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REGISTER TO D AY. www.aacc.org/2016am SCIENTIFIC MEETING & CLINICAL LAB EXPO 68T H AACC ANNUAL July 31 - August 4, 2016 Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia, PA • USA REGISTER BY JUNE 16 AND SAVE! More than 18,000 clinical laboratory innovators will convene in Philadelphia this year. Join them to experience education on the hottest scientific and practice areas in laboratory medicine while evaluating hundreds of new cutting-edge products that are transforming the lab and patient care. Immerse yourself in what’s now and what’s next. LABORATORY ng, slides delivery l interiors biology diagnostics our lab! well as a thin eco-friendly melamine resin film are applied on top and bot- tom of a wooden base plate. Colour-fast, high-temp and moisture resistant ‘Then, the different layers are pressed together under high pressure of 75 kg/cm² and temperature of approxi- mately 150°C, making the furnish- ings colour fast and light insensitive; moisture resistant and hence suitable for damp environments; resistant against high temperature and most chemicals; easy to clean and scratch and impact resistant.’ The firm also reports that its high- pressure laminate laboratory furni- ture ‘is coated with the antibacterial Sanitized coating, with silver ions, which kills 99.9% of bacteria within 24 hours’. The study, a joint project by the hospital research team and BD, is designed to evaluate how the new system combined with a newly developed imaging procedure can help to significantly speed up diag- nosis. The study will also show whether a fully automated lab solu- tion can handle the gigantic sample throughput in a microbiology lab of a top-tier hospital. At Heidelberg University Hospital every newly admitted patient who is considered likely to carry resistant pathogens is routinely tested. This group encom- passes patients transferred from care facilities, senior citizen homes, other hospitals or patients who had pre- viously stayed in countries where widespread resistances are reported – a total of 40,000 patients per year. Additionally, Heidelberg is present- ly conducting a large countrywide resistance-screening programme, which translates into around 8,000 specimens being processed and read every single day. Joint opening (from leftl): Silvia Hardenbol, Business Director Central Europe, BD Life Science, Diagnostic Sys­ tems, Patrick R. Murray, PhD, Sr. Director, Worldwide Scientific Affairs, BD Life Science, Diagnostic Systems, Irmtraut Gürkan, Commercial Director of the University Hospital Heidelberg, Prof. Klaus Heeg, Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Prof. Guido Adler, Medical Director. © University Hospital Heidelberg 19 www.healthcare-in-europe.com

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