Episode 37 - Diamantis Plachouras - All (Clean) Hands on Deck
ECDC: On Air
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
5 • 3 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It's 5 May and we mark today the World Hand Hygiene Day.
Hand hygiene or simply - hand washing is one of the simplest, yet most important and effective measure to lower the chances of catching or spreading infectious diseases in public spaces and in healthcare settings!
We asked ECDC's expert in Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections - Diamantis Plachouras to tell us a bit more about the matter - so wash your hands, put your headphones or speakers on, and listen in!
For more on hand hygiene, visit our World #HandHygieneDay dedicated page here.
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| 0:00.0 | ECDC on air. |
| 0:05.2 | The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. |
| 0:08.8 | Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello and welcome to this podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | My name is Catherine and I am your host for today's episode of ECDC-Onair. |
| 0:21.6 | This is a podcast of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, |
| 0:25.7 | which is recorded from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 0:29.6 | This year, as every year, on 5th of May, we commemorate Hand-Sygiene Day |
| 0:34.8 | to raise awareness of the importance of hand-sigene and to reduce the |
| 0:39.3 | number of infections in health care facilities. |
| 0:42.3 | To understand what is a stake in this campaign, we invited Diamante's Plashuras, an expert |
| 0:49.3 | on health-car-associated infections at the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. |
| 1:12.9 | Hello, Diamanties. Good morning. It's a pleasure to have you with us today. |
| 1:16.1 | Hello, Katrine. Thank you for invite me to this podcast. |
| 1:25.0 | Could you first tell us more about yourself, what you do at DCDC and what led you to work on health care infections? |
| 1:31.1 | Yes, so I work here at the CDC in the Healthcare Associ infections group, and I'm a clinical infectious disease specialist, and before coming to ECDC, I worked several years |
| 1:36.6 | in hospitals where I realized that healthcare associated infections are one of the most important |
| 1:42.5 | risks to the safety of the patients, and moreover, |
| 1:45.8 | that a majority of such infections are preventable. So I came to CDC to be able to contribute more |
| 1:50.7 | to a joint European effort to reduce this risk and improve patient care. To begin with, |
| 1:56.9 | could you tell us what health care-associated infections are? And to simplify the discussion, maybe we can call them hospital infections or health care infections. |
| 2:06.2 | Certainly. |
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