Jawaheer G, Neal T J, Shaw N J
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool.
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 1997 Jan;76(1):F57-8. doi: 10.1136/fn.76.1.f57.
A prospective, blind study was carried out to determine: the amount of blood submitted for culture from neonates; whether small blood volumes resulted in false negative results; and whether there was a temporal relation between volume of blood cultured and time to positivity. Seventy three bottles were evaluated. They contained a median of 0.63 ml of blood. Twenty nine bottles (39.7%) contained less than 0.5 ml of blood; 21 bottles (28.8%) were positive. There were three false negative cultures, only one of which contained a blood volume below 0.5 ml. The median time to positivity was 22.4 hours. There was no correlation between blood volume cultured and time to positivity. Neonatal cultures frequently contain less than 0.5 ml of blood. False negative cultures are rare. Neonatal blood culture bottles need to be validated for blood volumes below 0.5 ml.
开展了一项前瞻性盲法研究,以确定:新生儿用于培养的血量;少量血液是否会导致假阴性结果;以及培养的血量与阳性出现时间之间是否存在时间关系。评估了73个培养瓶。它们所含血液的中位数为0.63毫升。29个培养瓶(39.7%)所含血液少于0.5毫升;21个培养瓶(28.8%)呈阳性。有3例假阴性培养结果,其中只有1个培养瓶中的血量低于0.5毫升。阳性出现的中位时间为22.4小时。培养的血量与阳性出现时间之间无相关性。新生儿培养瓶中经常含有少于0.5毫升的血液。假阴性培养结果很少见。需要对血量低于0.5毫升的新生儿血培养瓶进行验证。