blood cultures

Hi all,

Our lab is bursting with blood cultures ( over capacity of our machines actually)!!

Please remember to cancel blood cultures if you don’t need them!
Our sepsis panel is generating alot of cultures (ordered by nursing and MD’s)….!

Just a heads up as they are doing their best to keep up but with considerable expense and extra time by lab staff.

The blood culture main machine is not very old and was bought with a “200 percent capacity” to what was thought to be needed to have a buffer and we are still over that.

just a heads up.

thanks
John