title: [Prevention of contamination of microhemocultures. Value of a new instrument, the hemopipette].
abstract: We have experimented with a new instrument, "hemopipette", known to reduce the incidence of contamination in small samples of capillary blood for haemoculture. Without altering our usual skin asepsis procedure, we carried out 270 microhaemocultures in 240 neonates. Two haemocultures (0.74%) were contaminated, a significantly lower percentage than the 3.6% observed in a first series of 411 microsamples obtained prior to the introduction of "hemopipette". This fall in contamination rate appears to be associated with the use of this instrument which combines a pipette and a lancet and facilitates capillary blood withdrawal.
mesh_terms: D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002196:Capillaries; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018805:Sepsis / Q000097:blood* / Q000382:microbiology
vernacular_title: Prévention des souillures des microhémocultures. Intérêt d'un nouvel instrument, l'hémopipette.