With COVID-19 unexpectedly halting everything last year, laboratories around the world have this unspoken joint responsibility to come up with solutions that will help end the global threat. As a trusted distributor of lab essentials, SECO is proud to carry highly valued products, including those manufactured by Beckton-Dickinson (BD), that play a big role in the fight against the current pandemic. Check out these content snippets from one of our reliable partners, BD, on how their products are supporting the global COVID-19 response.
Mobilizing to combat this pandemic
As one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world, BD is deploying our capabilities, expertise and scale to address critical health needs related to coronavirus—from our diagnostic offerings to identify COVID-19, to real-time informatics and electronic surveillance technology, to essential medical devices to support patient care.
BD Capabilities - Responding to crisis with action
Declared a global pandemic in March 2020, the rapid spread of COVID-19 has overwhelmed health systems and severely strained ICU capacity in hospitals. Explore how we are activating to answer the demands caused by this virus.
Diagnose
Expand access to COVID-19 diagnostic testing by collaborating with U.S. government agencies and molecular diagnostic companies, as well as validating alternate collection approaches.
Care
Support patient management by facilitating complex care of critically ill patients, and providing critical devices and training to expand access to care.
Monitor
Leverage informatics to track and report essential data to health agencies and providers, including near real-time insights on disease incidence, hospital utilization and capacity, and patient outcomes.
BD Solutions - Supporting patients across the continuum of care
Diagnose - Specimen Collection
Swabs, saline, UVT medium vials and UVT kits
Used for the collection and transport of clinical specimens, including viruses.
BD universal viral transport system
BD flocked swabs
Collection sets, tubes and lancets
Used to collect blood samples for serology and blood culture tests.
BD Vacutainer® UltraTouch™ push button blood collection set
BD Vacutainer® blood collection tubes
BD Microtainer® contact-activated lancet
Direct access sampling devices
Used to facilitate blood sample collection from hospitalized patients who have existing access lines.
BD Luer-Lok™ Syringe
Care - Drug Delivery
PICCs, midlines, PIVCs and needle-free connectors
Used to deliver drugs required for treatment.
BD IV catheters
BD MaxZero™ needle-free connector
PowerPICC™ Provena™ Catheter
Needles and syringes
Used to administer medications required for treatment, as well as vaccination.
BD safety needles and syringes
BD conventional needles and syringes
BD pre-filled flush syringes
Prefillable devices
Used by the pharmaceutical industry to provide drugs and vaccines in ready-to-administer formats for speed and patient safety.
Drug delivery solutions
Aside from Specimen Collection and Drug Delivery, BD also provides products for Diagnostic Testing, Medication Management, Critical Care, and Informatics. Visit their COVID-19 Response page to learn more about these.
Want to Stock-up on BD Lab Essentials?
SECO showcases a wide variety of BD products highly recommended for specimen collection and drug delivery. Find BD™ Universal Viral Transport Combo Kits for trusted collection of clinical specimen and viruses as well as BD™ Sterile Allergy Syringes and BD™ Tuberculin Syringes for proper administration of medications. If you need BD bioreagents, microbilogy media, collection containers and more, shop and browse them all here.