Performance and Advantages

Excellent Performance

The unique, closed-system, 64-well Test Cards of the VITEK 2 system can greatly expand the parameters of your analyses. Each Test Card is light and compact, thus reducing the weight and volume of your deliveries, storage and contaminated waste disposal.

Biology: Excellent Performance for Clinical Relevance

Microbiological Identification (ID) focused on:

• Frequency of isolation
  
• Pathogenicity
  
• Clinical importance regarding antimicrobic therapy

Antimicrobic Susceptibility Testing (AST) aimed at:

• High-Quality MIC
  
• Extended MIC ranges that provide data on emerging and low-level antimicrobic resistances

Advanced EXPERT System (AES)

• ID & MIC results are combined and analyzed by the Advanced EXPERT System for a new generation of AST performance:

  Comprehensive
  Antimicrobic
  Resistance
  Detection

Workflow: Improves Processes with Security & Productivity

Simple, standardized Test Card preparation gives high productivity with streamlined workflow: Electronic information link provides full process traceability

• Flexibility allows adaptation to the organization of each laboratory
  
• Automation achieves full process control
  
• Flexible software with intuitive interface allows multiple users

Therapy: Fast Information on High-Efficacy, Low-Cost Therapy

• Provide rapid results
  
• Increase clinical utility
  
• Microbiology service participates in - and adds value to - the outcome process
  
• Method is reliable
  
• Provide chain of assurance in the testing process
  
• Performance proven by published studies
  
• Provide relevant results
  
• Reports provide the highest level of assurance for the therapy decision process

Economics: Laboratory Investment Leading to Hospital Savings

Laboratory cost benefits include:

• Productivity savings
  
• Operating costs savings

Rapid reports influence:

• Therapy adjustment savings
  
• Therapeutic failure costs
  
• Microbial resistance costs 

Outcome: Rapid Information for Efficiency and Cost Containment

Excellent performance and rapid on-line information flow influences:

• Improved patient outcomes
  
• Early detection of nosocomial infections
  
• Detection of emerging resistances
  
• MIC-based epidemiology

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