IPC Strategies for Special Populations and High-Risk Units
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📌About the Event
IPC Strategies for Special Populations and High-Risk Units is a free online infection-control webinar focused on protecting vulnerable patients in ICUs, NICUs, dialysis units and other critical-care environments. Led by Dr. Sai Shruthi Iyer, the session will cover practical approaches to preventing multidrug-resistant organism outbreaks, auditing infection-control practices and identifying commonly overlooked risks in specialised healthcare units.
ℹ️ Event Details
- Event type: Infection Prevention and Control webinar
- Mode of conduct: Online
- Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Key areas covered:
- Prevention and management of multidrug-resistant organism, or MDRO, outbreaks in ICUs
- Auditing important IPC parameters in critical-care units
- Commonly missed infection-prevention practices in NICUs
- Infection-control practices and misconceptions associated with dialysis units
- Practical outbreak-prevention strategies for high-risk healthcare settings
- Speaker: Dr. Sai Shruthi Iyer
- Speaker qualifications: MBBS, MD in Microbiology and FRCPath
- Speaker’s professional roles:
- Head of Microbiology and Infection Control, Sankara Eye Foundation India
- Co-founder, MicroQuora India Private Limited
📅 Important Dates
- Webinar date: 17 June 2026
- Webinar time: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM IST
🎯 Eligibility & Rules
- The webinar is particularly relevant for:
- Doctors and medical professionals
- Nurses and nursing students
- Microbiologists
- Infection-control professionals
- Hospital quality managers and NABH coordinators
- ICU, NICU and dialysis-unit staff
- Public-health and healthcare-management students
- Medical and allied-health students interested in infection prevention
- Participants must complete the official registration process to reserve a place.
🏆 Benefits for the Participants
- Participants will receive practical knowledge about infection prevention in ICUs, NICUs and dialysis units.
- Attendees can learn methods for identifying gaps in existing infection-control practices.
- The session can help healthcare professionals improve auditing, outbreak preparedness and patient-safety procedures.
- Participants will have an opportunity to learn from an experienced microbiology and infection-control specialist.