Collection Sites
This is the preferred site for routine blood culture collection.
What is a peripheral venipuncture site?
This disinfectant is the first-choice product for blood culture collection.
What is Prevantics?
How much blood is wasted before inoculating bottles during routine adult peripheral collection?
What is 1.5 mL?
Which bottle is inoculated first?
What is the aerobic bottle?
How long can the tourniquet be left on for before hemolysis can occur?
What is one minute
True or False: Blood cultures can be collected from a newly started peripheral IV.
What is False?
How long should Prevantics be used to scrub the site?
What is 15 seconds?
True or False: Pediatric patients require a waste specimen.
What is False?
Adult blood culture bottles should contain this amount of blood.
What is 8–10 mL per bottle?
Collection times for multiple blood culture sets should be the same or different?
What is different?
Patients with poor vascular access requiring ultrasound IV placement may have cultures collected from this location if strict antiseptic technique is followed and difficult access is documented.
What is an ultrasound-placed peripheral IV?
After cleansing, the site must dry for this amount of time.
What is 30 seconds?
Where do you waste blood at prior to inoculating bottles?
What is a 3ml non-additive clear top tube.
Before inoculation, these must be cleaned because they are not sterile.
What are bottle tops?
When collecting a blood culture and additional laboratory specimens from the same venipuncture, this is the correct order of draw.
What is 3 mL clear-top waste, blood cultures, light blue, non-additive red, red/gold, green, lavender, and gray?
Before collecting blood cultures from a central line, this must occur.
What is a provider order must be entered?
This antiseptic requires 1.5–2 minutes of cleaning time.
What is Povidone-Iodine?
Patients under this weight do not require a waste specimen.
What is less than 40 kg?
This type of syringe should be used when collecting 20 mL of specimen.
What is one 20 mL syringe?
If a patient's skin is visibly dirty, this should be done before antiseptic preparation.
What is washing the site with soap and water?
Multiple blood culture sets should never be collected from this.
What is the same peripheral site?
Name two things you should NOT do after cleaning the site.
What are:
Waste specimens are not indicated for these two collection situations.
What are:
This disinfectant should never be used on culture bottle tops.
What is Povidone-Iodine?
A patient arrives with an implanted port already accessed. Before collecting blood cultures, the port should be _____ and then _____ using aseptic technique.
What are deaccessed and reaccessed?