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Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing | Volume 2
October 24-25, 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland
2nd European
Nursing Congress
International Conference on
Clinical Nursing & Practice
Joint Event
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J Intensive Crit Care Nurs, Volume 2
Listeria: Truth or Scare. A Fresh Look at Stale Guidelines
Katya Simon, Valentina Simon, Rebeca Barroso and Mickey Gillmor
Arlington-Fairfax Clinic, USA
Listeria is a foodborne pathogen capable of crossing the
placental-foetal barrier. The exposed foetus may suffer
blindness, neurological damage including meningitis, or even
death. An analysis of USA federal datasets revealed outdated
clinical guidelines, as demonstrated by comparison between
foods recalled for Listeria contamination and the foods
pregnant women are educated to avoid. While all confirmed
listeriosis outbreaks prior to 2000 originated from foods listed
in the USA federal guidelines, by 2015-2016 such foods were
only responsible for 5% of cases. Contamination shifted from
high-risk foods identified in the 1998 federal guidelines into
previously unavailable ready-to-eat foods. A dynamic food
supply requires dynamic real-time feedback to the consumer.
We present an app, that places previously
unsearchable USA federal food safety datasets, maintained
by multiple agencies, onto every woman’s cell phone in
the grocery aisle, exemplifying the concept of consumer-
driven “dynamic guidelines”. Currently, the app is expanding
to include other food-borne illnesses. As current Listeria
prevention guidelines are obsolete, pregnant women need
access to real-time information in order to make informed
decisions.
Speaker Biography
Katya Simon, CNM, MSN, MS is a midwife at Arlington-Fairfax Clinic in
Virginia. Her habit of thinking as a scientist was ingrained during her
previous career as a research chemist and reinforced during midwifery
studies in Frontier Nursing University. As a graduate of the Johns Hopkins
School of Nursing, she worked in diverse birth settings. In addition to
midwifery practice, Katya engages in national-level work for the American
College of Nurse-Midwives, in the Division of Research. Katya’s 2018
publication on listeriosis was recognized as a top 3 submission by a new
author to the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. In 2019, Katya
authored a chapter on unexpected birth outcomes, co-authored with a
former ACNM president Ginger Breedlove, in a recent book “Nobody Told
Me About That: The first 6 weeks”.
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