Episode 52 - Diamantis Plachouras - Healthcare-associated infections

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

According to the latest ECDC survey, each year, 4.3 million patients in hospitals in the EU/EEA acquire at least one healthcare-associated infection during their stay in the hospital.

Diamantis Plachouras - ECDC Principal Expert in Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections tells us why this issue needs to be tackled as swift as possible and goes deeper into the data coming from the third point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals, coordinated by ECDC in 2022-2023.

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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.
0:14.8	Hello and welcome to this podcast.
0:17.4	My name is Catherine and I am your host for today's episode of ECDC on air. This is the
0:22.7	podcast at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which is recorded from our
0:27.8	headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. In this episode, we are going to talk about health
0:33.2	scar associated infections, data collection and the tool we use to assess the situation at a certain
0:39.6	point of time.
1:00.0	To understand better how the whole system works, we have to understand better how the whole system works, we have with us today, Diamantis Plachulas, an expert on health care associated infection at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
1:07.0	Good morning, Diamantis. This is not the first time you have been invited here to talk about health
1:12.1	car associated infections. Thank you, Catherine. It's a great pleasure to be again a guest
1:17.2	in this podcast. A few months ago, we did a podcast with you on this subject. It's the episode
1:23.9	37, which explains in detail what health care associated infections are. Today, we are
1:30.0	going to look at a related topic the way you measure the number of patients affected by these
1:36.7	infections. To start with, just remind us briefly who you are and what you do at DCDC.
1:43.5	My name is Diamantis Plejuras.
1:45.0	I'm a medical doctor with specialization in infectious diseases and I am the lead of the
1:50.6	ECDC team that coordinates surveillance or monitoring of healthcare-associated infections in the
1:56.2	European Union.
1:57.2	ECDC published the results of the latest point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated
2:03.0	infections and antimicrobial use in European hospitals.
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