Jon Otter & many others #InThisTogrther

Fantastic to see the CLEEN study results accepted as a late breaker #ESCMIDGlobal Brett Mitchell Cleaning shared medical equipment reduces HCAI. Results clearly amazed the audience

2 education webinars taking place on Tuesday April 30th on SSI Surveillance post C-section
Public Health Nurses & Community RGNs @ 2pm
Registration link: shorturl.at/cwDKZ
Practice Nurses – Tuesday 30th April @ 7.30pm
Registration Link: shorturl.at/nCGHU

Celebrating our 1st patient enrolled in the #I4F study! 🙌 amazing effort from the MfE team Imperial NHS 💙
Can video-based records enhance team communication, clinical assessment & care for older people with frailty without burdening patients or staff❓
NIHR North West London PSRC Isla

It has been a privilege to attend the 2nd C-section SSI day.

Dr Michael Magro Essity OUH Smith+Nephew Jo Shackleton Lisa Humphries from Northampton General Hospital 💙 sheds light on the role of scrub nurses in SSI prevention, driving practice change through engagement. 🌟🏥

Dr Michael Magro Essity OUH Smith+Nephew Jo Shackleton Northampton General Hospital 💙 Lesley Jordan from RUH Bath 🏥 presents PreCiSSIon: Collaborative Regional Improvement project to prevent SSI following Caesarean Birth across the West of England. 🤝🏥

Fascinating evening ⁦Guy's and St Thomas'⁩

Brilliant speakers on importance of diversity of thought and participation in research and innovation. Audience buzzing!

Thx to CITI ⁦Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram FRCS (Plast), BEM⁩ ⁦Richard Stubbs FRSA⁩ ⁦Haris Shuaib⁩ Daghni & Didi ⁦Sciana: The Health Leaders Network⁩

Dr Michael Magro Essity OUH Capturing snapshots of clinicians exchanging practices, ideas, and more. 📸🤝

📸✨ Get ready for a trip down memory lane! We’re throwing it back to our first C-Section SSI Network Day with some nostalgic photos. Can’t wait to create new memories next week Friday, 26/04/24, for our 2nd C-Section SSI Network Day! See you there! 🤩🌟

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Whether planned or not, ~1 in 4 births are caesarean births, as reported by the NHS. Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is a concern following a c-section. Isla steps in post-op to monitor for SSI - all from the comfort of home.

#CSectionAwarenessMonth #MaternalHealth #WomensHealth

Surveillance algorithms reduce resources and SSI coding data is not reliable. A comparison of an algorithm, and coding data, with traditional survei... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ACIPC ACSQHC Tracey Bucknall Allen Cheng VICNISS Safer Care Victoria

What do you wear on your head in theatre?

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🫀New work investigates whether risk of #SurgicalSiteInfection after cardiac surgery decreased by changing from turbulent mixed airflow to unidirectional airflow
🍃Low cost-effectiveness & negative environmental impact of UDAF should be considered
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NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)'s Rhiannon Macefield describes how indepth quali research provides important insights into how surgeons introduced an innovative cardiac procedure - capturing learning, variations and uncertainties. Important points about terminology, too!

Delighted to be at IDEAL Collaboration #IDEAL2024 sharing the work from Clinical Surgery Edinburgh Colorectal Research on using AI to facilitate remote postop wound monitoring in practice #digitalsurgery

Huge clinical potential from AI in surgery, more needs done to progress towards implementation

🌟 Today, we were thrilled to present “WISDOM: Transforming Postoperative Care Through Remote Monitoring” in the MAH Conferences at Cavendish Venues, offering insights into the future of surgery and sparking thought-provoking discussions on innovative approaches. 💡

Central Digital Wound Monitoring Hub - proven digital +workforce solution to improve follow up at scale. #SSI common, expensive ⬆️patient home. FU expensive + patchy=pressure on acute and primary care. Focusing GSTT_SSIPTeam on early detection and prevention Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity

Interesting presentation from Sean ⁦Guy's and St Thomas'⁩ on the use of #chestsupport in transforming #surgical #outcomes after #cardiacsurgery #SCTS2024 ⁦CardiacSSINetwork⁩ ⁦Melissa Rochon⁩ ⁦St Bartholomew's Hospital⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦Heather Byers⁩ ⁦Carlos Morais⁩