Built environment and IPC

Event Description

Identifying risk is central to tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR); once understood, effective measures can be developed. Standard infection prevention and control (IPC) practices may prove insufficient when transmission stems from a persistent environmental reservoir such as MDRO outbreaks from water, wastewater and ventilation requiring new solutions and a new way of working. Climate change, new technologies and changes in the availability of resources will further create a necessity for us to rethink our perspectives about the future hospital-built environment.

The two-day workshop “Built Environment and IPC” evaluates the relationship between physical structures and clinical safety, focusing on:

• Hospital Design & Layout: Ward layout, patient flow, and the role of the infection prevention and control team in facility maintenance.
• Water and wastewater systems: Design features of water systems, control measures, and responses to water-borne outbreaks.
• Ventilation & Air Quality: Requirements for specialist ventilated areas (e.g., operating theatres, isolation facilities, and critical care units).
• Waste Management: Definition of different types of waste generated in different areas within the hospital, infrastructure requirements for healthcare risk waste storage.
• Technological and Ecological disruption: The impact of climate change and new technologies on the built environment and healthcare strategy execution

Intended audience: 
Medical doctors, pharmacists, nurses or other healthcare professionals with a MSc or PhD are eligible.

Objectives:
The Built Environment and IPC module aims to equip IPC professionals with the knowledge to reduce AMR and HAI by integrating IPC principles into the planning, design, construction, and operation of healthcare facilities. The module places special emphasis on critical elements such as water and wastewater management, patient and staff flow, ventilation, material selection, sustainability and the impact of new ecological and technological disruptions.

Course coordinators:
Joost Hopman, University Medical Center Groningen & Wolfgang Sunder, Technical University Braunschweig

Organisers:
Built Environment Infection Prevention Initiative (BEIPI Europe) EUCIC working group

Accreditation:
ESCMID office will apply for EACCME accreditation. Participants must complete the course evaluation to be eligible to receive their CME credits.

Certification:
Course organisers will monitor attendance. Only participants attending sessions will be able to receive the certification.

Course Venue: 
TBD

Accommodation: 
Accommodation is not included in the registration. 

Registration details: 
Registration fees include full access to the course, coffee breaks and lunches listed on the programme. Travel costs and accommodation are not included with either fee.

Deadlines
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• Built environment course programme