Prevantics Device Swab & Strip
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Description
Prevantics Device Swab is conveniently designed to help disinfect needleless access sites and helps improve ‘scrub the hub’ compliance to better protect against CLABSIs.
Our 3.15% Chlorhexidine Gluconate and 70% Isopropyl Alcohol Device Swab’s disinfecting formula, mechanical friction scrub, and fast 5-second scrub and 5-second dry times work together to help lower CLABSI rates. Prevantics Device Swab is available in two convenient formats, including a strip format for IV poles to ensure point-of-care accessibility.
Swab:
- Conveniently designed to help disinfect needleless access sites.
- Contains the first and only 3.15% Chlorhexidine Gluconate and 70% Isopropyl Alcohol formulation.
- Quick 5-second scrub time and 5-second dry time help with staff compliance.
- Intuitive prep-pad design.
- 1mL.
- Each box contains 100 swabs.
Strip:
- Hangs conveniently on an IV pole for point-of-care accessibility.
- 8 swabs per strip (each box contains 20 strips)
- Each strip comes with hang tab attached.
- Conveniently designed to help disinfect needleless access sites.
- Contains the first and only 3.15% Chlorhexidine Gluconate and 70% Isopropyl Alcohol formulation.
- Quick 5 second scrub time and 5 second dry time helps with staff compliance.
Features
- 5-second scrub time followed by 5-second dry time.
- Intuitive, easy-to-use prep pad format provides friction to remove microorganisms from grooves and threads of connectors.
- Effectively scrub the hub prior to and between each line access, as recommended in the Infusion Nurse Society (INS) Guidelines.
- Strip format hangs conveniently on an IV pole for point-of-care accessibility.
- Over 15 independent clinical studies demonstrating the clinical efficacy of Prevantics products.
- 3.15% (w/v) chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) and 70% (v/v) isopropyl alcohol (IPA).
- Achieved a >4.0 log10 reduction versus a leading alcohol-impregnated cap against 7 tested clinically relevant microorganisms known to cause CLABSIs.
- First and only 3.15% CHG/70% IPA swab to receive 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for disinfecting needleless access sites prior to use.
- Disinfecting needleless access sites (needleless connectors, injection ports, and access ports) and tops of blood culture collection bottles.
- Compliance: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Infusion Nurses Society; Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America; The Joint Commission; National Patient Safety Goals; Infectious Diseases Society of America; Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology; Association for Vascular Access.
Product Specifications
| Active Ingredients: | 3.15% Chlorhexidine Gluconate and 70% Isopropyl Alcohol |
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| Volume: | 1 mL |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Prevantics Device Swab is designed to disinfect needleless access sites (or to scrub the hub) prior to use as well as in between each line access. Prevantics Device Swab is used to scrub the access site for 5 seconds with drying of the access site for at least 5 seconds.
Not necessarily. If clinicians follow all existing infection prevention and control measures, such as hand hygiene, use of personal protective equipment, use of chlorhexidine-based skin antisepsis, etc. then the use of an alcohol impregnated cap may not be clinically indicated. This would be evaluated by ongoing surveillance of HAI rates.
The following evidence-based clinical guidelines support the use of Chlorhexidine Gluconate/Alcohol for disinfection of needleless access sites prior to use:
Prevantics Device Swab is used on needleless access sites which include ports, hubs, connectors, dialysis connectors, and blood collection applications. These needleless access sites are most commonly found in patients who require an IV (central line, mid-line, or peripheral line).
By using an antiseptic to disinfect the needleless access site, you are decreasing the risk of the patient acquiring a bloodstream infection (BSI) which can be fatal to the patient. According to the CDC, “Disinfection of the devices with Chlorhexidine /alcohol solution appears to be most effective in reducing colonization”.
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