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
Product Information
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Managing Chest Pain
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Quality Initiatives
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Wide variety of services
About Dade Behring
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.
Product Information
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:
* 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
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Select the most
appropriate marker or markers specific to the individual patient.
Pay only for tests that are relevant
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Eliminate reagent
waste with single-use TestPaks
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One sample, one
run, one instrument
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Reduce the time
and costs associated with processing daily liquid QC
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Provides liquid
QC flexibility system check (Electronic QC),
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Rapid turnaround
time: 15 minutes to first result, and 4 minutes for each subsequent
result
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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
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Reduce the risk of bloodborne pathogen exposure by whole
blood sample without manipulation of the sample and automated waste
disposal
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Customize your QC Program with Lockouts-If any lockout
conditions are violated, the system will not allow patient samples to be
processed
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Maintain control via LIS interface in the laboratory with
Connectivity/Remote System Monitoring
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Barcode readers for positive sample ID and reagent
information
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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:
"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
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Onsite training
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A dedicated field
service group
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24 hour technical
telephone support
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A Clinical Quality
Initiatives Team
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Audio conferences
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Continuing education
programs
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An educational Web
site,
www.chestpainperspectives.com
