Wenckebach usually does not need treatment

An intravenous catheter is removed from an 83-year-old male hospitalized with cancer and sent to the laboratory for culture. The tip is rolled across the surface of a sheep blood agar

At 24 hours incubation, 20 colonies of white, gamma-hemolytic, gram-positive cocci are isolated. The organism proved to be catalase positive and tube coagulase negative. This organism A) is a skin contaminant. B) is considered a critical value and should be reported STAT. C) indicates a catheter-related infection. D) cannot be assessed without the results of a blood culture drawn at the same time.

Private water valves are of the indicating type, for example, a ____ indicator valve (PIV).

A. post B. private C. pressure D. public