Which Patients Should Have Blood Cultures Collected?
Bigstock Author: Linda Sanders, MD PGY3 Temple University Hospital Originally Published: Modern Resident April/May 2016 Patients with bacteremia have a mortality between 30 and 50%, thus obtaining culture data on these sick patients is critical.[1] On the other hand, in the immunocompetent, non-septic patient, blood culture data rarely changes management, has a low yield, with […]
