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ArticleEmergency medicine Australasia : EMA2022

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

Lincoln McNab, Wayne Varndell, Elia Vecellio, Angela L Chiew

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Article in Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Lincoln McNabPrince of Wales Clinical School, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Wayne VarndellDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4752-9679
Elia VecellioNSW Health Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Angela L ChiewDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0079-5056

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo determine whether blood culture contamination (BCC) rates could be decreased in the ED by an educational programme.

methodsEducational 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.

resultsSix 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).

conclusionThis 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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Blood CultureBlood Specimen CollectionChlorhexidineEmergency Service, HospitalHumansRetrospective StudiesChlorhexidineblood culturecontaminationeducationsepsis

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PMCPMC9828130

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