Clean the skin: Reducing blood culture contamination in the emergency department

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether blood culture contamination (BCC) rates could be decreased in the ED by an educational programme. METHODS: Educational intervention focusing on a 1‐min venepuncture cleaning time and providing a larger chlorhexidine alcohol swab. BCC rates were examined retrospectivel...

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Autores principales: McNab, Lincoln, Varndell, Wayne, Vecellio, Elia, Chiew, Angela L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2022
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9828130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36176210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.14092
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Varndell, Wayne
Vecellio, Elia
Chiew, Angela L
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description OBJECTIVE: To determine whether blood culture contamination (BCC) rates could be decreased in the ED by an educational programme. METHODS: Educational intervention focusing on a 1‐min venepuncture cleaning time and providing a larger chlorhexidine alcohol swab. BCC rates were examined retrospectively 12‐month pre‐, and 9‐month post‐intervention. RESULTS: Six thousand nine hundred and fifty‐three blood cultures were collected over the study period. The BCC rate was 2.4% pre‐intervention versus 1.8% post‐intervention, with no significant difference in BCC rates (Z‐score = 1.862, P = 0.063). CONCLUSION: This educational intervention focusing on skin clean time did not significantly decrease BCC rates in a setting of an already low (<3%) BCC rate.
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spelling pubmed-98281302023-01-10 Clean the skin: Reducing blood culture contamination in the emergency department McNab, Lincoln Varndell, Wayne Vecellio, Elia Chiew, Angela L Emerg Med Australas Short Report OBJECTIVE: To determine whether blood culture contamination (BCC) rates could be decreased in the ED by an educational programme. METHODS: Educational intervention focusing on a 1‐min venepuncture cleaning time and providing a larger chlorhexidine alcohol swab. BCC rates were examined retrospectively 12‐month pre‐, and 9‐month post‐intervention. RESULTS: Six thousand nine hundred and fifty‐three blood cultures were collected over the study period. The BCC rate was 2.4% pre‐intervention versus 1.8% post‐intervention, with no significant difference in BCC rates (Z‐score = 1.862, P = 0.063). CONCLUSION: This educational intervention focusing on skin clean time did not significantly decrease BCC rates in a setting of an already low (<3%) BCC rate. Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2022-09-29 2022-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9828130/ /pubmed/36176210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.14092 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Emergency Medicine Australasia published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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