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- Title
Improving Blood Culture Collection.
- Authors
Nakazawa, Nadine
- Abstract
There are national initiatives to target ZERO central line associated bloodstream infections. Strategies have been widely implemented around line insertion and line maintenance. However, clinicians oftentimes do not understand proper blood culture collection, especially when the patient does not have good peripheral veins. This presentation reviews key principles around the purpose of blood cultures and proper technique in order to get accurate results. Many clinicians are unclear about what "time-to-positivity" blood cultures are all about and how they differ from standard blood culture collections. Blood cultures drawn from central lines have much higher contamination rates. How to decrease contamination and decrease false positives is discussed.
- Subjects
BLOOD collection; CATHETER-related infections; CENTRAL venous catheters; DISEASE risk factors; INFECTION prevention
- Publication
Vascular Access, 2014, Vol 8, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
1913-6692
- Publication type
Article