The focus: Hygiene in the focus: large forum in Zell am See on June 26, 2025!

The focus: Hygiene in the focus: large forum in Zell am See on June 26, 2025!

The International Hagleitner Hygienforum, which takes place eight years after its foundation in Zell am See, is devoted to the topic "Medical Devices: Risks and Side effects ask your hygienist". Experts from various healthcare disciplines will meet on exciting discussions and lectures on June 26 and 27, 2025. Leading heads such as Didier, a renowned Swiss infectiologist, and Hans Hirschmann, President of the Austrian Society for Hospital Hygiene, will share their findings to illuminate the challenges of medical devices.

The event is aimed at experts from acute, work and preventive medicine, rehabilitation and long-term care. The event location, the Hagleitner Academy, offers the ideal environment for this important exchange. The accreditation for press tickets is possible until June 25, 2025, 12:00 p.m., whereby further information is provided on the website of the Hagleitner Academy here .

Current topics in hygiene

The Hagleitner hygiene forum will not be the only event that deals with the urgent questions of hygiene in healthcare. At the end of February, the second forum hygiene of the Aeskulap Academy took place in Berlin, in which around 180 experts, including hygiene supporters and doctors, took part. Here, topics with direct practical relevance, such as the manual preparation of semicritic medical devices and the requirements of Krinko, were intensively discussed. The debate about the challenges of machine disinfection was one main point, since not all facilities can finance the necessary equipment reports the HCM magazine .

In addition, Martin Groth emphasized the crucial role of examination officers as multipliers, while other spokesmen like Kathrin Labahn deal with the need to improve the impairing disinfection. The effects of climate change on the health sector were also discussed, which shows that hygiene is not only a medical but also a social concern.

training in hygiene management

In today's world, it is essential that health care workers have in -depth knowledge of hygiene management. Further training in the hygiene management of the AZW offers the necessary competencies to implement effective hygiene management systems in health institutions. The graduates are enabled: to set up evidence documentation and to ensure compliance with the legal basis of hospital hygiene Azw .

This further training includes 145 teaching units theory and a 40-hour internship, and the courses are offered as blended elearning. This flexible form of teaching enables the participant: to obtain practical knowledge in areas such as epidemiology, microbiology and infection prevention. The budget for the course is 1,925 euros, with a cost share of 50 euros for employees: Inside Tirol Kliniken GmbH. The next final exam will take place on June 16, 2026.