A 78-year-old female is hospitalized with complications due to hip replacement surgery. She is receiving intravenous antibiotics and oxygen via a nasal cannula as well as having a urinary catheter in place
At four days of hospitalization, she develops fever after showing signs of improvement. The physician suspects bacteremia. To prove his suspicion, he orders a culture of her
A) intravenous catheter tip.
B) skin surface at the site of the intravenous catheter insertion.
C) blood.
D) A and B.
E) A and C.
E
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