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Wound Culture II - Specimen #1
Test Code78350
CPT Codes
87070<br /> **Hospital Use Only**
Includes
If positive, an identification and sensitivity will be performed at an additional charge.
Please note: Anaerobes will not be cultured routinely from these sites. Order Test Code 465 for Anaerobic Culture.
Please note: Anaerobes will not be cultured routinely from these sites. Order Test Code 465 for Anaerobic Culture.
Preferred Specimen
Abscess or wound specimen submitted on culture transport swab
Other Acceptable Specimens
Intravenous catheter tip submitted in in a sterile, leak-proof container
Instructions
Please specify on the request form the culture site and pertinent history.
Tissue or aspirated fluid is superior to a swab specimen. Aspirate if possible, or pass a swab deep into the lesion and firmly sample the advancing edge of the lesion. Use transport medium for swab. Transport at room temperature to the laboratory. Refrigerated stability is suboptimal. Refer to qualified personnel for determination of acceptability.
Intravenous Catheter Tips: A short distal segment (approximately 2 inches or 5 cm), including the area beneath the skin is aseptically cut off and sent in a sterile container (room temperature or refrigerated) to the Microbiology Laboratory for culture. If possible, collect before antibiotic therapy. Other catheters, such as Foley (urine) catheters are unacceptable. Catheter tips which arrive in saline or transport medium are unacceptable. Skin swabs from catheter site are unacceptable.
Tissue or aspirated fluid is superior to a swab specimen. Aspirate if possible, or pass a swab deep into the lesion and firmly sample the advancing edge of the lesion. Use transport medium for swab. Transport at room temperature to the laboratory. Refrigerated stability is suboptimal. Refer to qualified personnel for determination of acceptability.
Intravenous Catheter Tips: A short distal segment (approximately 2 inches or 5 cm), including the area beneath the skin is aseptically cut off and sent in a sterile container (room temperature or refrigerated) to the Microbiology Laboratory for culture. If possible, collect before antibiotic therapy. Other catheters, such as Foley (urine) catheters are unacceptable. Catheter tips which arrive in saline or transport medium are unacceptable. Skin swabs from catheter site are unacceptable.
Transport Temperature
Refrigerated (cold packs)
Specimen Stability
Abscess/wound
Room temperature: 48 hours
Refrigerated: See instructions
Frozen: Unacceptable
IV Tip
Room temperature: 24 hours
Refrigerated: 24 hours
Frozen: Unacceptable
Room temperature: 48 hours
Refrigerated: See instructions
Frozen: Unacceptable
IV Tip
Room temperature: 24 hours
Refrigerated: 24 hours
Frozen: Unacceptable
Reject Criteria (Eg, hemolysis? Lipemia? Thaw/Other?)
Skin swabs from catheter site
Methodology
Culture
Setup Schedule
Set up: Daily (all shifts); Report available: 4 days
Reference Range
Not applicable
Performing Laboratory
Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute |
14225 Newbrook Drive |
Chantilly, VA 20153 |