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

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