Kurin Lock®blood culture collection sets passively sideline the initial 0.15ml of blood, which may contain contaminants from the patient’s own skin, ensuring that the best possible blood specimen reaches the collection bottles. Studies show compliance with best practice combined with Kurin technology...
Noskin GA, Suriano T, Collins S, Sesler S, Peterson LR. Paenibacillus macerans pseudobacteremia resulting from contaminated blood culture bottles in a neonatal intensive care unit. Am J Infect Control 2001;29(2): 126-129.Noskin GA, Suriano T, Collins S, Sesler S, Peterson LR. Paeni...
Blood Specimen CollectionNeedlesCost ControlEquipment ContaminationTo determine how switching to a sterile needle after phlebotomy and before the inoculation of blood culture bottles affects the rate of skin flora contamination.A randomized trial.Medical inpatient services and the emergency department of a ...
Compatible with the BD Vacutainer® blood collection needles, blood collection sets, and tubes and the BD BACTEC™ Blood Culture Bottles.21 Learn more BD Vacutainer® Stretch Latex Free Tourniquet Ideal for practitioners and facilities that want to eliminate latex from the heal...
The Cardinal Health™ luer lock blood collection adapter eliminates the need for a needle when collecting blood from valve-based I.V. ports. Safety tube holder with internal needle for use with blood collection tubes and long-neck blood culture bottles Compatible...
and isolates the initial 1.5-2.0 mL of blood, the portion known to contain contaminants. The device then opens an independent, second sterile blood flow path to the culture bottles. The technology has been clinically proven to virtually eliminate blood culture contamination that can lead...
Bottles are either placed in a ward-based incubator or transferred immediately to the microbiology laboratory for processing, depending on the time of collection. A count of blood culture bottles provided by the lab is kept and compared to blood culture bottles received back from the wards along ...
Delayed entry of blood culture bottles is frequent in consolidated laboratories. A retrospective study evaluated time from insertion to detection and total detection time as a function of preincubation time, and we prospectively looked for false negative
A co-injection process is provided for fabricating improved multi-layer containers, including but not limited to blood collection tubes, evacuated blood collection tubes, culture bottles, centrifuges tubes, and syringe barrels. The container includes a tube ( 10 ) having a bottom wall ( 12 ) ...
The blood culture bottles or transport growth media tubes must be delivered promptly to the microbiology laboratory. See Table 8-3 for a summary of blood collection tubes. Many other types of blood collection tubes are available for an array of special tests. The PA is advised to consult the...