The integrated BD bloodstream infection solution addresses your identification and susceptibility testing needs with speed, accuracy and efficiency, by offering both extensive pathogen testing solutions and fast identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing options for critically ill patients.1-3
The BD Phoenix™ automated identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (ID/AST) system supports your bloodstream infection diagnostic pathway by standardizing workflows and providing timely and accurate detection of known and emerging antimicrobial resistance that supports your antimicrobial stewardship efforts.3-10
In addition to the compact and modular BD Phoenix™ M50 Automated Microbiology System, the BD Phoenix™ family of products includes a sample preparation instrument for standardizing inoculum. Lastly, an extensive portfolio of panels, broths, reagents and accessories complete the BD Phoenix™ offering.
BD Phoenix™ AP Instrument
The BD Phoenix™ AP sample preparation instrument is your automated solution for inoculum preparation.
The BD Phoenix™ AP Instrument automates human processes, decreasing technologist time and labor to prepare the panels, standardizing inoculum preparation and incorporating automated nephelometry.9,10
BD Phoenix™ M50 Automated Microbiology System
With an extensive panel well count and antimicrobial offering, true doubling dilutions, and extended dilutions for lower breakpoints, the BD Phoenix™ M50 System marries performance with ease of use to provide the timely and accurate pathogen identification and susceptibility results that clinicians need to help guide their therapy and patient management decisions.3-8
In addition to accurately confirming known resistance, the BD Phoenix™ M50 System has demonstrated performance in detecting newly emerging resistance to antimicrobials that historically have been susceptible.3,4
BD Phoenix™ Panels
BD Phoenix™ panels require no refrigeration, are leak resistant and are available in a variety of formats including identification-only, susceptibility-only, and combination identification and susceptibility panels.
BD Phoenix™ panels provide accurate, rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing results for most clinically significant aerobic and facultative anaerobic Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, as well as identification of yeast and yeast-like organisms.
BD Phoenix™ Reagents, Broths, and Accessories
For added convenience, BD offers a range of accessories, broths, and reagents for use with the BD Phoenix™ Automated Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing System.
BD PhoenixSpec™ Nephelometer
The BD PhoenixSpec™ Nephelometer is a portable device that measures the turbidity of microbial suspensions used in specimen preparation.