Update Review to Reduce Blood Culture Contamination

Abstract

T HE incidence and mortality rate of sepsis is increasing worldwide. Rapid and accurate detection of bacteremia and fungemia is essential to improve the patient's condition. Health care providers, nurses, and possibly many laboratory staff are usually not well trained in proper blood culture techniques.The present guideline addresses the clinical importance of blood culture, its applications, and the correct technique for detecting pathogenic microorganisms that cause sepsis, and attempts to explain the place of blood culture in the management of sepsis and the appropriate method for obtaining a blood sample for culture. Describe false positives to reduce.Detection of bacteremia or fungi by blood culture is very important and vital in the management of patients with infection and can lead to the selection of appropriate antibiotics. Blood cultures (BCs) are important routine tests that are conducted in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Unfortunately, the common rate of BCs contamination is high which led to many clinical and economic consequences. The phlebotomy teams of blood sampling are very important to effectively reduce BCs contamination rate. Therefore, we conducted the current study to update our knowledge about the phlebotomy performances.