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-What is a Blood Culture?
+{{DSM data}}
-A blood culture is a microbiological "procedure" that is ordered as a '''set.'''
+{{Data element
+|field_name=Blood_CS
+|CCMDB_label=
+|CCMDB_tab=Lab
+|in_table=L_Labs_Flowsheet table
+|datafield_length=integer
+|program_collecting=CC
+|created_raw=Raw
+|data_element_start_date=
+|data_element_end_date=2017-03-17
+|data_element_sort_index=22
+|element_description=Contains the number of blood cultures a patient has had during an admission to our unit.
+}}
-'''One set''' consists of 2 to 3 bottles of blood from two different sites. (1 aerobic bottle & 1 or 2 anaerobic bottle)
-Hospital all have a nursing procedure protocol.
+[[Category:Labs]]
-{{Discussion}}
-bottles from 1 venipuncture site, this is not a complete blood culture and the question is "why would a unit not be following a protocol"?
-{{Usually it is because of difficulty accessing blood from patients so staff were not able to send all 3 bottles}}
-Should only be counted as ONE SET of blood cultures.
-[[Category: Labs]]