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Best Practice in Blood Culture Collection

This essential resource for nurses and phlebotomists explains the importance of blood culture testing and its current shortcomings associated with culture contamination.

The video walks the viewer through the established best practice for blood culture collection and identifies the common points of contamination.

Lastly, the viewer is introduced to flash technology, sometimes referred to as initial specimen diversion, which sidelines the first flash of blood and skin contaminants therein.