A game-changer for faster blood culture
By bioMérieux
How does a microbiology lab at a large tertiary hospital minimise the time for clinicians to receive blood culture results so they can implement timely, appropriate antibiotic treatment? For Dr Yu-Jiun Chan, director of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital Clinical Microbiology Laboratory in Taiwan, the key to the solution came through bioMérieux’s fully automated blood culture system – and a little outside-the-lab thinking.