Guía de práctica clínica para la toma de hemocultivos

Some factors that affect the performance of blood cultures are skin aseptic technique, blood volume, number of samples, and incubation time. However, blood culture collection is a simple technique; contaminated blood cultures can derive in erroneous diagnosis and treatment, which may increase the patients’ morbimortality. To establish and standardize the procedures and technical resources that allow for generating optimal samples for blood cultures, a multidisciplinary group of experts developed Guía de práctica clínica para la toma de muestra de hemocultivos (Clinical Practice Guide for Blood Culture Sample Collection). This guideline includes recommendations for taking blood samples for blood cultures and blood samples for blood cultures by intravascular devices.