Overview of documents for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance
General procedures
- Culture media preparation for clinical bacteriology
- Procedure and quality control for autoclave sterilization and inactivation cycles
- Overview of the internal quality controls to be performed by the clinical bacteriology laboratory
Request blood culture
- Indications for blood culture sampling
- Indications for blood culture sampling in neonates
- Request form blood culture
Blood culture sampling
- Collection of blood for blood cultures
- Good practices for blood collection
- Preference butterfly needle for closed system blood culture sampling
- Open system blood culture sampling in neonates
- Request form blood culture
Reception and incubation
Work-up of grown blood cultures
- Work-up of grown blood cultures
- Initial identification flowchart
- Smear from blood culture bottle
- Gram stain
- Identification Enterobacterales
- Identification Gram-positive bacteria
- Identification non-fermentative Gram-negative rods
- Identification fastidious bacteria (coming)
- Antibiotic susceptibility testing (+ appendices)
- Laboratory form blood culture
Validation and reporting
Database and analysis
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