The Total Solution for Detection of Bacteria in Platelets

Features and Benefits

• Advanced technology designed to support blood bank cGMP
  Easily integrates into routine practice
  
• Enhanced sensitivity and specificity
  
• Single use, closed system processing minimizes false positives
  
• Single point test provides "test of record" prior to transfusion
  
• Minimal platelet loss of 4 mL
  
• Reduced operator manipulation through enhanced sampling port design
  
• Detection prior to the time of release or the time of transfusion
  
• Rapid read system provides Pass/Fail results in approximately 30 seconds

The Testing Principle Behind the Pall eBDS
Percent oxygen in air, the practical approach

The Pall eBDS novel approach to detection measures the oxygen content of air within the sample pouch
as a surrogate marker for bacteria. The Pall eBDS Oxygen Analyzer is used to measure the percent of
oxygen in the headspace gas of the sample pouch. If bacteria are present in the platelet sample collected,
an increasing amount of oxygen is consumed through the metabolic activity and proliferation of the
bacteria in the sample during incubation, resulting in a measurable decrease in oxygen content of the
plasma as well as the air within the sample pouch.