Blood Collection for Culture

• Blood culture is a laboratory test used to detect the presence of what in the patient's blood?

  Microorganisms
• Give 2 examples of microorganisms?

  bacteria and fungi
• Blood culture aids in what 2 things?

  determining the PRESENCE and SEVERITY of infections and identifying the MICROORGANISM responsible for the INFECTION.
• Blood is usually what?

  Sterile
• What is the mnemonics for the equipment used in blood culture?

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• What are the equipment used in blood culture?

  Blood culture bottles, antiseptic solution, needles and syringe, blood collection tubes, requisition forms, alcohol swabs, transport containers, gauze or adhesive bandages, and sterile gloves
• Blood culture bottles are of what color?

  Light yellow
• Light yellow blood culture bottles contain what?

  Sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS)
• How many times should you invert a light yellow blood culture bottle containing SPS?

  8 times
• A blood culture bottle can create how many blood cultures?

  2-4 blood cultures
• What is matched in blood culture bottles?

  aerobic and anaerobic
• What should be processed first, aerobic or anaerobic blood culture bottles?

  Aerobic
• What is the capacity of one culture bottle?

  8-10 mL
• One culture uses how many mL of the content of a blood culture bottle?

  1-5 mL
• What antiseptic solution is used in blood culture procedure?

  70% isopropyl wipe
• 70% isopropyl wipe is followed by what?

  2% chlorhexidine antiseptic solution or 1 or 2% iodine solution
• Blood culture procedure uses what type of blood collection set?

  Winged blood collection set with a LUER ADAPTER
• What is the mnemonics of the blood culture collection systems?

  FAT BB
• Give the 5 Blood culture collection systems?

  Fastidious antimicrobial neutralization (FAN) blood collection system, antimicrobial removal devices (ARDs), The Septi-Check System and the Isolator System (Wampole Lab), BacT/ALERT 3D system (bioMerieux), and BACTEC continuous-monitoring system
• Bacteremia: bacteria or toxins are present in the bloodstream
• Bacteremia is also known as what?

  Septicemia
• What is the mnemonics for the symptoms of Bacteremia?

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• What are the symptoms of bacteremia?

  Chills, fever of unknown origin, malaise, alterations in mental status, and low blood pressure
• Sepsis: a life-threatening condition characterized by an exaggerated and dysregulated immune response to the blood infection.
• Results for blood culture are released within how many days?

  1-3 days
• Detection of fungi and viruses can take how many weeks?

  weeks
• What is considered an INTEGRAL PART of the collection process of blood culture?

  Skin antisepsis
• Scrub the venipuncture site for how long to minimize contamination?

  30-60 seconds