Blood culture Use only BacT-Alert bottles.
Clean the collection site and the rubber bungs of the blood culture bottles with alcohol wipes prior to specimen collection and allow to dry.
Blood from adults should be split into aerobic and anaerobic
bottles. NOTE – fill anaerobic bottle first unless using safety collection sets/butterfly needles then fill aerobic bottle first due to air in the tubing.
A single Paediatric bottle should always be used for children.
Do not remove the bar codes from the bottles nor obscure them with labels.
Reports usually ready within 24 hours but some organisms take longer
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