{"id":4423,"date":"2023-05-15T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2023-06-21T12:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T16:53:30","slug":"quiz-blood-culture-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/2023\/05\/quiz-blood-culture-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: Blood Culture Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

How well can you identify blood culturing best practices? Take the three-question quiz.<\/h2>\n
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1. The preferred method for obtaining blood cultures is by<\/span><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

a. peripheral venipuncture<\/p>\n

b. peripheral intravenous catheter (PIV) or<\/span>
arterial catheter<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

c. central venous catheter<\/p>\n

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2. All adult blood cultures require a total of ____ bottles filled to ____ ml volume.<\/strong><\/p>\n

a. two bottles, 5-6 ml volume<\/p>\n

b. four bottles, 8-10 ml volume<\/p>\n

c. six bottles, volume is variable based on patient.<\/p>\n

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3. When obtaining cultures from a patient with a central line, best practice is to (choose all that apply): <\/strong><\/p>\n

a. Refer to the blood culture guideline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

b. Ensure there is a medical reason to salva<\/span>ge the central line. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

c. Obtain cultures<\/span> from multiple ports of a multi<\/span>–<\/span>lumen central venous catheter<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

How did you do? Check your answers below.<\/h3>\n

Below is a summary of the key points<\/a>. The full blood culture guideline<\/a> includes additional information on how to obtain needed blood cultures with patients who have a central line.The answers to the above are: 1 a, 2b, 3 a and b only.<\/p>\n

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How well can you identify blood culturing best practices? Take the three-question quiz. 1. The preferred method for obtaining blood cultures is by: a. peripheral venipuncture b. peripheral intravenous catheter (PIV) orarterial catheter c. central venous catheter   2. All adult blood cultures require a total of ____ bottles filled to ____ ml volume. a. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103756,"featured_media":4429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-25-at-14-59-22-2023-Blood-Cultures-Blood-Cultures-flyer-1.pdf.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-25-at-14-59-22-2023-Blood-Cultures-Blood-Cultures-flyer-1.pdf-300x225.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-25-at-14-59-22-2023-Blood-Cultures-Blood-Cultures-flyer-1.pdf.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-25-at-14-59-22-2023-Blood-Cultures-Blood-Cultures-flyer-1.pdf.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-25-at-14-59-22-2023-Blood-Cultures-Blood-Cultures-flyer-1.pdf-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"red blood cells under microscope","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}