So hello and welcome to this Small Animal Clinical podcast, brought to you from the Royal Veterinary College in London.

My name is Shaylan Jasani. Today I'm very pleased to welcome back Dan Chan to the podcast. Just to remind you, Dan is a diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care and head of the ECC service here at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.

Dan is also a diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Nutrition and provides the hospital with a clinical nutrition service.

But today we're actually going to be talking about healthcare-associated infections.

And Dan has a particular interest in this,

both from the point of view of critical care patients and ICU infection rates, and also in

the wider hospital setting. And Dan is a member of the hospital's infection control committee.

So Dan, this is actually a topic that you suggested to me,

and it's obviously something that is very important and very current.

So thanks for the suggestion.

As always, there's really a lot that we could cover here,

and I guess what I'm hoping to do as usual is to give the listeners

kind of a broad overview of the issues

and to try and highlight as many of the key

points as possible in the time that we have. And I guess the place I wanted to start with was some

terminology and definitions. People may be aware of this distinction between community acquired

and healthcare associated infections.

So I wanted you, if possible, to please explain the difference.

But I also wanted to try and clarify the terminology because people may have heard of

hospital-acquired infections.

They may have heard of nozocomial infections.

And I've decided to call this podcast

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