DANVILLE, PA. – Geisinger Medical Center's microbiology lab is the first in the U.S. to use a new automatic instrument that improves the quality and efficiency of specimen planting and streaking and ...

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Diagnostics, particularly blood cultures, play a key role in sepsis diagnosis. Best practices are well-known for collection, transport, and processing of blood cultures, but historically relatively ...

Blood samples are accepted from 7 am Monday through 11 am Friday. For pediatric patients, draw requirements are as follows. They are the minimum sample volumes required. These are guidelines for ...

In a hallway on the third floor of Lancaster General Hospital is a window marked “Laboratory Specimen Receiving.” Tucked away behind it is one of the most important facilities in Lancaster County ...