Clinical Skills: Blood Cultures
- Wash hands using soap and water
- Introduce self
- Check name with patient and on name band
- Ask permission to take blood sample to check for any bacteria in the blood
- Blood culture bottles - aerobic and anaerobic
- make sure these are in date
- note the optimal blood volume recommended on the side of the bottle (usually 8-10mls) - you should be aiming for adding this amount of blood to the bottle
- Chlorhexidine swabs
- Barrel
- Needle/Butterfly (depending on Medical School/Hospital Trust policy)
- Tourniquet
- Gloves
- Cotton wool/gauze
- Tape
- Aerobic bottle first (as there will be spare gas in the needle or Butterfly)
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written by: celine_lakra; joel_cunningham,
first posted on: 1/03/12, 17:00
first posted on: 1/03/12, 17:00
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