Are there references for not using existing central venous catheters as the soul source of blood culture sampling? I know we use them in conjucntion with peripheral cultures when trying to determine if a blood stream infection is CRBSI or not.
Jose
Are there references for not using existing central venous catheters as the soul source of blood culture sampling? I know we use them in conjucntion with peripheral cultures when trying to determine if a blood stream infection is CRBSI or not.
Jose
The answer is yes and no
If you are reporting the surveillance definition of CLA-BSI which is central line associated bloodstream infection you do not draw from the central line of any kind and do two PIV cultures of the bloodstream. This is a surveillance definition.
If you are looking to see if the catheter is implicated such as in CR-BSI for treatment purposes. One would do a culture from the catheter and possibly a PIV depending on the laboratory methodolgy utillzed.
the answer than is yes or no depending on what you were trying to accomplish
Marcia Ryder has a very nice on line article on the differences as well as the IDSA (Infectious Disease Society of America)
Hope that helps
Kathy Kokotis