Neonatal Heelstick Blood Culture

1 March 1980

journal article
research article
Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics

Vol. 65 (3) , 505-507
https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.65.3.505

Abstract

A new micro-heelstick blood culture technique was evaluated in 40 [human] neonates who were believed to be clinically septic. Heelstick cultures were positive in 11 and peripheral venous cultures were positive in 8. All 8 venous cultures had positive heelstick cultures. Heelstick blood cultures seem at least as sensitive as venous cultures.

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