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5 تغريدة 34 قراءة May 18, 2020
بتكلم شوي عن blood culture
A blood culture is a laboratory test in which blood, taken from the patient, and put it into bottles containing culture media to determine whether infection-causing microorganisms (bacteria or fungi) are present in the patient's bloodstream.
Every 3 to 4Seconds someone dies because of sepsis
difference between sepsis & septicemia
Septicemia is defined as having bacteria in the bloodstream that cause sepsis. Sepsis is the body's response to that infection, during which the immune system.
#nursing_intern
How much blood is needed for a blood culture?
-10ml of blood is optimal in each blood culture bottle from adult
-0.5ml in neonate less than 1month
-1ml for child less than 36months
-4ml for children more than 36months
Blood cultures remain the cornerstone for the diagnosis of sepsis.2 bottles are collected: an aerobic bottle, allowing preferential growth of aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms, and an anaerobic bottle, allowing preferential growth of strict anaerobic bacteria.

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