Blood culture

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What is a Blood Culture? (Blood C&S)

A blood culture is a microbiological "procedure" that is ordered as a set.

One set consists of 2 to 3 bottles of blood from two different sites within 5 mins or so, of each other. (1 aerobic bottle & 1 or 2 anaerobic bottle) Template:It actually is 2 aerobic bottles and 1 anaerobic bottleJthiessen 15:06, 2014 August 7 (CDT) The set is counted as ONE blood culture for Labs collected list.

Hospital all have a nursing procedure protocol.


Template:Discussion 2 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"?

This should only be counted as ONE SET of blood cultures.

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