Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and ...

10. If a venous access subcutaneous port is removed for suspected CRBSI, send the port to the microbiology laboratory for qualitative culture of the port reservoir contents, in addition to the catheter tip (B-II). Diagnosis: Blood Cultures 11. Obtain samples for blood culture prior to the initiation of antibiotic therapy (figure 1) (A-I). 12. ................
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