Upcoming Educational Lecture

Reducing the Risk of Surgical Site Infection Through a Consilient Evidence-Based Perspective
with Dr. Charles E. Edmiston, Jr. PhD, CIC, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Wednesday March 24, 2010
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Diamond Lecture Hall, BC Cancer Research Centre
675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC (map)

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What's new?

• Surgical Site Infection Prevention Online Education Module Now Available!
• Hand Hygiene Resource Page
• Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Care & Maintenance Online Education Module
• H1N1 Swine-Origin Influenza Pandemic: Guidance, New, Updates, Links and Tools
• PICNet's 2008-2009 Annual Report 
• Conference Report and Presentations from PICNet's recent 2009 Educational Conference "We're All in This Together"
• "Protecting the Health of Health Care Workers: A Global Perspective" (February 2009) Click here for more details
  

PICNet Guidelines and Documents:

• New Gastrointestinal Infections Outbreak Guidelines, Feedback Form
• Evidience Summary Tables - Effects of Isolation, Exclusion Policy, Role of Pets and Animal in Transmission, Droplet Spread, Short Term Immunity
• Recommendations for Baseline Assessment and Management of Health Care Workers who are Cases or Contacts of Mumps (Occupational Health and Mumps Vaccine Expert Working Group) July 29, 2009
• PICNet Infection Control Guidelines: Providing Health Care to the Client Living in the Community August 1, 2009
• PICNet's "Respiratory Outbreak Prevention and Control Guidelines" June 2007
  • BCCDC Update for Oseltamivir Resistance Guidelines December 2008
• PICNet's Clostridium Difficile Surveillance Protocol
• For more PICNet guidelines and documents, visit our Publications section.

Who we are:

Established in January 2005 by the British Columbia Ministry of Health Services, PICNet is a provincially supported infection control knowledge collaborative, providing guidance and advice on healthcare associated infection prevention and control in BC. Focused primarily on surveillance, evidence-based practice, and education and training, PICNet encourages and facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration, creating opportunities for healthcare professionals with an interest in infection control to work together to identify priorities and solutions. (more)