HARTMANN at the Freiburg Congress on Infections 2025 Hygiene Under Pressure – Compliance and Innovation in Focus HARTMANN enriched the most important professional event for hygiene experts in the German-speaking world — which attracted over 1,500 participants — by holding a lunch symposium focusing on the care of patients with Clostridioides difficile infections. The key message served alongside the meal was: ’C. difficile can be controlled when theory and practice go hand in hand.‘ The recipe for success involves using personal protective equipment (PPE) and practising good hand hygiene in accordance with guidelines, selecting suitable disinfectants and procedures, and ensuring that practical processes in the isolation room run smoothly. Renowned experts presented the arguments for this assessment in two specialist lectures. Prof. Dr. Markus Dettenkofer, Head of Hygiene and Infection Prevention at SANA Kliniken AG, focused on clinical practice. ’C. difficile in isolation rooms: Safely Implementing Current Recommendations‘, in which he applied new infectious disease medicine findings to everyday ward life. A key takeaway is that C. difficile is primarily transmitted via the hands. Therefore, hand washing and hand disinfection is mandatory for everyone before leaving the room: staff, patients and visitors alike! Afterwards, Dr. Marco Krewing, HARTMANN SCIENCE CENTER, provided information on ’High-level surface disinfection‘, covering topics ranging from occupational safety to cytotoxicity. At the beginning of October, the Advisory Centre for Hygiene (BZH) organised the Freiburg Congress on Infections. This year, the urgent importance of the topics were discussed at the Freiburg Concert Hall. As well as addressing practical questions about endoscopic examinations and the correct diagnosis of infections, the congress also tackled issues such as how to deal with multiresistant pathogens in hospitals. FORUM 21
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