#115 – Silver Lining of Shortages: Blood Culture Best Practices

Dr. Jeannette Bouchard is joined by experts Dr. Romney Humphries, Emily Fox, and Matt Miller to discuss the hot topic of blood culture stewardship and the details of how these experts persevered through the recent blood culture bottle shortage that caused chaos throughout health care institutions at the end of 2024! This medical education was provided by an education grant from bioMerieux.

References:

1. Fabre BCx Stewardship Article doi: 10.1128/JCM.01005-21
2. ED Bcx Stewardship doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2024.04.198
3. CT Surgery Stewardship doi: 10.1093/icvts/ivaf005
4. Every Crisis is an Opportunity doi:  10.1093/ofid/ofae479
5. Fun IV Coconut Water from I Feel Nerdy section: https://dr-martins.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2000_the-intravenous-use-of-coconut-water.pdf

Guests

Romney Humphries, PhD D(ABMM)

Romney Humphries is a clinical microbiologist and the director of Laboratory Medicine at VUMC, in Nashville TN. She is the upcoming editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and an Editor for Clinical Infectious Diseases. She is a member of the IDSA Professional Practice and Advocacy Committee, and an advisor to CLSI’s AST Subcommittee.

Emily Fox, PharmD, BCIDP

Emily Fox is a clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship at Providence Health & Services in Portland, OR. She is the residency program coordinator for the PGY-2 infectious diseases pharmacy residency program and co-lead of the regional antimicrobial stewardship program.

Matt Miller, PharmD, BCIDP

Matt Miller is a pediatric clinical pharmacy specialist in ID and antimicrobial stewardship at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, CO. He is co-lead for the antimicrobial stewardship program and stewardship liaison with the microbiology laboratory.