The success of blood cultures is dependent on the collection of uncontaminated specimens, culture of a large volume of blood, and inoculation of multiple media types to maximize the recovery of most ...

A blood culture is a routine laboratory test in which blood – or another sterile body fluid – is taken from a patient and inoculated into bottles containing specialized media to determine whether ...

All 12 studies showed a reduced blood culture contamination rate after introducing Kurin Lock. Most of the studies were based in the US but there were 3 quality improvement studies based in NHS ...

In July, federal health officials warned hospitals that there would be a critical shortage of blood culture bottles that will stretch into September. Blood culture bottles are key in diagnosing sepsis ...

Shortly after securing an FDA clearance last month for its simple, self-operated blood sample collection device, Tasso has teamed up with Catapult Health to help propel its device into people’s homes.

Novel innovations for stabilizing the plasma proteome in whole blood samples provide researchers with more confidence in their protein analysis. To reduce the preanalytical variability, scientists can ...

Jan 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. health regulator said on Wednesday it was expanding the medical device shortage list to include all blood specimen collection tubes due to supply challenges led by an ...

FDA today sent a letter to healthcare providers detailing that the United States is experiencing interruptions in the supply of BD Life Sciences Bactec blood culture media bottles due to recent ...

Medical device company Becton Dickinson (BD) may be nearing the end of a shortage of plastic bottles used to contain blood culture media, a company official said Tuesday. "Because of actions BD ...