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==Blood Culture considerations== | ==Blood Culture considerations== | ||
A single blood culture is: | |||
* Different ports of the same line are considered more than one site. | * a blood culture that is taken from a single site at a single time and inoculated into any number of bottles. | ||
*If either the '''sites''' or '''times''' that the blood culture was taken are '''different''', then this is considered to be '''separate blood cultures'''. | |||
* '''Different ports of the same line''' are considered '''more than one site'''. | |||
* If the tip of a removed line is cultured as positive, but the blood cultures are negative, this is not a central line infection. (see criteria above: must have positive blood culture(s).) | * If the tip of a removed line is cultured as positive, but the blood cultures are negative, this is not a central line infection. (see criteria above: must have positive blood culture(s).) | ||