Thank you @jvipondmd for your impassioned presentation yesterday & the stimulating conversation at dinner. Your contribution to saving people & the planet by doing things right is inspiring.
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Thank you Hospital Engineers for sharing your expertise to prevent infections during hospital construction.
Thank you for all you do to keep patients safe in all of our healthcare facilities all of the time.
Thank you @EdRubinstein for teaching us that Infection Prevention & Sustainability are not in tension - in fact implementing things like reusables & sophisticated engineered systems are key to both.
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Thank you Dr. Titus Wong for your courage & insight to lead BC IPC in researching & implementing Engineered Infection Prevention solutions into Healthcare Facilties & mass transit.
Thank you, Dr Klompas, for encouraging us to challenge Dogma and to accept new paradigms as the evidence presents itself.
Thank you clearly laying out your personal journey to switch from "Droplet" to "Airborne" paradigm for SARS2 transmission.
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Thank you to @CanadamasQ, Swenco Medical, @PADMmedical@CAPPEM2 for donating Made in 🇨🇦 respirators & plant based medical masks to conference attendees.
Thank you as well for your extraordinary leadership throughout the pandemic - teaching about airborne transmission, adding air purifiers to patient rooms, & moving vulnerable LTC residents into better ventilated spaces.
Many thanks to @keithmcglone55 for doing an excellent job on the Scientific Committee & for his professional moderation of many sessions.
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Thank you to Kelli & Heather & Carly & all the organizers for a great conference.
A special thank you to Gerry, for her unwavering commitment to IPAC, to patients, to industry partners, to collaboration, to professionalism, to progress, & to always doing the right thing right.
It was great to catch up with so many ppl after 3 years.
It feels like such a privilege now, the things we took for granted before.
The renewed spirit was palpable & energizing.
I especially want to thank everyone who showed such keen interest & enthusiasm for Engineered Infection Prevention technologies & better masks & respirators Made in 🇨🇦.
You've certainly renewed my optimism for a better healthcare future & for that I can't thank you enough. ☺️
Safe trip home everyone!
Stay healthy.
'Look forward to seeing you next year. 😊
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For more than two years now, CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) has pushed back against science, the public, HCWs, patients, Long Covid victims, & common sense to introduce better airborne protections for healthcare workers and patients
The last time the guidance for "Airborne, Contact, & Droplet Precautions" was updated was 2007
A lot has changed since then
We now know most diseases are transmitted "through the air"
In fine aerosols
Not large "droplets"
And we face numerous airborne disease threats now
10 voting members of HICPAC determine the risk of airborne transmission to 345 million Americans & 42 million Canadians
Putting at risk every year:
~90% who will interact with healthcare in some fashion
I'm getting some nuclear medicine bone scans done this morning to look at the extent of my infections...
So I did a bit of research & learned Canada is a world leader in new production technology for Technetium, Tc-99m, the radioactive isotope used for 85% of scans worldwide
About 30 million scans per year
I knew Canada had been a major world supplier of radioactive imaging materials for years until the aging Chalk River nuclear facility was closed in 2018
So it became necessary to import the nuclear material from other countries