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January 29, 2012
Cook's Central Venous Catheters to Be Marketed With Cardinal Health's Presource Procedural Kits
January 30, 2012—Cardinal Health (Dublin, OH) and Cook Medical (Bloomington, IN) announced a 2-year, exclusive agreement for the North American distribution of Cook Medical's central venous catheter (CVC) sets with Cardinal Health's Presource customizable procedural kit.
Under the agreement, Cardinal Health and Cook Medical will provide CVC procedural kits with either uncoated or Cook Spectrum CVC sets, which feature high flow rates and a comprehensive product line including power-injectable catheters. The companies stated that the partnership enables a cost-effective means to decrease the number of supplies needed to supplement standard CVC procedural kits.
Cook Medical's Spectrum catheters are impregnated with the antibiotics minocycline and rifampin and meet the newly released 1A recommendation from the US Centers for Disease Control for reducing catheter-related bloodstream infections if maximal sterile barrier precautions have not helped a facility reach its infection prevention goal. Spectrum catheters have been shown to be five times less likely to produce infection than nonimpregnated catheters, stated the companies.
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