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False positive blood cultures today
pose a signilicant threat to the American health care system. Not only are they a source of great frustration to microbiologists, but they also inhibit efficient patient care and total more than $22 million annually in un-
necessary medical expenditures.
The problem very often begins with poor skin prepping techniques. Unfortunately it ends with everyone paying a price:
The laboratory-
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For every false posi-
tive that results in an additional blood cul-
ture order by the physician, the cost is at least $50. This figure reflects the direct costs of duplicated use of supplies, the extra time and labor The hidden, indirect costs can be astronomical.
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The microbiologist-When
aseptic prepping techniques are not standardized
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throughout the hospital, contamination rates rise, and the microbiologist could
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end up paying for increased false positives
with his own decreased credibility.
The patient-When the physician does not definitively know whether a positive blood culture represents
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pathogen or a contaminant, antibiotics may be initiated unnecessarily and hospitalization extended, costing as much as $600 per day. Even more critical are the additional medical complications. Septicemia, for example, is characterized by a 40-500/o mortality rate, making expedient and accurate blood culturing vital.
At Medi-Flex, we believe the best way lo limit the costly consequences of lalse positive blood cultures is to prevent contamination. That's why our Blood Culture Prep Kit was designed with a number of unique features to mal€ it an unmatched prophylaxis against pseudobacteremia. ln fact, while the American Society of Microbiologists reports a3-50/o national false positive rale, laboratories that consistently use the Medi-Flex Blood Culture Prep Kit lower their contamination rates to 1-20/0.
The Blood Culture Prep Kit is distinguished by
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Gasy, two-step prepping
that prcmotes aseptic technique.
The FREPP@ Scrub Applicator with Alcohol/Acetone, in addition to facilitating a thorough friction scrub, also delivers optimal bactericidal action down to the lower skin layers. The SEPPo Antiseptic Applicator containing 100/o Povidone lodine, unlike messy $ilabsticls and pads, provides quick, easy, hands-off concentric circle prepping while virtually eliminating the risk of cross-contamination. -dF'd
. standardized prepping procedures lor all blood culture draws. The Blood Culture Prep Kit actually promotes compliance as well as good aseptic technique throughout the hospital.
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clean, no-drip handling.
Our special packaging and applicator design keeps solutions off hands so there is no mess and a
no need to worry about compromising technique.
Understanding the elements of aseptic prepping procedures and why they are vitally important
can have a direct eflect on lowering your contamination rate.
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With Medi-Flex, you gain imrhediate access t0 a training format designed to teach your staff proven techniques of our blood culture prepping procedure. We will work with you to schedule an inservice program designed to teach aseptic technique and acquaint your team with the proper use of the Blood Culture Prep Kit. 0ther elements of our training program include:
. a video tape of the Medi-Flex inservice session . a Blood Culture Prep Kit poster outlining the steps for a proper skin prep.
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post-it pads with additional outline of proper skin prep procedure.
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a Phlebotomists' lncentive Program.
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We are so conlident the Medi-Flex Blood Culture prepping system will reduce your lalse positive rate that wdve backed it up with an unprecedented guarantee.
Guananteed Simply purchase a one-month supply of our blood culture prep kits, let us inservice your staff, and then put our product to work exclusively for one month, keeping record of your false positives. At the end of one month, if your rate of false positives has not dropped below 2olo or by 500/o (whichever is greater), we will give you one month's supply FREE. Either way, you make a clean sweep.
So, don't let lalse positive blood cultures continue at your expense. Turn to the back ol this brochure for an analysis ol how reducing your contamination rate with the Medi-Flex Blood Culture Prepping System can save you plenty.
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LABORAIORY CO$ ANALYSI S FALSE POSITIVE BLOOD CULTURES CURRENT PREPPING PRODUSI VS. BLOOD CULTURE PREP KIT EXAMPLE OF COST ANALYSIS CURRENT PREPPING PRODUCT
Blood cultures per month
MEDI.FLEX BLOOD CULTURE PREP KIT
x
2
Total preps per month
x
1000 .03
3o/o
x
False Positive episodes per month
1000
1o/o
1000
x
.01
30
30 $50.00
x
Cost to the lab per episode Total monthly cost to the lab for false positive blood
10
x
$
Material costs per prep
x
Preps per month Material costs per month
Total monthly cost to the 1 - (the cost of false positives added to prepping material costs)
$
.25 1000
10
$50.00 $500.00
$1500.00
blood cultures
MEDI.FLEX BLOOD CULTURE PREP KIT
2
1000
Contamination rate
CURRENT PREPPING PRODUCT
a
500
500
Preps per blood culture
COST ANALYSIS FOR YOUR LABORATORY
x
.zs
1000
$250,00
$750.00
$17s0.00
$1250.00
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Total savings to the lab
$s00.00
Ordering lnformation 26-03.05 BLOOD CULTURE PREP Kit Each kit contains:
26.02.88 FREPP/SEPP@ Kit Each kit contains:
One FREPP Scrub Applicator with 700lo Alcohol/1O0/o Acetone One SEPP Antiseptic Applicator with Povidone lodine, 100/o USP One alcohol prep pad Packaged: 20 sterile kits/carton; 25 cartons/case
One FREPP Scrub Applicator with tuvidone lodine Scrub Solution, 2olo Aqueous One SEPP Antiseptic Applicator with Povidone lodine, 100/o USP Packaged: 20 sterile kits/carton; 25 cartons/case
AVAILABLE THROUGH YOUR LOCAL LABORATORY SUPPLY DEALER OR CONTACT OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE AT 1.800.523.0502
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10880 Benson Drive
. Suite 2330 . 0verland Park, Kansas 66210 . 1-913-451-0880
1-800-523-0502