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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2018
Kurin, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Bobby E. Rogers, San Diego, CA (US);
Gino Kang, San Diego, CA (US);
David Karl Stroup, San Diego, CA (US);
Jonas Dean Cochran, Santee, CA (US);
Arthur Deptala, Santee, CA (US);
John Detloff, San Diego, CA (US);
Lonnie Pogue, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian Macowski, San Diego, CA (US);
Chad Garrett, San Diego, CA (US);
Kurin, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Blood sample optimization systems and methods are described that reduce or eliminate contaminates in collected blood samples, which in turn reduces or eliminates false positive readings in blood cultures or other testing of collected blood samples. A blood sample optimization system can include a blood sequestration device located between a patient needle and a sample needle. The blood sequestration device can include a sequestration chamber for sequestering an initial, potentially contaminated aliquot of blood, and may further include a sampling channel that bypasses the sequestration chamber to convey likely uncontaminated blood between the patient needle and the sample needle after the initial aliquot of blood is sequestered in the sequestration chamber.