title: Pseudomonas--an opportunistic foe.
abstract: An honest account of some of the lessons learned in how to protect patients, staff, and visitors, against waterborne Pseudomonas aeruginosa by effectively monitoring a large healthcare facility's water supply, identifying potential 'trigger points', harnessing the expertise of a multidisciplinary team, encouraging all staff to 'go the extra mile' preventatively, and above all, 'going beyond compliance', was provided by George McCracken, head of Estates Risk and Environment at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust--in whose Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital three young babies died after an outbreak of the bacteraemia in early 2012--at a recent Water Management Society conference. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
authors: Jonathan
authors: J
authors: Baillie
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006797:Housekeeping, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D017751:Safety Management; D006113:United Kingdom; D014871:Water Microbiology