La Grande Observer

New Study Demonstrates Potential for Enhanced Accuracy of Blood Cultures with Steripath® Initial Specimen Diversion Device® (ISDD®) for Central Line Draws

SEATTLE, March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc., the pioneer in Initial Specimen Diversion Device ® (ISDD ®) technology, today announced groundbreaking new findings from an ...
Labroots

Strategies to Improve Your Lab's Blood Culture Process

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 ...
Business Wire

Kurin, Inc. Receives Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office for Patent on Innovative Blood Culture Collection Device

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kurin, Inc., the inventor and manufacturer of 510(k)-cleared Kurin® blood culture collection sets, announced today that the United States Patent Office allowed its patent ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Kurin Lock for blood culture collection

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 ...
STAT

What we do and don’t know about the shortage of blood culture bottles

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 ...