Many thanks to all participants, speakers and sponsors for this great conference!
High-level keynote speakers, lectures by specialists and excellent networking opportunities made the third Semmelweis CEE Conference on Hospital Hygiene and Patient Safety a great success.
Resumee 3rd CEE wide Semmelweis conference on hospital hygiene
Quotations and Highlights from two days of exciting lectures and discussions
“Urgent action is required with respect to antibiotic resistance”
“We have to leverage the potential of entire teams – this requires leadership”
“There is a fire in our house!”
“Economic nonsense: curing a disease instead of preventing it”
“Cost of diagnostics should be included into the budget of antibiotics”
“We have to build meta competence, we have to build European competence! In both cases we have to learn from each other”
“Hospitals believe that they can work separately. But they cannot. All hospitals in a region are related when it comes to HAI”
“Political science should be connected to medicine”
“Hospitals are highly political places – therefore silo busting is difficult”
“We could learn from the aviation industry and should exchange information horizontally”
“When it comes to infection prevention – nurses are more important than we think”
“Evidence is not enough. You also need to communicate it”
“Doctors and patients have the same goal, but trust is needed”
“Trust is the fuel and glue of each network”
“In hospitals we are too much our roles but we get responsibility through our functions”
“We should use standard operation procedures and stick to the basic processes”
“Economic interest versus patient safety??”
“Should patients assess hospitals regarding hygiene? Patients cannot easily judge it and should not be asked”
“Discussing an issue is the start of a solution”
“To teach and explain is better than to pressure”
“ICPIC will become a patient-included meeting this year”
“With respect to infection prevention: generation change will help”
“If you want to bust silos: you should include emotions”
“Let’s be proud of what has been achieved in the past 150 years since Semmelweis – but we are not satisfied!”
“Reality often differs to what is being written down”
“If you don’t have enough resources: Do less, but do it well”
“If you plan to make a program, speak with the front workers first”
“Flu vaccination status in Austria: 7%”
“Flu increases the chance of HAI infections – this has been known since Egon Schiele died of it 101 years ago”
“Flu vaccination also reduces the risk of MCI by 50%”
“Silo mentality: The mindset is inward-looking. Silo busting may contribute to an overall failure”
“Solution for silo busting: Identify – Involve – Facilitate – Communicate!”
“Semmelweis tried to bust silos”
“What is silo busting? A means to change the system, a multimodal approach, monitoring and feedback, fatwa for alcohol-based hand rub”
“Adapt to adopt!”
“Motto of Country Hospital Villach (Corinthia, Austria): Your welfare is our concern”
“Villach is a Model of patient-oriented quality”
“In an average large hospital, we have 12,000 written SOPs (Standard operating procedures). An average nurse knows only 3 of them”
“You always train an orchestra together, not the violins on Monday, the trumpets on Tuesday and the drums on Wednesday”
“Handy hygiene compliance: Knowledge is there, tools are there, simply people forget to disinfect their hands”
“Opinion poll: What would increase the compliance? Nr. 1: More dispensers. Nr. 2: More monitoring and feedback”
“Bed Bugs killed by a fogger with Permethrin and Peroxide. Not Silo Busters but Bug Busters”
“How often does the laboratory ask you what you really want? Yet, the laboratory has to be a partner, an ally”
“Reservoir of resistant pathogens is growing”
“Stewardship must be a coordinated program”
“Stewardship must be a coordinated program”
“Rapid identification combined with treatment might solve the problem”
“Darwinopoly – survival of the fittest (Bacteria have survived for around 1,2 billion years)”
“Innovation is always related to praxis somehow”
Expert group at Semmelweis’ times: “We think that the theory of chlorine washing is outdated
“If you want to break a silo – don’t forget emotions!”
In the US due to legal praxis it is not “patient as partner” anymore, it has turned into “patient as enemy”. We have to make patients partners again.
“Patients versus doctors: There are rights and duties on both sides”
“Hygiene is a legal obligation!”
“Never forget: Also staff members can be infected during an outbreak!”
“How to act: Narrow window – wide impact”
“We learned to share – that increases the value (silo busting?!)”
“Do we have enough (clean) hands for our patients?”
“Infection control is like Sisyphus work”
“As an infection control person, you might feel like an elephant in a closet. But with the right mind set, dedicated teams and an open mind of political bodies – problems can be solved”
Semmelweis was the first health care activist!
Let us all become health care activists!!
Bernhard Küenburg
We cordially congratulate the three winners of our poster session and thank our sponsor Ecolab and ICPIC for providing them with travel, accommodation and a ticket to the ICPIC in Geneva:
1st place: Georg Duscher „Fighting against permethrin resistant and non-resistant strains of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) with the use of a special fogger and a combination of H2O2 fluid and permethrin – a light at the end of the tunnel“
2nd place: Clemens Bulitta „OR ventilation a relevant factor in prevention of surgical site infections“
3rd place: Patrick Braß „Better feedback for hand hygiene using an innovative support system“
From left to right: Bernhard Kueenburg (President of the Semmelweis Foundation), Didier Pittet (WHO), Patrick Braß (3rd place), Georg Duscher (1st place), Clemens Bulitta (2nd place), Mohamed Abbas (head of jury) and Samo Kotnik (Ecolab).
10 Best E-Posters
We would like to thank all participants of the Abstract Submission for their contribution.
We congratulate the 10 best authors on their abstracts!
Clemens Bulitta
Technical University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden, Institute of Medical Engineering, Weiden Oberpfalz, Germany
From left to right: Bernhard Kueenburg (President of the Semmelweis Foundation), Didier Pittet (WHO), Patrick Braß (3rd place), Georg Duscher (1st place), Clemens Bulitta (2nd place), Mohamed Abbas (head of jury) and Samo Kotnik (Ecolab).
Clostridium difficile infection associated with tuberculosis (TB) medication
Dr. Anca Hnatiuc
Municipal Hospital Dr. Gavril Curteanu Oradea Romania
From left to right: Bernhard Kueenburg (President of the Semmelweis Foundation), Didier Pittet (WHO), Patrick Braß (3rd place), Georg Duscher (1st place), Clemens Bulitta (2nd place), Mohamed Abbas (head of jury) and Samo Kotnik (Ecolab).
OR ventilation a relevant factor in prevention of surgical site infections
Clemens Bulitta
Technical University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden, Institute of Medical Engineering, Weiden Oberpfalz, Germany
From left to right: Bernhard Kueenburg (President of the Semmelweis Foundation), Didier Pittet (WHO), Patrick Braß (3rd place), Georg Duscher (1st place), Clemens Bulitta (2nd place), Mohamed Abbas (head of jury) and Samo Kotnik (Ecolab).
Microbiological Validation of Expert Evaluation: Reliability of Human Assessment
Viola Sári
Barriers in preventing healthcare associated infections in the nurses’ activity
Viorica Nedelcu
The Order of Nurses, Midwives and Medical Assistants in Romania Bucharest Branch,Bucharest, Romania, The “Carol Davila” University of Pharmacy and Medicine of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Successful implementation of hand hygiene program in Trnava University Hospital during period 2013-2018
Janka Prnova
Centre of Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Trnava University, Slovakia
Department of Hospital Hygiene and Epidemiology, University Hospital Trnava, Slovakia
Surgical Residents’ Hand Hygiene: Assumptions and Beliefs
Száva Bánsághi
From left to right: Bernhard Kueenburg (President of the Semmelweis Foundation), Didier Pittet (WHO), Patrick Braß (3rd place), Georg Duscher (1st place), Clemens Bulitta (2nd place), Mohamed Abbas (head of jury) and Samo Kotnik (Ecolab).
Financial Burden of Healthcare-Associated Infections Costs in Hungary: A Cost Based Analysis
Márk Markóczy
Fighting against permethrin resistant and non-resistant strains of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) with the use of a special fogger and a combination of H2O2 fluid and permethrin – a light at the end of the tunnel
Georg Duscher
Better feedback for hand hygiene using an innovative support system
Patrick Braß
Helios Klinikum Krefeld
Arabella
14.00-15.30
Registration & Welcome Drink
15.30-16.00
Welcome Speech
Bernhard Küenburg, President Semmelweis Foundation
Thomas Szekeres, Austrian Medical Association
Michael Binder – Medical Director of the Viennese Hospital Association
16.00-16.45
Keynote
CRE-free Europe: Prevention of antimicrobial resistance across all borders
Alexander W. Friedrich, University Medical Centre Groningen
16.45-18.00
Silo Busting – Challenging the old Problem of Interdisciplinary Work
Michael Binder – Medical Director of the Vienna Hospital Association
Anna Durnová, Political Scientist
Alexander W. Friedrich, University Medical Centre Groningen
Andreea Moldovan, St. Constantin Hospital Romania
Didier Pittet, Infection Control Programme & WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, The University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine
Thomas Szekeres, Austrian Medical Association
One of the most persisting problems in healthcare are departments: Thinking and acting in silos is not contributing to hospital hygiene. How can silos be busted?
What role could or should be taken by patients? Well informed and critical patients, as well as social media, could change the way nurses and doctors work – take a look at the changes in the tourism industry: reviews in online portals and on platforms can be existential for restaurants and hotels.
We have got the knowledge and technological know-how – why is infection-prevention, -surveillance and -control still an issue!?
At our conference in 2017 our topic was “Communication – the key for better infection surveillance and control”. During a lot of informal conversations we heard about great difficulties regarding hierarchies and that senior staff often prevents new working methods. How can we help healthcare workers change the system?
Changing the perspective can help a great deal – it is much easier to look at one discipline instead of looking at a system that puts patients first. When putting patients first, two things become clear – interdisciplinary work is necessary and the way budgets are being spent is debatable!
18.00-18.30
Break
Ernani
Hamlet
18.30-18.50
The view of a medical director on infection control
Ojan Assadian, Regional Hospital Neunkirchen
Lecture by OEGKH
18.30-18.50
The Development of Infection Control in Healthcare Settings in Hungary
Beatrix Oroszi, National Center for
Epidemiology Hungary
18.50-19.10
One health
Reinhild Strauss, Federal Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection
18.50-19.10
Catheter indused bloodstream infections and their prophylaxis from the point of view of the nursing practice.
Harald Titzer, Vienna General Hospital
19.10-19.30
The Robert Koch Institute’s approach to infection prevention and control in Germany.
Mardjan Arvand, Robert Koch Institute
19.10-19.30
Patient outcome on influenza-wards during two influenza seasons in three hospitals in Vienna after PCR point of care diagnosis in the emergency room.
Christoph Wenisch, Vienna Hospital Association
Lecture by OEGIT
Arabella
Dinner & Networking
Ecolab Hygiene Party
Lohengrin
Papageno
Othello
14.00-19.30
Ecolab’s programmatic approach to hospital hygiene and patient safety
14.00-19.30
World Café by Biomedica
14.00-19.30
smart & sophisticated room and surface Bio Decontamination with DCX Technology
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Alexander W. Friedrich
Alexandru Coman
Andreea Moldovan
Anna Durnová
Beatrix Oroszi
Bernhard Kuenburg
Birgit Willinger
Blacky Alexander
Christoph Wenisch
Elke Schindler
Fred Tenover Key
Fred Tenover MRSA
Harald Titzer
Kate Vulane
Ketecka Pulker
Lul Raka
Magda Diab-Elschahawi
Mardjan Arvand
Markovic Denic
Milena Petrovska
Ojan Assadian
Ramona Marincas
Roland Knieler
Reinhild Strauss
Tamas Haidegger
Viktorija Tomic
Vlastimil Jindrank
