The best solution is to prevent healthcare-associated infections before they can take their toll. However, since not all healthcare-associated infections are preventable, and many patients are admitted into hospitals with infections already manifesting, faster diagnosis and earlier appropriate treatment are essential to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
Preventing the spread of drug-resistant bacteria is essential to any infection prevention and control program. Active surveillance testing for MRSA and VRE colonization is a proven, essential intervention strategy for preventing MDRO-associated HAIs, and is recommended by CDC, SHEA, APIC and IHI.*
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BD GeneOhm™ MRSA Assay
With results in just 2 hours, versus the 24-72 hours required for traditional microbiology cultures, patients carrying MRSA can now be identified upon admission and immediately put into isolation, managed with CDC-recommended contact precautions and treated accordingly – to prevent subsequent MRSA infections to themselves or others.*
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BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSA
BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSA is a selective and differential medium for the qualitative direct detection of nasal colonization by MRSA, providing results in 24 to 48 hours.
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BD BBL™ CultureSwab™ Devices
BD BBL™ CultureSwab™ devices are sterile ready-to-use systems intended for the collection, transport and preservation of clinical specimens for bacteriological examination.
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Innovative, single-use specimen collection systems designed to help reduce pathogen exposure.
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BD Vacutainer® Push Button Blood Collection Sets
The BD Vacutainer® Push Button Blood Collection Set offers split-second protection for that single moment that could potentially change your life. The push-button safety mechanism instantly helps protect you against needlestick injury. It is also offered with a pre-attached holder for added convenience and OSHA single-use holder compliance.
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BD Vacutainer® Eclipse™ Blood Collection Needles
BD Vacutainer® Eclipse™ Blood Collection Needles offer a simple, effective way to collect blood and help reduce the possibility of accidental needlesticks with one-handed activation technique. Also offered with pre-attached holders for added convenience and OSHA single-use holder compliance.
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BD Vacutainer® Stretch Latex-Free Tourniquet
The BD Vacutainer® Stretch Latex-Free Tourniquet is ideal for practitioners and facilities that want to eliminate latex from their healthcare products. This latex-free tourniquet will not cause a latex-induced allergic reaction in latex-sensitive patients or employees. Convenient packaging allows for easy, one-at-a-time dispensing of tourniquets - encouraging a single-use policy that helps reduce the danger of cross-contamination between patients and healthcare workers.
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Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) are a major concern, as the reported 80,000 CRBSIs annually in the U.S. have an estimated mortality rate of 12–25 percent. BD has a long-standing leadership role in intravenous (IV) therapy and closed IV access systems designed to help prevent bloodstream infections.
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BD Nexiva™ Closed IV Catheter System
The BD Nexiva™ Closed IV Catheter System is designed to lower the risk of patient infection by reducing the potential for fluid pathway contamination.
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BD PosiFlush™ Pre-Filled Syringes
For optimal clinical outcomes, there's just one choice for your saline and heparin flush syringes: BD PosiFlush Pre-Filled Saline and Heparin Syringes. The uniquely designed BD PosiFlush Syringe provides all the quality and outcomes you've come to expect from BD.
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BD split septum IV access devices
BD split septum IV access devices were all engineered with infection control and prevention of HAIs in mind.
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BD Q-Syte™ Luer Access Split-Septum (US)
Interlink® Needleless IV Access Devices (US)
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Faster Diagnosis for Earlier Appropriate Antibiotic Treatment - It makes sense that the earlier a patient presenting with symptoms of an infection is put on the proper antibiotic, the better the outcome.* BD is committed to enabling earlier actionable diagnostic information.
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BD BACTEC™ Instrumented Blood Culture Systems
The BACTEC™ 9000 series blood culturing instruments used with patented resin-containing media have shown higher rates of organism recovery, allowing for proper diagnosis and treatment of bloodstream infections.*
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BD GeneOhm™ StaphSR Assay
The BD GeneOhm™ StaphSR assay provides simultaneous identification of both MRSA and Staphylococcus aureus from a positive BD BACTEC blood culture. The two-hour diagnostic result will allow for earlier initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
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BD Phoenix™ Automated Microbiology System
The BD Phoenix™ Automated Microbiology System , with its unique technology for susceptibility testing, provides high accuracy combined with rapid time to result. Because MRSA, VRE and Extended Spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) are the most important resistance markers linked to HAIs, the performance of the laboratory’s ID-AST system to detect these mechanisms is critical.
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BD EpiCenter™ Microbiology Data Management System
The BD EpiCenter™ Microbiology Data Management System provides unique software that enables microbiologists, infection control professionals, pharmacists and physicians to work in a collaborative, integrated fashion to optimally manage Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) in their facilities. The software is compatible with the hospital’s existing Microsoft Windows™ computer network, providing simultaneous access to all connected staff. BD EpiCenter™ delivers healthcare professionals with a library of ready-to-use epidemiology reports designed to discover and monitor HAI outbreaks and trends. The system deploys a user-defined “Pro-Active” alerting system for the instant communication of sentinel events such as HAIs and antimicrobial-resistance marker detection.
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The BD Vacutainer® Urine C&S Preservative Plus Plastic Tube
with its unique preservative formula, doesn't allow bacteria to overgrow, helping the clinician in identifying the pathogen of a urinary tract infection sooner. Once the pathogen is identified, treatment can be initiated quickly.
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