The Ron Grimley Undergraduate Centre have produced a series of high quality intravenous skills videos which have been made available to view. ‘Taking Blood Cultures’ is one of more than 25 films that have been produced as part of a wider series entitled ‘Tomorrow’s Clinicians’.

It is vital that healthcare personnel must be able to view ‘septic fomites’ with their mental eye just as clearly as they use their true vision. In todays lexicon of asepsis the 'septic fomites' would be described as ‘contaminated key parts’.

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Lewis (2009) also describes the need to implement an “aseptic conscience”, which is further described as the “awareness of sterile and non sterile items” and “the ability to take corrective action should contamination occur”.

As early as the first half of the 1970’s Maki et al suggested that the “manipulation of virtually every component of the intravenous delivery system may result in contamination of the system” (Maki, Goldmann, and Rhame 1973).

Once you are familiar with how harmful organisms infect the patient it is a simple process to identify the points at which entry may take place and the precise areas of a component that may facilitated contamination.

"There are many causes of infection in healthcare, but during aseptic technique there is ultimately one cause or decisive failure; the contamination of key-parts and key-sites" Rowley et al (2010).

Blood culture associated false positives will result in an additional financial burden. Gander et al (2009) found that false-positive episodes extended patient hospital stays by one day and resulted in an additional cost of $8,720.