Capillary blood cultures

Capillary blood cultures.

Holt, R. J., Frankcombe, C. H., and Newman, R. L. (1974). Archives ofDisease in Childhood, 49, 318. Capillary blood cultures. The need for frequent blood cultures from small babies for the early detection of bacteraemia associated with internal prosthesis colonization led to the development of a method for capillary blood collection. Fingers, toes, or heels were sterilized as well as possible, ...

Guidelines on blood cultures.

Just over one-third of sepsis patients have positive blood cultures, mainly due to inadequate sampling volumes (50% of adults have < 1.0 CFU/mL blood) and the prior use of antibiotics. However, 20-30% of sepsis patients are given inappropriate empirical antibiotics. The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines recommend paired culture sets to help discriminate between contaminant ...

Contamination of blood cultures.

Capillary blood collection in haematology.

A capillary blood collection technique which facilitates the estimation of routine haematological parameters, including platelet count and sedimentation rate, is described. The technique requires 0.5 ml of blood, allows closer reproducibility than pipette collection methods, is suitable for monitoring blood counts in patients receiving cytotoxic agents, and can be integrated with semi-and fully...

Blood cultures in ambulatory outpatients

BACKGROUND Blood cultures are a gold standard specific test for diagnosing many infections. However, the low yield may limit their usefulness, particularly in low-risk populations. This study was conducted to assess the utility of blood cultures drawn from ambulatory outpatients. METHODS Blood cultures drawn at community-based collection sites in the Calgary Health Region (population 1 millio...