Blood Culture Collection - OSCE Guide | UKMLA | CPSA | PLAB 2

This video provides a demonstration of how to perform blood culture collection in an OSCE station, including anaerobic and aerobic samples.

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Chapters:
- Introduction 00:00
- Gather equipment 00:28
- Preparation 00:44
- Choose vein 01:04
- Prepare site 01:23
- Insert needle 01:35
- Attach bottles 01:42
- Remove needle 02:18
- Complete procedure 02:47

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[alaukwuchidera]

Thank you James, 🙌
some legends don't wear capes 😊...

[nigelgregory]

good video. in our setting we use one sterile wipe for each culture bottle and clean from the centre of the wipe then the four corners of the wipe.

[tjjeromekamu]

Very informative step wise approach. And very fancy equipment :).
In our setting is just syringe and needle(no complaining), just not used to seeing blood cultures being collected this way haha.
Thank you geeky medics 😊👍🏾

[seang]

Dr. Andrew lives here in the USA! He's the best thing we ever exported from the UK.

[simmie]

Unable to see in your demo but I assume your blood system components were sterile before use? I.e. the connection item between butterfly and vacutainer bottles ? Here we use very strict method to ensure aseptic technique, and collect samples from two different sites (so, 4 bottles in total). Guess this will vary according to institutions’ protocol

[jocefjose]

Just want to ask if it's necessary to wipe the top of culture tubes upon uncapping, when it is already sterile upon manufacture?

[abdullahaslam]

The vein selected for punture is median cubital vein, am i right.

[markie]

2:08 those blood culture bottles expired in 2019 i hope this is an old video! but great and informative video tho :)

[Mainly-boy-outdoors]

Thank you for posting this. I assume you're Needle is Sterile?

[Flyingbrrtmachin]

ive seen a few of your videos that are a lot older how long has andrew been a final year swear he was final year 5 years ago

[Cfundodubes]

here we are told gentle shake the bottle after collecting, is it important to do so?

[AhsanKhan-woql]

Geeky, should the torniquet be removed after a flashback or only after the collection is complete? I was taught to remove it right after flashback.

[Dorissa]

Can you collect a blood culture sample from an existing line that was used to give drips?

[mroosie]

In reality it doesn’t occur like this. The site is seldom cleaned
Properly and often we end up culturing skin contaminants