A survey of 75 biomedical articles dealing with stress-dependent blood parameters in caged primates revealed that the conditions under which blood collection occurred were in most cased described ...

Treatment of the material used to draw the blood sample What procedures will be used to dispose of the instruments used to collect the blood sample? If the instruments used for the analysis of the ...

Researchers report that implementing a checklist-style set of procedures appears to cut almost in half the number of potentially unnecessary blood culture draws in critically ill children without ...

Steripath ® Initial Specimen Diversion Device ®, a clinically proven solution, enables hospitals to meet the new goal of 1% blood culture contamination as published in CLSI's M47 Principles and ...

Recently published University of Arkansas study examined the patient-specific risk factors and clinical outcomes associated with contaminated blood cultures for patients with suspected bloodstream ...

The accurate detection of bloodstream infections is central to effective patient management, yet false‐positive results from blood culture contamination continue to impose significant clinical and ...

The FDA sent a letter to healthcare providers July 10 regarding the shortage, and the CDC released updated conservation strategies in a July 22 statement. The FDA estimates the shortage will continue ...