NEPTUNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Excelsior Medical Corporation announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued new US Patent No. 8,167,847 to the company. The patent relates to an antiseptic cap and antiseptic cap equipped plunger and syringe barrel assembly.
Excelsior Medical’s integrated delivery system called SwabFlush™ combines the company’s evidence-based disinfection cap, SwabCap®, with a saline flush syringe. The benefits of SwabCap have been established in recent studies such as a prospective, peer-reviewed clinical trial at the four-hospital NorthShore University Health System (Evanston, Ill.) and a multi-site study of SwabCap use at 12 hospitals by Gregory Schears, M.D. of Rochester, Minn.
Several studies have shown the combined disinfection cap and flush syringe improve compliance with disinfection and patient safety protocols. For example, Doctors Hospital of Laredo (Laredo, Tex.) adopted an Excelsior product called SwabKIT™ that combines SwabCap with a flush syringe, although in this case as separate devices in a single package. A 72.5% reduction in central line associated bloodstream infections was observed over a one-year span after SwabKIT was adopted.
The combination of disinfection cap and flush syringe make the cap available when the final flush of a line access is performed. That combination improves disinfection through greater cap compliance.
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* Scientific poster: Data from NorthShore Health System study of disinfection cap
* Scientific poster: Multi-site clinical trial of disinfection cap
* Clinical case study (Doctors Hospital of Laredo): Combined Disinfection Cap and Flush Syringe Improve IV Disinfection Process
* Clinical Case Study (Mission Regional Medical Center): Disinfection Cap and Flush Syringe Improve Disinfection of IV Connectors
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* Data from multi-site clinical trial of disinfection cap
About Excelsior Medical Corp.
Excelsior Medical Corporation is a privately held medical device company with a primary focus on innovative catheter maintenance products that may reduce infection, medication errors and healthcare costs. The company makes SwabCap, SwabKIT and SwabFlush for disinfection and protection of IV needleless connectors. Formed in 1989, Excelsior also manufactures and sells pre-filled saline flush syringes, pre-filled heparin flush and lock syringes, and syringe pump systems to customers throughout the world.
For more information, call 800-487-4276 or access www.excelsiormedical.com.