Latest Sarscov2 Podcast Episodes
8: Fitness at the Fore – an interview with Hannah Lanel
Clean Matters - May 18, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutesThe Fore has been described as “one of the slickest fitness studios in London” by Forbes magazine; the “best fitness classes in London” by GQ magazine; and a “lovely studio with great staff” according to Google review. Meeting Hannah, it is unsurprising the reviews are so resoundingly positive...
7: Golf is tricky with David Edwards
Clean Matters - March 04, 2022 00:00 - 39 minutesTo be a pro golfer was David Edwards’s dream. We hear his story from Catterick to Mauritius via Hong Kong. We hear of the ambitious young upstart who through determination and talent, forged his own career within the sport to become David ‘Trick Shot’ Edwards. He’s played golf on the QE2 he’ s be...
6: ‘All Things Toilet’
Clean Matters - December 21, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutesThis episode looks into the unspoken world of men’s and sometimes women’s toilets. We meet Mark and Dave a couple of likely lads, fully adept in the art of urinal etiquette. Their company P-wave, have gone where no man has gone before, into the deep dark corners, smells, and splashes of our some...
5: The Return to Travel
Clean Matters - July 04, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutesThis episode Neil and Eleanor meet Penny Worthy, business development director at Silver Travel Advisor, an award-winning travel reviews website. Penny has spent her career in the travel and leisure industry and is deeply versed in what is happening across this important sector. As travel ...
4: Is FAR-UV a Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Clean Matters - May 13, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutesIn this episode, Neil and Eleanor meet Mike Humphreys from Aerocare Aviation Services and find out how they have got involved in offering UVC solutions to disinfect air, surfaces and people, starting out with aeroplane interiors and expanding into football stadiums and beyond. Mike offers a simp...
3: Reflections on Infections and Scientific Cleaning
Clean Matters - April 21, 2021 00:00 - 34 minutesIn this episode Neil and Eleanor reflect on what is happening beyond COVID with other types of infection and health trends before getting into conversation with Nigel Cotterill from SGI industries and James White from Rawlins to discuss scientific cleaning, innovative ways to dispense sanitiser ...
2: Emerging From the Pandemic: Making Sure Everyone Feels Safe at Festivals
Clean Matters - March 30, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutesThis week Eleanor and Neil chat with Ben Taylor from House of Honey. Ben and his team have created an incredible community of like-minded souls who gather every year to enjoy a festival celebrating Love, Kindness and Tolerance, as well as getting together for other parties through the year. Th...
1: Meet the Hosts of the Clean Matters Podcast
Clean Matters - March 19, 2021 22:18 - 19 minutesIn the inaugural episode of the Clean Matters Podcast. The hosts Dr Neil Bacon and Eleanor Matthews introduce themselves and reveal what and who will be covered in the first few episodes.
14. Health Care Worker Infections
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - June 10, 2020 04:07 - 13 minutesToday we’re addressing a question that’s been at the forefront of many of our minds as we’ve been caring for COVID patients: we’re talking all about healthcare worker infections. Despite an extensive review of the literature, there are still many unanswered questions; but here is what we know s...
Pandemic PTSD and Frontline Workers: Lessons Learned from a Global Perspective
Tech, Tips and Tools: Enhancing Your COVID-19 Response - June 03, 2020 19:57 - 17 minutesHCPs are heroes...every day they enter battle with an unseeable enemy. But, at what cost to their own mental health? Earn Credit / Learning Objectives & Disclosures: https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/931150?src=mkm_podcast_series_931150 Host: Dr. Hansa Bhargava @HansaBhargavaMD
Predicting Pandemics: Could Wearables Be Our Next Watchdogs?
Tech, Tips and Tools: Enhancing Your COVID-19 Response - June 01, 2020 18:29 - 15 minutesWe didn't see this one coming...but could we see the next one sooner? Let's explore some of the latest wearable technologies that may identify some precursors as a warning. Earn Credit / Learning Objectives & Disclosures: https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/931144?src=mkm_podcast_addon_931144...
13. Super Spreaders
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - June 01, 2020 13:00 - 15 minutesThey may sound like superheroes, but they’re more like the villains of these COVIDian times. We’re talking all about superspreaders today! What is a superspreader? Definition: an unusually contagious organism infected with a disease These are not new! Remember Typhoid Mary?1 Also des...
The PPE Crisis: Strategies for Meeting a Critical Need in a Pandemic -- PART 2
Tech, Tips and Tools: Enhancing Your COVID-19 Response - May 28, 2020 18:16 - 17 minutesExplore the PPE supply crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic...how can you play a role in effecting the supply chain? Earn Credit / Learning Objectives & Disclosures: https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/930882?src=mkm_podcast_series_930882 Host: Dr. Hansa Bhargava @HansaBhargavaMD
12. Remdesivir Returns: The ACTT-1 Trial
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 27, 2020 04:08 - 11 minutesThey teased us with a press release weeks ago, and Faucci has been promoting it ever since – and now, we finally have the data from the ACTT-1 trial on remdesivir. Here we take a closer look to see if this really is the “very promising result” it was sold as. Reminder: background on remdes...
11. POCUS for COVID
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 22, 2020 13:55 - 10 minutesToday we’re focused on POCUS! Here’s what you need to know about point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19. Potential advantages to POCUS in COVID Lack of ionizing radiation Superiority to CXR for common diagnoses1 PPE conservation: performed by treating physician2 Potential to reduce ...
The PPE Crisis: Strategies for Meeting a Critical Need in a Pandemic -- PART 1
Tech, Tips and Tools: Enhancing Your COVID-19 Response - May 21, 2020 22:09 - 25 minutesExplore the PPE supply crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic: what led to it, possible solutions clinicians can take to stay safe. Earn Credit / Learning Objectives & Disclosures --- Full URLs: Earn Credit / Learning Objectives & Disclosures: https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/930612?src=mk...
10. COVID-associated Kawasaki Disease
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 19, 2020 10:30 - 13 minutesWe’re talking about the little adults today! In particular, we’re diving into the reported Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome/Kawasaki Disease that has been reported in association with COVID-19 in kids. COVID in Peds: what we know Epidemiology Infection rates are generally low: childr...
9. Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 19, 2020 10:30 - 7 minutesToday we’re talking about something that has been on the mind of many mothers and mothers-to-be: the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy and breastfeeding. COVID-19 and pregnancy The national obstetrical and gynecologic societies of Canada, the USA, and UK have all issued guidance on COVID-19...
COVID-19: Immunity and Collateral Damage
Tech, Tips and Tools: Enhancing Your COVID-19 Response - May 18, 2020 15:57 - 28 minutesConsider the current understanding of immunity post SARS-CoV-2 infection, herd immunity and what we might be missing while we hyper-focus on COVID-19. Earn Credit / Learning Objectives & Disclosures --- Full URLs: Earn Credit / Learning Objectives & Disclosures: https://www.medscape.org/v...
Episode 2 - The return of the aerosol
CoVcast19 - May 18, 2020 02:36 - 31 minutesWelcome back to episode 2 as we explore aerosol generating procedures and what this means for risk of transmission to health care workers of SARS-CoV-2. Narrative literature review on Airborne SARS-CoV-2 transmission to supplement podcast. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/an...
8. Lopinavir/Ritonavir
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 15, 2020 20:37 - 10 minutesLike Voldemort at the end of The Goblet of Fire, lopinavir/ritonavir seems to have come back from the dead…maybe? The background SARS Open-label study showed improved clinical outcomes (combo of ARDS or death) with ribavirin plus lopinavir/ritonavir compared to ribavirin alone1 MERS ...
7. Hypercoagulability
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 15, 2020 20:30 - 8 minutesToday we’re exploring a COVID-complication that has caught a lot of attention on social media: hypercoagulability. Clinical features Part of the syndrome of immune hyperactivity seen in severe SARS-CoV-2 infection is activation of complement pathways involved in coagulation Termed COVID-as...
6. Vaccines
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 12, 2020 01:49 - 6 minutesWe’re looking optimistically to the future today and talking about the development of potential vaccines for COVID. All the information below has been amalgamated from the review pieces cited. Vaccine development landscape Researchers across the country are devoting huge amounts of time a...
5. Immunity and COVID-19
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 12, 2020 01:46 - 8 minutesToday we’re tackling a question with a lot of public health implications as we consider how to move forward in this pandemic (and potentially being to loosen restrictions). A huge part of that equation is the question of immunity: are people who have previously been infected immune to COVID; or ...
4. Hydroxychloroquine
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 12, 2020 01:16 - 8 minutesToday we’re focusing on a hot topic – the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for treatment of COVID-19. This drug had a lot of buzz early on, but recent data has been lukewarm at best. Background: why chloroquine? Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are old medications generally use...
3. Remdesivir
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 11, 2020 04:44 - 13 minutesHot topic alert! We’re unpacking the latest evidence around remdesivir – miracle drug, or overblown hype? What is remdesivir? Anti-viral that has been studied in vitro and in pre-clinical/animal models showing promising effects for COVID-19: Preventing symptoms occurrence if given earl...
2. Self-Monitoring for COVID-19
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 11, 2020 04:41 - 9 minutesToday we’re going back to some critical public health basics: self-monitoring, self-isolation (and the key difference between them), and how to care for someone with COVID-19. Sources All the information in today’s podcast was taken from the attached BC CDC graphics: How to Self-Moni...
1. Overview of COVID-19
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 11, 2020 04:37 - 11 minutesWelcome to Viruswatch! Your source for short and sweet updates about all things COVID-19. Today we’re starting off with the basics and covering a broad overview of what you NEED to know about this novel coronavirus; with a particular focus on virus transmission. Note that many topics will be exp...
Viral Watch Episode 1
Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing - May 04, 2020 21:28 - 8 minutesEpisode 1 - We’re covering COVID basics: virology 101, transmission, clinical presentation, testing, and management. It’s what you need to know about coronavirus
Episode 1 - Airborne Transmission - fact? false? dangerous? dogma?
CoVcast19 - April 23, 2020 14:59 - 28 minutesWelcome to episode 1 of CoVcast19. We dive into the clouded world of aerobiology discovering the mechanisms of aerosol generation and how this combines with respiratory viral transmission. Are current guidelines based on comprehensive evidence? Or, false dogma with dangerous assumptions? Why don...