COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak: How to take blood cultures
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- Prepare the needed materials: Blood culture sets consisting of aerobic, anaerobic, and fungus bottles (2-3 sets); 20mL syringes; sterile needles; and disinfection spray.
- Fill the syringes (one for each set) with 24 mL of blood, preferably under sterile conditions.
- Uncover the bottle tops and disinfect them with alcohol. Wait until the bottle is dry before beginning the injection.
- Inject 8 mL of blood into each bottle. To reduce contamination, do so in the following order: fungus, anaerobic, then aerobic bottle. No air should be injected into the bottles. Use the same needle for one set. Mix the bottles after injection.
- Repeat the injection for each set of culture bottles.
- Label the bottles, one label for each bottle.
- Transport each set of bottles in a transport bag. For COVID-19 patients, mark the transport bags as infective and send them to the microbiology laboratory.
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