
TIRBO #32: Approaching bacteremia
Critical Care Scenarios
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The Different Grades of Bacteremia
The presence of bacteria in these cases, what does that mean? Well, understand first of all that it's not going to be a particularly sensitive test. For Bacteremia is caused by localized infections because you're again kind of spilling bacteria into the bloodstream from something local. The time to positivity isSomething that a micro lab could report to you and it's sometimes used for sort of semi-quantitative cultures. But in a very gross sense, how quickly is reported to you is useful.
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