If you want an accurate reading from sepsis patients' blood cultures, don't start antibiotics until you've drawn the blood samples, a new study suggested. Among patients with severe sepsis, blood ...

Primary care providers are the frontline in the prompt identification of potential blood culture-negative endocarditis cases. The Duke criteria is a popular tool to aid in diagnosis of endocarditis.

There is a “critical shortage” of certain vials used to collect samples for blood cultures, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned health care providers on Tuesday.These tests help ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with severe manifestations of sepsis, the sensitivity of blood cultures decreased after ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Hospitals in the Philadelphia region are dealing with the fallout from a shortage of ...