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Guía de práctica clínica para la toma de hemocultivos

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Some factors that affect the performance of blood cultures are skin aseptic technique, blood volume, number of samples, and incubation time. However, blood culture collection is a simple technique; contaminated blood cultures can derive in erroneous diagnosis and treatment, which may increase the patients’ morbimortality. To establish and standardize the procedures and technical resources that allow for generating optimal samples for blood cultures, a multidisciplinary group of experts developed Guía de práctica clínica para la toma de muestra de hemocultivos (Clinical Practice Guide for Blood Culture Sample Collection). This guideline includes recommendations for taking blood samples for blood cultures and blood samples for blood cultures by intravascular devices.

Source: Latin American Journal of Clinical Sciences and Medical Technology

DOI: 10.34141/ljcs9407964

Authors: María del Rosario Vázquez Larios, Martha A. Huertas Jiménez, Carmen Ramos Beltrán, Danae Jiménez Martínez, Arturo Galindo Fraga

Institutions: Instituto Nacional de Cardiología, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán

Language: English

Topic: Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

Subfield: Clinical Biochemistry

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4404317300