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Why BD Vacutainer
®
Plus Plastic Tubes?
There has been an increasing customer preference for safety-engineered product
solutions and improved clinical performance. These preferences are being driven by
marketplace trends. It is the goal of BD to provide customers with the highest
quality products that are clinically proven and medically necessary.
• Clinical Expertise: The efficacy, performance, and ease of use of BD
Vacutainer
®
Plus Plastic Tubes are clinically proven and supported by more than
100 clinical studies involving a vast array of analytes and diagnostic instruments.
Your BD Sales Consultant can provide further information and documentation
from our library of clinical data.
• Experience: The BD legacy of innovative medical technology dates back more
than a century. Most notable of our early blood collection innovations is the
introduction and subsequent patent in 1949 of the world’s first blood collection
tube. The first BD plastic blood collection tube was introduced in 1991.
This marked another technological achievement from BD that followed years of
design, testing, and clinical trial evaluations.
BD produces in excess of 3.5 billion tubes annually, earning it the designation of
the world’s largest manufacturer of evacuated blood collection tubes. As a
major worldwide medical device manufacturer, BD prides itself in
manufacturing operations that maintain the highest standards for quality and
efficiency. All BD Diagnostics - Preanalytical Systems manufacturing sites have
achieved and maintain ISO 13485:2003 certification.
• Compatibility: To ensure that BD Vacutainer
®
Plus Plastic Tubes are
compatible with major diagnostic systems, BD maintains ongoing discussions
with the instrument manufacturers who are on the cutting edge of tomorrow’s
diagnostic technologies.
• Safety: BD Vacutainer
®
Plus Plastic Blood Collection Tubes are proven to be a
safer alternative to glass. Our plastic tubes are virtually break resistant*, thus
helping to protect healthcare personnel from injury and exposure to
bloodborne pathogens. The BD Vacutainer
®
Hemogard™ Closure is a safety-
engineered closure, featuring an integrated shield that prevents human contact
with blood on the stopper or tube rim and effectively guards against blood
splatter and splashing.
• Cost Effectiveness: BD Vacutainer
®
Plus Plastic Tubes can be disposed of safely
and efficiently by incineration, thereby reducing medical waste disposal costs.
The durability and safety of BD Vacutainer
®
Plus Plastic Tubes help to decrease
turnaround time and improve laboratory efficiency by providing a high quality
specimen and by helping to minimize risk of bloodborne pathogen infection to
the laboratorian.*
* Data on file
LEGEND
✓ Indicates part of the
BD Best Practice Formulary
G Indicates a glass tube
P Paper Label
ST See Thru Label
BD Vacutainer
®
Hemogard
™
Tube Closure
Conventional
Tube Stopper
PARTIAL DRAW TUBES
All BD Vacutainer
®
Tubes, except for Citrate,
that are13x75mm in size with a draw volume
of 3.0mL or less, are considered partial draw
tubes.
▲ BD CLINICAL ADVANTAGE
The use of partial draw tubes may be preferred
under the following circumstances:
- When a standard size tube is preferred for
processing efficiencies, but a smaller draw
volume is required for patient care
- When patient or equipment circumstances
may require less vacuum than that produced
by a full draw tube
▲ BD CLINICAL ADVANTAGE:
What is the BD Best Practice Formulary?
The BD Best Practice Formulary (BPF), as it relates to BD Vacutainer
®
Blood
Collection Tubes, was developed to provide customers with a condensed yet
comprehensive array of BD Vacutainer
®
Blood Collection Tubes for virtually every
clinical need. Each tube chosen for inclusion in the BPF meets the demanding
requirements of today’s complex diagnostic instruments and fits within the
current clinical guidelines of the scientific and medical communities. The BD Best
Practice Formulary provides the optimal offering for all of your clinical needs.