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Getting Shown the Light: A First-Person Perspective of Deploying a UV-C Disinfection Program

Author: Marc-Oliver Wright, MT(ASCP), MS, CIC, FAPIC

January 10, 2020

At the beginning of 2016, I was facing a problem. My 653-bed adult and pediatric academic medical campus had received...

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Clostridium difficile: Hiding in Plain Sight?

Author: Frances (Fran) K. Canty, MA, BSN, RN, VA-BC™

August 7, 2019

Healthcare workers are hypersensitive to the dreaded words, Clostridium difficile (C. diff.). Like a category 5 hurricane, its impact can...

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History and Evolution of Surface Disinfectants

Author: Caitlin Stowe MPH, CPH, CIC,

March 30, 2018

The history of surface cleaning and disinfection is a fascinating story that dates back thousands of years ago, when Egyptians...

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Quaternary Ammonium Disinfectants: Lost in Translation?

Author: Joan Hebden, RN, MS, CIC, FAPIC

June 29, 2017

There has been a plethora of scientific literature demonstrating that healthcare-associated pathogens, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococci...

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