Podcast 776: Single-Site Blood Cultures

<p><strong>Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD</strong></p> <p><strong>Educational Pearls:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Traditionally, blood cultures are drawn from two separate sites despite no data to suggest this is better than drawing blood from one site</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Recent study evaluated multi-site versus single-site blood cultures to determine if there was a difference in accuracy or contamination</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Positive yield was 20% in the single-site year and 17% in the multi-site year</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">No difference in contamination between the two groups</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ekwall-Larson A, Yu D, Dinnétz P, Nordqvist H, Özenci V. Single-Site Sampling versus Multisite Sampling for Blood Cultures: a Retrospective Clinical Study. J Clin Microbiol. 2022;60(2):e0193521. doi:10.1128/JCM.01935-21</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summarized by John Spartz, MS4 | Edited by Erik Verzemnieks, MD</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Emergency Medical Minute is excited to announce that we are now offering</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">AMA PRA Category 1 credits™</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">via online course modules. To access these and for more information, visit our website at</span> <a href= "https://emergencymedicalminute.org/cme-courses/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://emergencymedicalminute.org/cme-courses/</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and create an account. </span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=6bIZ91UwjZALMiRLAEcQYYPHyLILwbivQwgtGl3JzaB6oGAQK1B2nrGSGvrS-g7zJApXzVlWIO-lmLfB"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Donate to EMM today!</span></a></p> <