About Your Urgent Care Center

33. I have a question. Do you routinely send out for wound or urine culture and sensitivity?

Our physicians are free to order a C&S whenever he or she thinks it is appropriate.  
Wounds: In the past, we cultured wounds and abscesses fairly rarely.  With the rise of community acquired MRSA, we are culturing most wounds. Urine: When we see an uncomplicated UTI, we rarely culture the urine.  We do culture recurrent UTIs or in cases with complicating factors, such as recent hospitalization, pyelo, etc.

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