Recordings from Annual Scientific Meeting 2023

This year the ASM was held in Newcastle where Joost Hopman gave the Kelsey lecture on the challenges of decontamination in low resource settings.

We covered the challenges of a DIPC, decontamination incidents and investigations, human factors, mobile decontamination units, the four nations view of dental decontamination and The Great debate on manufacturers instructions.

Enjoy these educational recordings.

Kelsey Lecture: The challenges of decontamination in low resource settings – Joost Hopman

Trials and Tribulations of a DIPC – Pat Cattini

The Great Debate: “This house believes that manufacturers’ instructions are restrictive and detrimental to instrument reprocessing.

Moderator: David Jenkins

For the motion: Sharon Fox

Against the motion Richard Bancroft

HSIB’s investigation relating to the decontamination of surgical instruments – Neil Alexander

Human Factors: How people bring uncertainty to any system – Elaine Cloutman Green

Mobile treatment units – Essential quality requirements or best practice? – John Prendergast

Interim solutions – reasons to be cheerful! – Jim Tinsdeall

Clinical perspectives on mobile endoscopy units. – Helen Griffiths

The Alphabetti Spaghetti of Dental Decontamination – Andrew Smith

Not so well known risk factors in dental instrument and equipment decontamination – David Coleman

Evolving and embedding guidance – factors that facilitate uptake and progress – Alice Miller

Dental decontamination in Wales – Evidence, policy and practice – IIona Johnson

IPC challenges, risk and opportunities in primary dental care – Ian Mills

Corporate sponsored presentations

Assessing transmission risks and use of an infection prevention toolkit for reprocessing ultrasound probes – Ellie Wishart, Nanosonics

Mobile decontamination units – Jenny Anderson, EMS

Endoscopy rinse water – where we have come from, where are we now, where are we going? – Mett Smart, 2030Labs