Rethinking Best Practice in Blood Culture Collection: Is single site sampling the answer?
27 March 2025, Thursday
3:00PM GMT+8
Virtual Session
Join us on Thursday, 27 March 2025.
Welcome to our first session of Equation of Care Webinar Series, focusing on ensuring precision in blood culture collection for sepsis management.
In this 1-hour webinar, join Professor Özenci from Karolinska institute as he breaks down the science behind blood culture sampling strategies. He will explore why shifting from a Single-Sampling Strategy to a Multi-Sampling Strategy in Blood Cultures could optimize workflow efficiency, improve clinical outcomes, guideline compliance, and most importantly... change the equation of care.
Topics Covered
- Blood culture collection guidelines: the role of blood volume, sampling sites, skin antisepsis and time to incubation in blood culture detection rates
- Rationale behind single-site sampling versus multi-site sampling
The clinical evidence driving guideline updates - How the single-site sampling strategy impacted diagnostic performance at Karolinska Institute
- Impact of this strategy on clinical workflows, laboratory procedures, and patient care
Agenda
3:00PM - 3:05PM
Opening Address
by Dr. Pearline Teo
3:05PM - 3:50PM
Rethinking Best Practice in Blood Culture Collection:
Is single site sampling
the answer?
3:50PM - 4:00PM
Q&A Session
Speakers
Dr. Pearline Teo, Ph.D.
Dr. Teo received her training in Biology and Immunology from Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University. Since then, she has had more than 10 years of basic, applied and clinical R&D experience in academia and industry, working with various types of products in the medical device and IVD space.
Professor Volkan Özenci, M.D., Ph.D.
Profession Özenci is currently the President of Nordic Society for Medical Mycology, Professor and senior consultant in Clinical Microbiology at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. His research focus is to improve clinical microbiological diagnostics. He has developed several methods including a fast technique for the analysis of bacteria in blood poisoning (sepsis) that cuts the time from 24 hours to 2-4 hours.
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