#Blood Cultures

[wefindourselves]

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[mcatmemoranda]

Blood cultures should be drawn from two different sites. You need four bottles (2 aerobic and 2 anaerobic--1 anaerobic and 1 aerobic for each site).

If the cultures are positive for bacteria, but only at 1 site, it's likelier a contaminant than actual bacteremia. So for example, getting gram positive cocci in only 1 site is a contaminant (staph or strep that was on the skin or something). But if you were to get gram positive cocci in both sites, then it's not a contaminant and you would assume the pt actually has bacteremia.

My attending was explaining that some lab techs don't know this. So if you ask them if both sites are positive (meaning that the blood drawn from both left and right arm [doesn't matter whether it's in the anaerobic or aerobic container] are positive), they might think you're asking if just the aerobic or anaerobic bottle drawn from 1 site is positive. But it's not about whether the aerobic or anaerobic bottle is positive, it's whether both sites that blood was drawn from was positive. No one ever explained this so I didn't realize that either.

[wurm-food]

songs of the day 💕 sponsored by grooving in my kitchen

[itsmaddiebee]

dunk on me (mv) by blood cultures

[danielpowell]

" LUNO serves as a sort of talisman of the moon with the aid of works from philosophers Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. Each month the moon undergoes eight phases of change from darkness into light and back to darkness, and much like the moon, the eight tracks on LUNO pay homage to the process. "

From Impose Magazine

[wefindourselves]

I MEAN IT Blood Cultures GOOD

[mysongdaily]

And I do mean all

[humanculi]

"Set it on Fire" by Blood Cultures.

take all of my dreams take off both your wings and set them on fire you set them on fire take all of my things all of my beliefs and set them on fire you set them on fire

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

[sleepysheepd]

Why can’t I keep this habit?

[wurm-food]

sotd 😌