VAP/VAE/NV-HAP: This webinar will explore the challenges of HAP diagnosis, the panel’s framework & criteria for making recommendations, and thorniest issues including oral care with chlorhexidine, subglottic secretion drainage, selective digestive decontamination, and NV-HAP prevention.

Implementation Strategies for Prevention & Hand Hygiene: This webinar will focus on the standard approach to implementation, assessing determinants of change, choosing appropriate measures and selecting a framework, as well as a summary of the new hand hygiene content on glove use and prevention and environmental contamination from the 2023 Compendium.  In addition, some of the most difficult hand hygiene issues will be explored to include the role fingernails play in hand hygiene and what measurement strategies are most effective for improvement in hand hygiene compliance.

CDI & MRSA: The purpose of this webinar is to update healthcare personnel on the latest science that drives the practice of prevention of C. difficile and MRSA infection in acute care hospitals presented in the recently published SHEA compendia. Essential practices and additional approaches for CDI and MRSA prevention, as well as controversial and unresolved issues will be discussed, particularly those that have been updated since the previous compendia published in 2014.

CLABSI & CAUTI: The purpose of this webinar is to review essential practices new to the 2022 Compendium.  Discussion will focus on Additional approaches such as use of antimicrobial impregnated/coated catheters, use of antimicrobial lock solutions for long term vascular access and use of vascular access teams. Some Unresolved issues will also be discussed such as surveillance of infections caused by other vascular catheters such as short-term peripheral catheters and use of antiseptic-containing end caps (so called port protectors).