Lab Investigations Details

Septicaemia.


Alternate Name:

Test:

B.cultures (+), U.M/C/S (N or +), wound swabM/C/S (N or +), WCC (AB), ESR (H), S.bicarbon­ate (AB)

Sign:

Dd:

Other causes of shock, plague, meningitis, Ma-laria, cardiac failure

Phys:

2 or 3 blood samples for culture must be taken' be­fore antibiotic therapy is started