Newsletters
We issue monthly newsletters to keep hospital infection control professionals, nurses, and physicians up-to-date about technical, timely, and important news regarding infection control topics.
Recent DICON Newsletters are listed below as examples of this valuable resource
- January 2021 - SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Health Care Workers
- February 2021 - COVID-19 Vaccine Update
- March 2021 - Chlorhexidine Bathing for CLABSI Prevention: Focusing on the Basics
- April 2021 - Surgical Site Infection Prevention - Which Strategies are Worth the Squeeze? Our “Top 9 List” and Key Takeaways from Recent DICON Investigations
- May 2021 - Blood Culture Contaminants: No Joke
- June 2021 - Updates on the Treatment of C. difficile Infection: Highlights from the New IDSA and ACG Guidelines
- July 2021 - Intraoperative irrigation – Do additives add any benefit?
- August 2021 - COVID-19: Delta Variant Q&A and Vaccine Update
- September 2021 - Candida auris – An emerging global threat
- October 2021 - IDWeek 2021: Highlighted DCASIP Research and Abstracts
- November 2021 - Infection Control Risk Assessment 2.0: Where the Dust Settles
- December 2021 - Ultraviolet Disinfection Devices: A Light Review
- January 2022 - Ventilator-Associated Events – More than Pneumonia
- February 2022 - Infections, Controlled: A Five-Year Review of DICON Surveillance Benchmarks
- April 2022 - Infection Control and Prevention of Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms, Part 1: Definitions and Resources
- March 2022 - Flexible and Semi-Rigid Endoscope Reprocessing – A Closer Look at the Updated ANSI/AAMI Standard