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BD Kiestra™ ReadA
BD Kiestra™ ReadA+BarcodA
Automated incubation and high-resolution plate imaging
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BD Kiestra™ ReadA can be offered as a standalone smart plate management, incubation, and imaging system that offers a practical starting point in your microbiology laboratory’s automation journey.
The BD Kiestra™ ReadA transforms plate management workflows with a streamlined process that empowers your laboratory staff to refocus their valuable time on crucial plate reading and interpretation which require their skills and knowledge. Investing in a smart incubation and high-resolution imaging solution with integrated informatics may enhance the efficiency and accuracy your laboratory delivers amid ongoing staffing challenges while supporting the seamless integration of other BD lab automation solutions to meet future needs.
With the introduction of the BD Kiestra™ ReadA+BarcodA, the world-class incubation platform can be offered as a standalone smart plate management, incubation, and imaging system that provides a practical starting point in your microbiology laboratory’s automation journey.
Contact us to learn how the BD Kiestra™ ReadA may help your lab:
- Implement automation and informatics in the incubation and imaging step of the diagnostic pathway, which may help you deliver results more efficiently – even when short-staffed.
- Automate routine plate management tasks which may increase your lab's productivity by giving you the flexibility to utilize your staff and their skill sets more effectively.
- Allow lab technicians to fully employ their advanced plate reading and interpretation skills brings more value to the lab by making the most of your investment in your staff and supporting their professional growth.
The BD Kiestra™ ReadA+BarcodA: Standalone smart plate management,
incubation and high-resolution imaging that grows with your lab.
Grow with your demand: modular, flexible, and scalable automation with BD Kiestra™ Solutions
Enhance workflow
Provides accurate and consistent reading times with automated plate imaging, providing flexibility to laboratories to read images at different time-points per their operating protocols. This technology opens the possibility of new workflows across the incubation cycle.
Drive standardization
Helps enhance bacterial growth by standardizing incubation times and conditions in a controlled, closed-door environment. Closed door incubation increases bacterial isolation by up to 46% compared to traditional microbiology.1
Improve operational efficiency
Improve operational efficiency by automating plate sorting and distribution. Plates are automatically delivered to the appropriate incubator to begin the incubation and imaging protocol.
Deliver accuracy
Capture images in a standardized manner to reduce variability, improve the consistency of results and see details invisible to the human eye.
The BD Kiestra™ ReadA offers bottom-line
impact with a targeted investment.
Automating routine plate management and incubation processes helps:
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Decrease the need for overtime and agency personnel while meeting growing test demands.
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Allow lab technicians to fully employ their advanced plate reading and interpretation skills, making the most of your investment in your staff.
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Capture revenue by allowing you to process more tests in-house.
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Flexible connectivity
Available as part of a track-based BD Kiestra™ laboratory automation solution or as a standalone instrument, allowing flexible options based on your laboratory’s current workflow and size
Workflow management
BD Synapsys™ microbiology informatics solution provides a patient summary overview to assist culture interpretation by laboratory staff. Providing access to the right information anywhere, anytime with the BD Synapsys™ solution may help improve laboratory decision-making
Input stackers
Automate plate management with four input stackers enabling continuous loading of inoculated plates. Each stacker can be configured to a specific task, including a priority plate infeed to allow the handing of priority plates when needed
Output stackers
Automate plate management with 4 output stackers for user-configurable plate sorting including waste handling, follow-up work and offloading of plates for external incubation
Parallel plate processing
Four input stackers connect to the infeed track to automatically move plates in and out of the incubator
High throughput imaging
High speed camera that can image up to 300 plates per hour
Closed door incubation
Enables constant temperature and humidity at stable O2 or CO2 levels
Laminar air flow
Laminar air flow stabilizes conditions for every individual plate stored in the incubator, minimizing the chance of plates drying out
Standardized incubation times
Plate protocol will direct incubation condition, incubation duration and image times
Automated plate orientation
Plate labels are scanned prior to imaging to ensure full traceability and consistent orientation for improved reproducibility and productivity of result reporting
BD Kiestra™ Optis technology
High-quality camera with customized optics and plate orientation to normalize and standardize images made over time and minimize variation between instruments. With 22 images taken of each plate, optimal pixels are identified for ideal image representation
Three different light sources
Top, bottom and side light for optimal colony presentation on high resolution monitors
High quality plate imaging
25-megapixel camera with a telecentric lens
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- Klein et al. Significant increase in cultivation of Gardnerella vaginalis, Alloscardovia omnicolens, Actinotignum schallii, and Actinomyces spp. in urine samples with total laboratory automation. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2018;37(7):1305–1311.
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