{"id":9977,"date":"2020-11-16T23:18:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T23:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdihc.com\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:21:24","slug":"ict-qa-infection-preventionists-keep-hospitals-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdihc.com\/ict-qa-infection-preventionists-keep-hospitals-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"ICT Q&amp;A: Infection Preventionists Keep Hospitals on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Infection Control Today\u00ae<\/strong> sat down (virtually) with PDI Clinical Affairs Research Manager, Caitlin Stowe, CIC, MPH, CPHQ, VA-BC, to discuss the challenges Infection Preventionists face when trying to keep hospitals and other healthcare facilities infection free &#8211; or as infection-free as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Excerpt from the interview:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ICT<\/strong>: What are some of the high-touch surfaces that are commonly overlooked in hospitals?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stowe<\/strong>: The first thing I would think is the medication dispensing machine that the nurses use to get medication for their patients out. Those are touched hundreds of times a day, but they may only be disinfected once a day. There is a lot of opportunity for those pathogens that are spread by touch to be transmitted from one healthcare worker to another and potentially to their patients, especially if they don\u2019t do good hand hygiene. The second thing I would do is the pneumatic tube system. It\u2019s really great for transporting medications and maybe even lab samples. But it\u2019s honestly not cleaned very often. We often had spills in those pneumatic tube systems where we\u2019d have to shut it down. 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