Kentucky Sepsis Consortium Webinar: Decreasing Blood Culture Contamination
- Presentation slides
- Blood Culture Metrics (Levi Petrey) presentation and recording
The Kentucky Sepsis Consortium January webinar consisted of an open discussion of blood culture contamination rate improvement efforts. Deb Campbell provided the following prompts to promote the sharing of best practices, successes and barriers.
- Rate improvements/failures/successes/barriers
- Model for blood draws- phlebotomists only, nurses only, some combination
- Diversion devices
- Other interventions
- Specimen Volume efforts
- Anything else you think is germane to the topic of BC contamination
Many hospitals provided valuable contributions. During and after the call, there were requests for the past webinar where Levi Petrey from Baptist Health Corbin was our presenter. The recording has been shared and the slides are attached.
Please make sure your lab director has provided his/her name and email address to Deb to populate a new lab director contact list.
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