karlikn

karlikn has 14 years experience and specializes in home care.

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1. How to draw blood cultures from a PICC line.

   karlikn replied to mibbycat's topic in Infusion

   you still have to draw and to discard blood first even if you don't flush the line with normal saline. Line is already filled with either normal saline, or heparin, or ethanol, so you need to remove it before drawing blood for culture, plus to remo...