The Twentieth Congress of the International Federation of Infection
Control (IFIC2020) will run from Wednesday 11 March 2020 until Saturday
14 March 2020. The official language of the congress shall be English,
while the plenary sessions and one parallel session will offer
simultaneous interpretation to Serbian.
CONFERENCE VENUE
Hotel Hilton BeogradREGISTRATION FEES
| CATEGORY |
EARLY Until 01.02.2020 |
LATE After 01.02.2020 |
ONSITE After 08.03.2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Participants who are not doctors (nurses, students) | 150 EUR | 200 EUR | 250 EUR |
| Doctors | 175 EUR | 225 EUR | 275 EUR |
DELEGATE REGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES:
access to scientific sessions and exhibition areas,
congress bag, abstracts and scientific programme,
welcome cocktail on Wednesday evening,
coffee breaks,
simple lunches on Thursday and Friday.
THE REGISTRATION FEE DOES NOT INCLUDE:
accommodation
ACCOMODATION
Delegates are responsible for their own hotel reervation. Hotel reservations shall be made directly with the hotel of your choice. The following hotels are offering a dedicated congress rate for conference attendees. All listed hotels are within walking distance to the congress venue.
Double room: 50 EUR /night
Hotel Slavija*
200 metres walking distance from the conference venue
Single standard room: 18 EUR /night
Double standard room: 32 EUR /night
Single standard plus room: 27 EUR /night
Double standard plus room: 38 EUR /night
POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR IFIC 2020 CONFERENCE- ADDITIONS FROM 5 SEPTEMBER 2019 MEETING
| WHO Core Components of IPC 1. IPC Team 2. Evidence based IPC guidelines and standards 3. IPC Education & Training 4. Surveillance 5. Multimodal strategies 6. Monitoring/audit of IPC practices with feedback and program evaluation 7. Workload, staffing, bed occupancy 8. Built environment, hand hygiene facilities, sanitation, environmental health |
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5,6 Surgical Site Infections (SSI)
5,6 Device-associated infections – plenary + workshop
4,5,6 BSI
4,5,6 Pneumonia
4West Nile infection – common in local area; encephalitis
4Migrant infections, migrants as vulnerable populations, STDs, BBP
4Microbiology
CDI diagnostic tests
MDRO: are we aware how big a problem it is?
Screening: what, when, where, and how often?
4 Resistant organisms, including Candida auris, (Lisa Ryan, Brompton) MDR Acinetobacter
2,5,6 Antibiotic Stewardship – COMBACTE
Preliminary results from the CAMBACTE EURECA study (Jesus Bano)
Preliminary results from the COMBACTE ASPIRE ICU study (Marc Bonte)
WHO AMR protocol? (Daniela? –Professor Hanan Balkhy)
2,5,6 Surgical prophylaxis – Antibiotic stewardship from pharmacologic perspective
8 Disinfection/cleaning – what are the standards?
8 The role of the environment, cleaning, and transmission of organisms
8 Robots – what is the place of this process? (UV, etc.)
6,8 Validation of sterilization, evidence of how standards were met
6,8 Validation of environmental cleaning – Martin Kiernan
1 Infection Control Risk Assessment - workshop
5 WHO Hand Hygienemultimodal strategy– how to conduct observations for 5 moments, managing HH audit data
4 Outbreak management – + workshop, including “soft skills,” reducing endemic levels of infections
4 Measles – public health ministry - Immunizations – European experience or US experience?
3 Behavior change – social workers, management/administration
3 PPE use, practical use, demonstration, especially in areas of low resources
1,2,5 Standard precautions as an important method of infection prevention – measuring compliance
3 Using simulation for education
3 Which competencies are important, what is the best way to teach? What’s the most important message? How to ensure competency
1,7 Role differentiation
1,7 Staffing of IC departments – IPS work DO-IPS study: Emma Burnett and colleagues
