73 Clean your hands

Veterinary Clinical Podcasts

Dominic Barfield

814108, Higher Education, Education, Medicine, Rvc, Science & Medicine, Veterinary, Science, Higher, Royal

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today Brian and I are joined in the studio by both Zoe Halfacree and Rosanne Jepson, both senior lectures in their respective fields of soft tissue surgery and internal medicine here at the RVC. They are also both on the infection control committee here in our small animal teaching hospital (Queen Mother Hospital for Animals) and next week it is the World Health Organisation (WHO) SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, on 5^th May 2018. A campaign to promote hand hygiene in health care to prevent sepsis, as the slogan says ‘It’s in your hands’.

We discuss the importance in handwashing, how you can implement and audit this in practice.

5 moments for hand hygiene:

Before touching a patient
Before clean/aseptic procedure
After body fluid exposure risk
After touching a patient
After touching patient surroundings

For further information about the campaign and some great posters:

http://www.who.int/infection-prevention/campaigns/clean-hands/5may2018/en/

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0:00.0	Today, Dominic Barfield here, and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast.
0:02.9	Thank you for listening and thank you for subscribing on your smartphone or generic fruit-based device.
0:07.0	Really grateful for you taking their time to download and listen to this obviously podcast.
0:10.5	And if you don't ask for much in return, they'll be incredibly grateful if you could pop to Apple Podcast or Acast and leave us for a review.
0:16.0	A five-star review would be obviously great and we'd appreciate it if you can take a couple minutes your time to to do that for us sort of today so today we're joined in the studio with not one but but two
0:27.4	lovely guests so we have with us Roseanne Jetson who's one of our senior lecturers here in
0:32.5	internal medicine and Zoe Halford crew so one of our soft tissue surgeons here in Senior Lecturer at the RBC.
0:39.6	And we're all here today to talk about the World Health Organization Handwashing Day,
0:44.4	which is Friday, I believe, May the 5th.
0:47.9	Is that right there? That's good.
0:49.7	So many thanks, Roseanne and Zoe for joining us today to speak about an interesting topic on
0:56.5	hand washing.
0:57.3	So I suppose I should say as well that you're both part of the infection control committee
1:03.4	here at the RVC or in particular in the small animal hospital that we have here, the Queen Mother
1:09.2	Hospital for animals,
1:11.6	and something that I suppose we take indeed very seriously as we all sort of should.
1:17.6	So maybe I might first by asking you individually or both the importance of hand washing
1:24.6	and how, why maybe is it something that we don't necessarily do all the time?
1:30.3	So, do you want me to start?
1:33.3	I can, yes, you went to.
1:35.3	That's all right.
1:36.3	So, you know, hand washing is really important.
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