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CULTURE AND SENSITIVITY (DEFINITION, INDICATIONS, PREPARATION, RESULTS,…
CULTURE AND SENSITIVITY
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:pen: : Culture and Sensitivity. A culture is a test to find germs (such as bacteria or a fungus) that can cause an infection. A sensitivity test checks to see what kind of medicine, such as an antibiotic, will work best to treat the illness or infection.
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Doctor will get this sample by swabbing the infected area
Blood, Urine, Sputum (Spit)
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Blood, Urine, Sputum (Spit)
:check:The doctor will send the sample to a laboratory (where it may be taken from patient’s blood, urine, sputum, a pus containing wound, inside the cervix)
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:check: The bacteria will form colonies, or large groups of bacteria, that will each be exposed to different antibiotics.
:star: Susceptible
Usually choose an appropriate drug from the report that was listed as “susceptible,” meaning it can fight the bacteria.
:star: Intermediate
Prescribed a drug from the “intermediate” groupIf there are no known drugsavailable in the susceptible group take a higher dosage and for a longer time period.
:star: Resistant
Combination of antibiotics if a bacterium is “resistant” to all of the drugs that are usually used to treat an infection combination of drugs is meant to work together to fight the bacteria.
Perez, Margaret Diana K. BSN 302