MedPage Today

What Can We Learn From Blood Culture Bottle Shortage?

On July 10, the FDA issued an advisory to clinicians that Becton Dickinson (BD) had announced a global shortage of their Bactec blood culture bottles -- which are essential in the case of suspected ...
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 ...
STAT

Hospitals, labs, and health departments try to cope with blood culture bottle shortage

Hospitals across the country are facing a severe shortage of supplies of blood culture bottles, critical tools for diagnosing serious and sometimes life-threatening bloodstream infections. The Centers ...
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 ...
WMUR

Shortage of blood culture vials could impact patient care, CDC and FDA warn

There is a “critical shortage” of certain vials used to collect samples for blood cultures, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned health care providers on Tuesday.These tests help ...
Labroots

Give Blood Culture Quality the Attention your Patients Deserve

Blood Cultures are the gold standard test for Sepsis diagnosis and an essential first step in infectious organism identification. Improving its quality is critical to the outcomes for a patient with ...