In drawing blood cultures from a central line to evaluate for CLABSI, do you advise drawing separate blood cultures from each port in case of dual or triple lumen line?
If yes, what is the rationale for doing that?
Answer from: at Community Practice
You don't need to use the central line to draw those cultures. Using the line to draw blood can in it by itself pose risk of introducing a microorganisms. NHSN CLABSi definition does not call for blood culture to be done from a line.
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at University of Louisville What about differential time to positivity?
I recently reviewed the perspective article from OFID (Mermel & Rupp, PMID 38770214) that tried to address the nuances related to the diagnosis of CLABSI and provided some expert guidance. I strongly recommend reading this article.The authors begin the discussion by saying there is no practical ...
What about differential time to positivity?