bloodstream infection News
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Accelerate Pheno System Live at Midland Memorial Hospital
Today, Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas announced that its laboratory team took the Accelerate Pheno® system clinically live to improve care for patients with bloodstream infections and sepsis. The system will enable the laboratory’s microbiology team to deliver fast antimicrobial susceptibility results with minimum inhibitory concentrations to clinicians who serve Midland ...
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Live at Saint Mary’s Regional Health System
Today, Saint Mary’s Regional Health System in Russellville, Arkansas announced that its laboratory went clinically live with the Accelerate Pheno® system, taking a leap forward in its care for patients with bloodstream infections and sepsis. The four-module system will enable the laboratory’s microbiology team to deliver fast antimicrobial susceptibility test results to clinicians ...
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FDA grants new QIDP Designation Status for BTX 1801
Botanix is pleased to announce that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Antimicrobial Products has granted new Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) status for our antibacterial product, BTX 1801. This QDIP designation applies to the use of BTX 1901 to potentially ‘reduce the risk of Staph. aureus bloodstream infections in colonised patients dependent on central ...
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New Accelerate Pheno Landmark Study Validates Important Clinical Benefits to Be Presented at ECCMID 2021
In Patients Who Receive Ineffective Empirical Antibiotics for Blood Stream Infections (BSI), Use of AXDX Was Associated With Reduction in 30-Day Mortality Interim Data From Multicenter Study Highlight the Real-World Clinical Utility of Fast Phenotypic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for BSI Across Diverse Healthcare Settings and Patient Populations Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. ...
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Fresenius Medical Care expands critical care offering with ExThera Medical’s Seraph 100 adsorber
Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s leading provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure, will offer the Seraph 100 Microbind Affinity Blood Filter from ExThera Medical Corporation in several European countries as of now. Both companies have signed a co-marketing and distribution agreement, effective in January 2021 and covering Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, ...
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Infection Prevention through Clean Water: How Healthcare Facilities Can Mitigate Healthcare-Associated Infections from Water
Healthcare-associated infections or HAIs are infections people get while they are receiving health care for another condition. These infections can happen in all types of healthcare settings and are a significant cause of patient illness and death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 31 patients experience a healthcare-associated infection on any given day, ...
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Candidiasis Infections Impact Midwest Healthcare Facilities
Candidiasis is caused by fungal pathogens from the Candida genus. Most infections are caused by Candida albicans, a type of fungus that grows both as a yeast and filamentous cells. The ubiquitous fungi represent one of the most common fungal pathogens to affect the human population. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Invasive candidiasis is a fungal ...
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Delaware IAQ Professional Identifies Fungal Pathogens
Fungal pathogens can be found across the United States and the Mid-Atlantic region is no exception. These fungi cause disease in humans and one of the most recognized types of fungi that cause opportunistic infections in immunocomprimised individuals is known as Candida. Candidiasis is caused by fungal pathogens from the Candida genus. Most infections are caused by Candida albicans, a type ...
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Klebsiella in Healthcare Settings Exposed in New Online Video
Today, the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of another online video to help educate the public about issues that may impact their health. The latest educational video discusses the threat to human health due to the presence of Klebsiella in healthcare environments. Klebsiella is a type of Gram-negative bacteria that can cause different types of healthcare ...
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Patient Enrollment is Complete in the DOD-Funded Study of Extracorporeal Hemopurification of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
MARTINEZ, Calif. – PURIFY OBS, an observational study of critically-ill COVID patients treated with the Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100), has recently completed enrollment. A multicenter effort led by the US Department of Defense (DOD) published interim results in April 2021. Observations included dramatic improvement in survival and reduction in median ICU ...
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ExThera Medical and Asahi Kasei Medical Enter into Partnership to Expand Reach of Treatment for the Critically Ill
MARTINEZ, Calif. – ExThera Medical and Asahi Kasei Medical, a core operating company of the Asahi Kasei Group, have entered into an exclusive distribution agreement in Japan for ExThera’s Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100). Per the agreement structure, ExThera Medical and Asahi Kasei Medical will collaborate to obtain regulatory approval of Seraph 100 ...
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New Technology Leads to Decreased Hemolysis Rates
Laboratories in an increasing number of U. S. hospitals and healthcare systems are seeing significantly lower hemolysis rates in the blood specimens their staff are collecting with new technology designed for drawing blood with a single-use, sterile device that advances into the vein through a peripheral IV (PIV). The technology, PIVO (Velano Vascular, San Francisco, California), is ...
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Michael Porter of Harvard Business School has Joined the Board of Directors of ExThera Medical Corporation
Michael Porter, Ph.D., has joined the board of directors of ExThera Medical Corporation, a privately held medical technology company focused on the therapeutic reduction of drug-resistant pathogens and sepsis mediators in whole blood. ExThera’s Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100) has a CE Mark in Europe for the treatment of a wide range of bloodstream ...
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Klebsiella in Healthcare Settings Discussed in New Online Video
The IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of their latest educational video today. Their newest production discusses Klebsiella, a type of gram-negative bacteria that can cause various healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). “HAIs due to Klebsiella can include pneumonia, bloodstream infections, wound or surgical site infections, and meningitis,” said ...
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Evaxion Biotech Announces Publication of Study on S. aureus Bacterium in Scientific Reports
Evaxion Biotech A/S (NASDAQ: EVAX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company specializing in the development of AI-driven immunotherapies to improve the lives of patients with cancer and infectious diseases, announced today the publication of a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, describing a study into the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). The paper can be accessed ...
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ExThera’s Affinity Blood Filter Is Used to Treat COVID-19 Patients
Treatment of COVID-19 with ExThera’s Seraph®100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter (Seraph 100) has begun in hospitals in Germany and Italy. Seraph 100 treatments of COVID-19 are also expected to begin soon in France and the USA. Seraph 100 is the only ‘hemoperfusion device’ approved for the reduction of pathogens in blood. In recent EU clinical cases improved lung ...
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Daptomycin ReadyMade™ Solution to Power Up Spectrum and Microbiology Applications
Amerigo Scientific, a distributor focused on providing critical products and services to biomedical and life science communities, unveils the addition of the reliable Daptomycin ReadyMade™ Solution to its growing portfolio of innovative products to power up spectrum and microbiology applications. Daptomycin is an essential antibiotic used in the treatment of serious bacterial infections, ...
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Infection Control Resources to Identify Klebsiella and Other Pathogens in Healthcare Settings throughout Puerto Rico
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes Klebsiella as a type of gram-negative bacteria that can cause different types of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). These include pneumonia, bloodstream infections, wound or surgical site infections, and meningitis. The agency warns Klebsiella bacteria have increasingly developed antimicrobial resistance, most recently to the ...
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Accelerate Diagnostics Announces New FDA Clearance for Accelerate PhenoTest Improvements
Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXDX) today announced that the Company has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for a new suite of product enhancements to the Accelerate Pheno® system, which improve performance and expand the system's antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) menu for bloodstream infections. The new product release, formally classified as FDA ...
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Candida auris and Infection Control Resources for Healthcare Providers
Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant microorganism that was first identified in 2009 in Asia. It has quickly become a cause of severe infections around the world, including in the United States according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is as yeast, which is a type of fungi. CDC describes Candida auris as a concerning drug-resistant fungus because it is: ...
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