Rapid implementation of blood culture stewardship: institutional response to an acute national blood culture bottle shortage

Romney M Humphries; Patty W Wright; Ritu Banerjee; Daniel E Dulek; John C Champion; David C Gaston; Thomas R Talbot

doi:10.1093/cid/ciae402

Rapid implementation of blood culture stewardship: institutional response to an acute national blood culture bottle shortage

Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Aug 13:ciae402. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae402. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Romney M Humphries¹, Patty W Wright², Ritu Banerjee³, Daniel E Dulek³, John C Champion⁴, David C Gaston^{1

2}, Thomas R Talbot²

Affiliations

¹ Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN.
³ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, , Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN.

PMID: 39136555
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciae402

Abstract

We describe our approach to addressing a nation-wide supply issue for blood culture bottles. Aerobic blood culture bottles received from our distributor July 1-15, 2024 was <1% of typical usage. Through education and ordering restrictions blood culture designed to minimize risk, orders were reduced by 49% over a one-week period.