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Dade Behring, Inc.
1717 Deerfield Road
Deerfield IL  60015

(800) 242-DADE, Option 3
cardiac_acute_care@dadebehring.com

www.dadebehring.com
www.chestpainperspectives.com

With 2005 revenue of nearly $1.7 billion, Dade Behring is the world's largest company solely dedicated to clinical diagnostics.  It offers a wide range of products, systems and services designed to meet the day-to-day needs of laboratories, delivering innovative solutions to customers and enhancing the quality of life for patients.  Dade Behring’s commitment to Cardiovascular Disease Management addresses the full array of customer-requested needs, from Risk Assessment to Risk Stratification and Therapy, through safe and accurate diagnosis.  This commitment represents one of several core diagnostic areas in which Dade Behring has pursued excellence over the years. Additional company information is available on the Internet at www.dadebehring.com.

Stratus^® CS Acute Care™ System Kiosk

The Stratus® CS Acute Care™ Diagnostic System is a model of cost effectiveness and efficiency for both your laboratory and the near-patient setting. The Stratus® CS Acute Care™ Analyzer offers the first FDA-cleared high-sensitivity troponin assay with the low-end precision to meet the 2005 ACC/AHA practice guidelines. It features a broad menu of tests that allow better chest pain differentiation from one sample, on one run, on one instrument. 

Leveraging the robust quantitative cardiac menu, the Stratus® CS Acute Care™ System Kiosk is uniquely designed for use in the acute care setting. As a fully-mobile unit, the Stratus® CS Acute Care™ System Kiosk can be used as a stand-alone workstation featuring its own lightweight cart, refrigerator and power supply.

Test Menu:

• High sensitivity troponin-I

• Myoglobin

• Mass CK-MB

• NT-proBNP

• D-dimer

• bhCG

• Cardio Phase® hs CRP*

* Under development

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Managing Chest Pain to Meet the Challenge

More than 8 million patients with chest pain suggestive of myocardial ischemia visit Emergency Departments (EDs) annually. After initial clinical and ECG evaluation, approximately 75% of chest pain patients lack objective evidence of unstable coronary syndrome. The lack of objective evidence has generated significant challenges in the acute-care setting. Accelerated diagnostic protocols using biochemical markers and near-patient testing strategies help reduce hospital stays and resultant costs in the management of both ACS-positive and ACS-negative patients.

Manage Patients, Not Tests

The Stratus® CS Acute Care™ analyzer is easy to use and ideal for all skill levels. It requires no sample preparation due to onboard centrifugation of whole blood from the primary collection tube. Simple operation; just load and go.

While Providing Substantial Savings

• Select the most appropriate marker or markers specific to the individual patient.
  Pay only for tests that are relevant

• Eliminate reagent waste with single-use TestPaks

• One sample, one run, one instrument

• Reduce the time and costs associated with processing daily liquid QC

• Provides liquid QC flexibility system check (Electronic QC),

• Rapid turnaround time: 15 minutes to first result, and 4 minutes for each subsequent result

• Decrease TAT, patient length of stay, and total patients costs utilizing the Status® CS
  Acute Care™ system in the acute care setting (Studies prove it.)

While Providing Safety

• Reduce the risk of bloodborne pathogen exposure by whole blood sample without manipulation of the sample and automated waste disposal

• Customize your QC Program with Lockouts-If any lockout conditions are violated, the system will not allow patient samples to be processed

• Maintain control via LIS interface in the laboratory with Connectivity/Remote System Monitoring

• Barcode readers for positive sample ID and reagent information

• Ensure operation by qualified personnel with operator ID validation

"The Stratus® CS is a rare instrument that truly helps the emergency staff focus more on patients, while providing much-needed, high-quality cardiac test results with a minimum of effort… this analyzer’s speed rivals qualitative methodologies… and gives results equal to those from highly sophisticated central laboratory instrumentation."

T. Walker and C. Leiferman, POCT Coordinator
American Clinical Laboratory. 2001.

To learn more about the Stratus^® CS system, click here.

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Quality Initiatives Throughout the Continuum of Acute Care

Dade Behring has a unique commitment and dedication to, as well as a singular focus on Acute Care Services, which extend beyond selling products to providing incremental value to our customers.  We enhance people's lives by being the most responsive provider of quality diagnostic products and services.

Whether in the laboratory, emergency department, chest pain center, intensive care or surgical recovery areas, improvement of patient care and the enhancement of resource utilization are the goals of our Clinical Quality Initiatives Team.  Focusing on Acute Care Services, the team works to provide high-quality consultative support within hospital clinical environments in order to make a positive impact on healthcare.

The Clinical Quality Initiatives Team provides real solutions to customers' needs and opportunities by applying over 130 years of clinical cardiac experience in fields such as:

• Nursing

• Risk Management

• Emergency Medical Services

• Laboratory Medicine

• Third-party Administration

"Dade Behring's CQI Team is comprised of professionals who have functioned in the clinical environment. Their knowledge, in particular from the perspective of the caregiver, contributed greatly to the successful implementation of cardiac marker testing within our emergency department."

Robert H. Christenson, PhD, DABCC, FACB
University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD

To learn more about the CQI Team, click here.

Wide variety of services, support and education

• Onsite training

• A dedicated field service group

• 24 hour technical telephone support

• A Clinical Quality Initiatives Team

• Audio conferences

• Continuing education programs

• An educational Web site, www.chestpainperspectives.com

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