I live in Ontario where we are blessed with the Great
Lakes and the Trent-Severn Waterway, a meandering 386 km river and lake
system with locks that is absolutely gorgeous, but then I spend every weekend
on the Trent so am a bit biased. We have
fish, water snakes (I'm not so partial to those), osprey, beavers, fishers,
crows and of course our share of bugs and noxious weeds such as poison ivy that
we need to worry about, but the water is clear, clean and cooling when we want
to take a dip! To my knowledge there are
no parasites or bacteria that we need to be wary of.
For those of us who live in a climate where we have to suffer through winter, we generally cannot wait until the warmth of summer arrives. Inevitably we are also the same people that after several days of scorching heat complain that it's too hot. I may be hot, I may be sweaty, but by gosh, I'd rather be warm than cold... well within reason of course! Summer is also a time for many to hit the gym. Whether its university students returning home for the summer looking to see and be seen or those of us not blessed with naturally formed bikini bodies, summer and the gym are synonymous - as we get older if we want to enjoy that extra beer and burger we need to do a few more miles on the treadmill and extra crunches to keep our stomachs in check.
While I am likely dating myself, when the first case of
MERS was reported to hit the US, followed by a second, and then one emerged in
Canada the scene from Poltergeist where Carol Anne Freeling (played by Heather
O'Rourke) say's "They're Here!" instantly jumped into my head. Only for MERS - it was more like "It's
Here!"
In putting together a "surprise" for the
IPAC-Canada and APIC conferences it dawned on me that while Lee & I have
talked around the various areas that one should consider with respect to
determining the safety profile of a disinfectant chemistry we have not gotten
into the nitty-gritty of PPE. In my
travels, I have had many a HCW tell me they use "the CANCER wipe" and
that they would NEVER use the wipe without gloves (goggles and in some cases
even masks). However, try as a I may, I
have been unable to find a wipe commercially branded under that name.
At times, nothing can be more polarizing
than the discussion of how to reprocess semi-critical and critical
devices. I've experienced this first
hand as a member of the Reprocessing Subcommittee for the CSA
Z314.8-14 standard. A room full of
experts with differing opinions on the concept of A0
is something to behold (not quite as good as a fight between siblings mind you),
but passion abounds around A0!
It's unfathomable that 2013 is almost at a close. In writing this, our last and 52nd blog of
the year Lee and I wanted to review the year and share what we and others think
the Top 10 Talk Clean To Me blogs were.
In writing the blog, I'm undecided if you should keep David Letterman's
Top 10 in mind (Lee's pick) or because I'm singing along to Christmas Carols if
perhaps the 12 Days of Christmas or The Sound of Music's "These are a few
of my favorite things" should be the theme song to hum while you read (obviously
I vote for humming!). I'll leave the
decision to you and hope you agree with our Top 10 picks.
I'm not one for themes - well unless it comes to planning
birthday parties: CARS, Angry Birds or surprise parties for "big"
milestones. In writing our weekly blogs,
Lee and I have tried to weave a story about the use of disinfectants for
infection prevention. However
unintentional, this month, as I plan out topics for the blog, I'm seeing a
theme develop - viruses.
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