29 July 2020
Online
Webinar - Unanticipated consequences of COVID-19
This webinar is the last in the COVID-19 challenges and solutions series before a summer break and aims to ‘round-up’ what we have learnt so far and what may have been unexpected.
During the webinar Evonne Curran discusses the following papers:
- Risk of nosocomial transmission of coronavirus disease 2019: an experience in a general ward setting in Hong Kong
- Nosocomial infections among patients with COVID-19, SARS and MERS: a rapid review and meta-analysis
- Nosocomial transmission of COVID-19: a retrospective study of 66 hospital-acquired cases in a London teaching hospital
- Containing COVID‐19 in the Emergency Department: The role of improved case detection and segregation of suspect cases
Panel members:
- Evonne Curran NursD, Independent Infection Prevention Nurse Consultant, Honorary Senior Research Fellow School of Health and Life Sciences Glasgow Caledonian University
- Dr Manjula Meda - Consultant Clinical Microbiologist and Infection Control Doctor, Frimley Park Hospital
- Dr Luke Moore, Consultant Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Kate Templeton, Consultant Clinical Scientist, RIE and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh
Chair: Dr Chris Settle - Infection Control Doctor, South Tyneside & Sunderland Foundation Trust