And the patient will probably need a transfusion at the end of it.
(Reportedly the printer engaged itself in a loop and printed out blood culture label sets 25 times, so don’t panic).
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Going to take a while to draw all those labs
December 30, 2009 by
Make sure those cultures are all from separate sites!
This happens when the doctor orders Blood cultures but doesn’t tell the computer x 2. Happened to me last week when the admitting doctor ordered them every 15 minutes. Printed out 4 hours worth of labels.
Lesse… you can probably find, at best, four peripheral sites on each limb, leaving nine more samples to be taken from somewhere. I guess you could do two fem sticks, two IJs, bilateral EJs, maybe a breast vein on each side in a large-breasted woman… and maybe the dorsal vein of the penis in a man.
That should certainly give you sufficient samples to diagnose even the most occult endocarditis.
Wow. And one time they took 7 vials from me, I thought that was a lot.
I wonder how many times the patient will be billed?