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Achieve Antimicrobial Stewardship Through Improved Diagnostic Safety

Align Your Sepsis Protocol and Drive Antibiotic Stewardship with Steripath®

Reducing blood culture contamination, which contributes to a misdiagnosis of sepsis and unnecessary administration of antibiotics like Vancomycin, proves to be one of the most effective methods in preventing multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) and avoiding antibiotic-related infections like Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI).

Steripath® is FDA 510(k)-cleared to specifically reduce blood culture contamination, initiating a ripple effect of quality improvement and positive outcomes for patients and hospitals nationwide. The use of Steripath has been shown to reduce Vancomycin days of therapy (DOT) by as much as 31%.31

Only Four Ways to Stop Antibiotic Resistance

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Diagnostic Stewardship with Steripath can help achieve three of these four ways to stop resistance.

Prevent an infection from happening (CDI)

Prevent its spread (E-LOS)

Improve antibiotic use (prevent unnecessary/inappropriate)

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Develop new drugs and diagnostic tests.

Drive Antibiotic Stewardship

Blood culture results play a critical role in determining if antibiotic treatment can be de-
escalated for patients in the sepsis protocol. Treatment is typically continued for patients with positive blood cultures, even when contamination is suspected. Reducing false-positive blood culture results can guide appropriate treatment and dramatically reduce unnecessary antibiotic treatment.

Time to de-escalation

Increased confidence in blood culture results to better guide patient treatment

Hospital-onset antibiotic resistance

Reduce prolonged use of unnecessary broad-spectrum antibiotics

Antibiotic cost per admission

Cut costs associated with unnecessary antibiotic treatment

Mission to zero

We’re on a mission to improve the diagnostic accuracy and timeliness of sepsis test results.

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