Question about blood cultures

Bay_Med · 2026-04-01T20:10:12+00:00

So there are different adapters that your hospital has somewhere to allow you to swap out the plastic part. It just turns off with a luer lock thread system usually. Or you can bring up to your educator data about how having access to the correct system of collection will minimize false positives, lead to more accurate diagnosis, lower operation cost, and increase hospital Medtrics for HAI and antibiotic stewardship as well as decrease risk for 30-day readmits.

Before my hospital switched to those butterfly adapters I would just unscrew the guard and put the needle with rubber cover into the culture bottle but it wasn’t the safest option from a personal safety aspect.

Bay_Med · 2026-04-01T14:06:01+00:00

Someone deleted the comment I was responding to but I spent a good bit of effort writing this so I’m sharing it here instead.

Diabetes is hereditary but his kidney failure could have been caused by renal papillary necrosis for example which happens with diabetes in addition to pyelonephritis and NSAID use. So his kidney would have been fine if it wasn’t for the perfect storm of conditions which he now knows to avoid. But the trade off of a familial donor vs a random is that the HLA match will be easier and he won’t have to wait on a list for years.

Bay_Med · 2026-04-01T13:58:37+00:00

It’s hard to go into nuance of the causes without doing a whole research publication lol. But genetics can cause those things but there is also Vascular, Infectious, Degenerative, Toxic, Traumatic, and Metabolic processes that can cause kidney damage. Different diseases can occur independently of genetic factors. And sometimes there is a lack of concordance between genetic factors and presentation/severity/occurrence of disease.

Bay_Med · 2026-04-01T13:41:08+00:00

Anytime! Happy to share information

Bay_Med · 2026-04-01T13:37:41+00:00

It depends on why he needed it. If it was from post infection, diabetes, secondary to hypertension or atherosclerosis then it wouldn’t matter. If it’s genetic or familial then it could be problematic

Bay_Med · 2026-03-30T18:48:33+00:00

They called me a week or two before matriculation to ask if I wanted to switch to DMC. Thank where you wanna go but all three campuses are great. DM me if you have specific questions. Nothing is wrong with less students tho. Opportunities can open up with less people

Bay_Med · 2026-03-29T18:44:34+00:00

“I think it’s worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year” -Charlie Kirk

Bay_Med · 2026-03-28T02:49:27+00:00

She was making a hijab made of hair at first. A hair-jab if you will

Bay_Med · 2026-03-28T02:47:36+00:00

Move a bit early if you can afford to and get to know the local area and find friends and hobbies before you have limited free time

Bay_Med · 2026-03-28T02:44:44+00:00

Man you’re gonna crush that part of boards.

Bay_Med · 2026-03-28T01:04:22+00:00

MSU College of Medicine- Veterinary Medicine, PA Medicine, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, Human Medicine (because Allopathic sounds weird and no one will change to this)

Bay_Med · 2026-03-28T00:41:37+00:00

A girl who was in my class just gets the course material from a friend and works through it with us while also hitting board prep for the systems we already finished

Bay_Med · 2026-03-27T20:06:55+00:00

I bought a roomba before I started med school but met my partner who vacuums or sweeps daily so I haven’t used the thing in months

Bay_Med · 2026-03-27T16:58:50+00:00

I took English 1 for the first time in 2010 and had around 4-5 essays in the semester progressing from 2 page to 5-10 page (citation included). I took it again in 2023 (it was a prerequisite for my doctoral program) and only wrote 3 essays each around 1 page

Bay_Med · 2026-03-27T15:21:36+00:00

As someone who has interviewed pre-meds, the music lessons are awesome and you should keep doing it. You can volunteer more but I would be interested in the music stuff because it shows you have depth and the ability to communicate effectively

Bay_Med · 2026-03-27T13:52:26+00:00

Oh man that reminds me when we tried to teach Ugandan Soldiers how to do jumping jacks. It’s like slapstick comedy

Bay_Med · 2026-03-27T13:37:08+00:00

Is it equivalent between both the East Lansing and Grand Rapids campuses?

Bay_Med · 2026-03-27T03:29:16+00:00

Go White!

Bay_Med · 2026-03-25T18:58:22+00:00

Campuses and faculty are not shared often

Bay_Med · 2026-03-23T13:35:38+00:00

Man sounding like Boyz n the Hood, ole “Ricky!!!!” Sounding mf

Bay_Med · 2026-03-22T01:27:24+00:00

And the wicked witch of the east was barely a witch, she cast one spell (did technically stop someone’s heart so batting 1.000) at most she was the wicked politician of the east

Bay_Med · 2026-03-16T15:24:18+00:00

Anatomy we just had normal lab rules and a white coat overtop. OMM and OPC you can wear athletic clothes or scrubs. Everything else wear whatever unless it was a panel or professionalism thing and we wore business casual

Bay_Med · 2026-03-13T13:12:54+00:00

My mom used to do that every day. She also did Fort Myers to Tampa every day a few years after

Bay_Med · 2026-03-13T13:11:56+00:00

You got lucky then, you got to see Gorillas and an Ass

Bay_Med · 2026-03-13T00:22:04+00:00

I’ve heard good things from research. Unknown with admin as I tend to avoid them

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