Precision in practice: Optimizing blood culture collection volumes using ultra-thin wall cannula devices and performance monitoring to drive quality assurance

Description

Consistently achieving optimal blood culture volumes is essential for accurate diagnostics, yet laboratories often struggle with variability caused by multiple collection sites, diverse staff practices, and time constraints. These challenges can lead to underfilled bottles and compromise patient care.

In this webinar, Grant Johnson will share how Lakeridge Health addressed these obstacles through a combined approach of innovative device design and data-driven performance monitoring. This discussion will focus on the role of design innovations in reducing variability in blood culture collection and the impact of real-time analytics on performance oversight. By combining these strategies, Lakeridge Health was able to identify gaps, implement corrective actions, and sustain compliance, ultimately driving improvements in diagnostic reliability and patient outcomes.

Target audience

This activity is designed for physicians, lab supervisors, lab directors (and/or assistant directors), lab managers (supervisory and/or non-supervisory), medical technologists, pathologists, in-training individuals, and other laboratory professionals overseeing/conducting within this topic.

Learning objectives

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain how mechanical design improvements can improve blood culture collection yield and improve positivity rates.
• Describe real-time collection data is monitored at the organization, site and individual collector level to monitor blood volume collection in a multi-site organization.
• Leverage positive reinforcement tools at the collector level to drive sustainable quality improvement.

Faculty

Grant Johnson, BSc, MLT, ART
Clinical Director, Laboratory Medicine and Infection Prevention and Control
Lakeridge Health
Oshawa, CA

Disclosures and statement of independence

The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) is dedicated to ensuring balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all educational activities. All participating planning committee members and faculty are required to disclose to the program audience any financial relationships related to the subject matter of this program. Disclosure information is reviewed in advance in order to manage and resolve any possible conflicts of interest. The intent of this disclosure is to provide participants with information on which they can make their own judgments.

The following faculty reported financial relationships:

• Grant Johnson, BSc, MLT, ART
  • Honorarium: BD

Content validity

All recommendations involving clinical medicine are based on evidence accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients; AND/OR all scientific research referred to or reported in support or justification of a patient care recommendation conforms to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis.

Accreditation statement

This activity is submitted for 1.0 ACCENT® continuing education credits.

Successful completion statement

Verification of Participation certificates are provided to registered participants based on completion of the activity, in its entirety, and the activity evaluation. For questions regarding continuing education, please email [email protected].