On June 10 -11 2024, HARTMANN continued its lecture series “Safety first – Rethinking infection prevention”. Find here the speaker presentations from this year's event ‘Milestones in Infection Prevention and Control’ as recordings, as well as the posters from our poster session.

Mainly to remove visible soils and – only to a small extent – to reduce microbial colonisation of the skin (e.g. in case of contamination with spores of C. difficile). Handwashing is far less indicated than generally believed. Hence...

Preoperative rub-in procedure by the application of a hand disinfectant before donning surgical gloves. Aims at the hands' microbial flora...