Blood Culture / Sepsis Guidelines
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- WHO guidelines on drawing blood: best practices in Phlebotomy. World Health Organization 2010.https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241599221
- American Society for Microbiology: Cumitech 1C, Blood Cultures IV. Coordinating ed., EJ Baron. ASM Press Washington, D.C. 2005
- Supplemental reference: Doern GV, et al. A comprehensive update on the problem of blood culture contamination and a discussion of methods for addressing the problem. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2020;33(1):e00009-e00021
- CLSI. Principles and Procedures for Blood Cultures. 2nd ed. CLSI guideline M47. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; 2022. https://clsi.org/standards/products/microbiology/documents/m47/
- Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 12th Edition, 2019. https://clinmicronow.org/doi/book/10.1128/9781683670438.MCM
- European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, European Manual for Clinical Microbiology, 1st Edition, 2012. https://www.escmid.org/escmid_publications/manual_of_microbiology/
- Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021. Evans, L., et al. Crit Care Med. 2021;49(11):e1063 - e1143. https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Fulltext/2021/11000/Surviving_ Sepsis_Campaign__International.21.aspx
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3). Singer M., et al. JAMA. 2016;315(8):801-810. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2492881
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