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Blood Culture Medical Education Library

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bioMérieux’s Blood Culture Medical Education Library is designed to provide healthcare professionals with comprehensive knowledge about the tools and techniques essential for effective blood culture collection. In this selection, you will access step-by-step guides on the collection process, tips for avoiding contamination, and strategies for ensuring accurate results. 

Blood culture booklet

Educational booklet

Blood Culture: A key investigation for diagnosis of bloodstream infections

This booklet aims to answer key questions commonly asked in relation to blood culture, provide practical recommendations for routine blood culture procedures, and offer an illustrated step-by-step guide to blood culture collection best practices.

Preparation steps for collecting blood culture specimens

Best practices video

Preparation steps for collecting blood culture specimens

Discover an animated video that illustrates the preparation steps for collecting blood culture specimens with a winged set and with a needle and syringe.

(Other languages available: 

Spanish French - German - Italian - Portuguese)

Blood culture bottle sampling protocol poster with winged device in english

Printable poster

WINGED SET

This printable poster illustrates the preparation steps for collecting blood culture specimens with a winged set.

(Other languages available: French - Spanish - Portuguese)

Blood culture needle & syringe sampling protocol poster in english

Printable poster

NEEDLE & SYRINGE

This printable poster illustrates the preparation steps for collecting blood culture specimens with a needle and syringe.

(Other languages available: French - Spanish - Portuguese)

Pediatric Blood culture collection protocol poster in English

Printable poster

Pedriatric Blood Culture Collection

The document outlines key steps for pediatric blood culture collection, emphasizing when to collect samples and blood volume for cultures according to patient weight and age.

The scientific content in the above materials has been developed independently by the speaker(s)/author(s). The views presented in these materials are the authors’ personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint, strategy or opinions of bioMérieux.

The content on this website and associated materials do not constitute medical advice and should not be considered a substitute for the individual professional judgement of any physician or other health care practitioner regarding the appropriate course of action for a particular patient. All recommendations should be independently reviewed with appropriate medical staff in light of the needs of any particular institution and its patients. bioMérieux makes no guarantee or representation regarding the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of this information for any particular purpose, including but not limited to any cost savings.

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