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SUPPLEMENT/CONTINUATION
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FL0520300/Clearwater Police Department
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Report No.
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95-29158
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Offense
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Death Investigation
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Date of Report 3/6/97
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Klimaszewski: Sure.
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Det. Carrasquillo:
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Is it common?
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Klimaszewski:
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It’s not rare. I wouldn’t say it happens often but it isn’t rare,
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Det. Carrasquillo:
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What about a staph infection? Is that common? In.. .in your
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experience of course.
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Klimaszewski:
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I see staph infections. Working in the Emergency Room,
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we’ll do blood cultures for things like that. And we don’t have any followup to find out exactly what happened. I... I really don’t know. I mean we see staph and wound
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Det. Carrasquillo:
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And in this particular case, you don’t recall who did the
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blood draw? Or was blood drawn?
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Klimaszewski:
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Oh yes. It was either,. .umm.
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.for the culture I know it was
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either Roxanne or I.
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Det. Carrasquillo:
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And that was at the direction of Dr
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Det. Carrasquillo:
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And.,, and it came right from the patient. And what did you
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do with the blood? If...if you would’ve...
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Det. Carrasquillo:
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If you would’ve drawn it, what would have been the normal
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procedure?
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Klimaszewski:
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Well, after you draw it, you just place it on the counter and
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then it’ll get labeled. At that time, I’m not sure exactly.
We’ve changed our procedures for labels. I think at that
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time.. .yeah, I’m sure we used to just do it ourselves and
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label the blood and send it to the lab.
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