®, the only FDA-cleared device platform indicated to reduce blood culture contamination
1 – today announced that unprecedented Steripath clinical study results were presented to the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB).
Lucy S. Tompkins, MD, Ph.D., a professor and infectious diseases, microbiology and epidemiology expert at Stanford Health Care, presented Steripath
® Gen2 Initial Specimen Diversion Device
® (ISDD
®) phase-one study results at the PACCARB meeting in Washington, DC demonstrating unmatched reductions to blood culture contamination and false-positive central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates.
"What was even more clinically significant is that a 0.0% contamination rate and 0.0% false-positive CLABSI rate were maintained across over 11,000 blood cultures when Steripath was used throughout the course of the 10-month total trial period," continued Dr. Tompkins