All positive blood cultures are forwarded to HEIC for review.
Bacteremia is an infection of the blood stream that can progress to a life threatening sepsis.
Because it may originate from a range of initial conditions, diagnosis of bacteremia may be complicated. The inability to reduce sepsis mortality may be due to increases in the underlying health risks of the patient population. Patients must be culture positive and symptomatic to be considered bacteremic. Patients must be culture positive and symptomatic to be considered bacteremic. Primary bacteremia Confirmed bloodstream infection without positive cultures from another site.