Hand Hygiene: More Than Time Can Slip Through Your Fingers | Carmela Mascio | TEDxWaltham

How often do you think about your hands and the germs that are on them? Carmela Mascio thinks about it all the time. Her passionate presentation includes a participatory demonstration of proper hand hygiene technique, reveals the significant limitations of current hand hygiene methods, the landscape of hospital acquired infections, and a call to action to reject the status quo and prioritize innovation in hand hygiene.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx Carmela Mascio is an infectious disease microbiologist with a passion for taking on “unsolvable” problems and a talent for working in “white space” innovation - problem-spaces that have no template for success and require radically new ways of thinking. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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I am a health care professional and this is nothing but the truth. These things are ingrained in those of us trained in infection control...everyone growing up in the developed and some of the underdeveloped world.

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Hey- i am not about to perform surgery! germs otherwise are good for children and all of us

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