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Equip your lab to meet current and future needs with the modular, flexible and scalable BD Kiestra™ Lab Automation Solutions
Is your laboratory able to adapt to new challenges?
With increasing testing volumes, staff shortages and the need to consolidate testing processes, you may be wondering how your current solution is going to deliver the quality that you need to remain efficient. How do you stay consistent, productive, flexible and financially efficient, all without comprising quality?
An automated solution that adapts to your laboratory
Automated solutions can help you address these laboratory challenges. Laboratory automation can enhance laboratory operations, maximise financial efficiencies, and advance laboratory outcomes.1,2
The modular, flexible and scalable BD Kiestra™ Laboratory Automation Solutions work with the flow of your laboratory and its evolving needs, bringing scalable, track connected and standalone automated microbiology technology to inoculation, incubation, plate reading and preparation of follow-up testing.
Combined with informatics and partnered services, BD Kiestra™ Solutions can accompany you in designing, and delivering customisable, best-in-class laboratory automation solutions tailored to your laboratory's specific needs.
Automating your laboratory's most challenging processes with the BD Kiestra™ can help you:
Enhance laboratory operations2
Improve staff efficiency while reducing risk of error, generating accurate results faster and adapting to testing volume growth1-4
Maximise financial efficiencies1
Manage labour costs and laboratory expenditures with increased efficiency and reduced errors2
Advance laboratory outcomes1,2
Improve end-to-end quality and accuracy for more confidence in treatment guidance1,4,5
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Elevate to modular, flexible and scalable automation with BD Kiestra™ Solutions
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BD Kiestra™ IdentifA
Powered by BD Synapsys™ informatics solution, the BD Kiestra™ IdentifA automates the preparation of BD™ Bruker MALDI Biotyper® CA System target, which may provide greater efficiency by reducing labor and processing errors*
Digital colony marking
Liquid level-sensing technologies detect that the pipette had made contact with the sample material.
Plate identification and orientation
Barcode-driven plate orientation confirming colony coordinates.
Pipette tip calibration
Calibrated pipette tips support accuracy and precision for colony picking and spotting.
Level sensing and colony picking depth
Colony-level sensing through conductive pipette tips.
Mucoid strain detection and processing
Activate mucoid strain detection, cutting, and processing.
McFarland suspension creation
Isolate suspension created in 300 µl of deionised water.
* For more information on our BD Kiestra™ IdentifA, please refer to the user manuals, available on eIFU-Global (bd.com)
BD Kiestra™ ReadA
Powered by BD Synapsys™ Microbiology Informatics Solution, the smart BD Kiestra™ ReadA Incubation and Imaging System provides closed-door incubation and high throughput imaging, delivering accuracy and standardized digital image acquisition.
- Four input to manually load plates
- Load stacks of inoculated plates
- Connect to track solution to automatically move plates to and from the incubator
- Each incubator comes with four output stackers
- Each stacker can be configured to specific tasks, such as:
- Waste handling
- Follow-up work
- External incubation
- Barcoded for full traceability
- The plate protocol will direct:
- Incubation condition
- Incubation duration
- Imaging times
- All plates are stored individually and are easily accessible
- Dedicated and single purpose lanes for plate infeed, outfeed and imaging
- Rapid plate delivery or imaging upon user request
- Closed-door incubation enables constant temperature and stable CO₂ or O₂ levels
- Laminar air flow to help prevent plate dehydration
- Removable plate racks for easy cleaning
- User safety through closed lid incubation and transportation
- HEPA filtered camera area to reduce risk of (cross) contamination
- High throughput imaging (up to 300 plates per hour)
*For more information on our BD Kiestra™ ReadA, please refer to the user manuals, available on eIFU-Global (bd.com)
BD Kiestra™ Imaging Application
Powered by BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution, the BD Kiestra™ Imaging Applications for Urine and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) samples helps improve workflow efficiency and enhances quality by providing standardised, diagnostically-relevant images for laboratory interpretation.
| Features | BD Kiestra™ UCA | BD Kiestra™ MRSA |
|---|---|---|
| Batch or automatic reporting of sterile plates or those with clinically non-significant growth based on user-defined growth threshold | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Notification if growth between 10 to 14H | ✔️ | |
| Presumptive ID*: Based on the colour of the colonies grown on BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ Orientation media | ✔️ | |
| Colour recognition: Growth detected on BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ MRSA II medium will help to enable mauve colour growth detection for MRSA without confirmation testing** | ✔️ | |
| Growth quantification (5 groups CFU/ml) and culture pre-qualification (pure, predominant or mixed) | ✔️ | |
| Expert rules: Standardised reading and interpretation, based on patient demographics and test results history | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Organised reading and interpretation steps using intuitive worklists | ✔️ | ✔️ |
*Only for pure and predominant growth on BD BBL™ CHROMagar™ Orientation media
**For nasal specimens
Detailed plate views of true-to-life digital images, with AI-generated growth scores and presumptive IDs, allow technicians to make timely and informed decisions. Illustrative worklists. They can be fully customised depending on lab workflow and data flow.
Benefit from CE-IVDR AI-trained BD Kiestra™ Imaging Applications to facilitate implementation and verification. While the CE-IVDR certification ensuring consistent and proven performances, with our help, you can focus on defining the most relevant expert rules to timely start the routine use.
*For more information on our BD Kiestra™ Imaging applications, please refer to the user manuals, available on eIFU-Global (bd.com)
BD Kiestra™ Total Lab Automation
From sample processing to results reporting, the BD Kiestra™ Total Lab Automation (TLA) System offers a complete microbiology laboratory automation solution that:
- Automates the end-to-end workflow to free up your staff, from plate labelling, inoculation and incubation to imaging, reading and results reporting.
- Delivers flexibility, modularity and upgradability to your laboratory’s layout and workflow, today and in the future.
- Eliminates bottlenecks and reduces hands-on time with a track-based configuration that automatically advances plates and eliminates manual sorting.
BD Kiestra™ InoquIA
Unique sample processor for both liquid and non-liquid samples to standardise inoculation and streaking processes, reduce rework and subcultures, and generate more discrete colonies¹
Minimise false negative no growth results during inoculation in FA mode
Liquid level-sensing technologies detect that the pipette had made contact with the sample material
Cloat and foam sensors detect that the sample is aspirated with the correct volume
Positive dispense verification technology helps to ensure the sample is inoculated onto plated and broths in FA modeHelp minimise the risk of cross contamination during plate handling and streaking
Sample processing with HEPA filter protection
Closed lid streaking may minimise aerosols from escaping during plate streaking
The Class II-like biosafety cabinet helps minimise contamination during SA mode processing through negative air pressure during inoculationDive deeper into BD Kiestra™ Lab Automation Solutions
Learn more about how the BD Kiestra™ can boost your laboratory with modular, flexible and scalable automation in our brochure.
How to seamlessly integrate the BD Kiestra™ into your workflow
The streamlined, smart and scalable BD Synapsys™
BD Synapsys™, our web-based laboratory informatics solution, provides centralised connectivity throughout your lab automation workflow for integrated accessibility, flexibility and ease of use.
With real-time, browser-based dashboards customisable to your needs, the secure-by-design BD Synapsys™ gives you seamless data exchange capabilities to help enhance operational outcomes across microbiology pathway, supported by:
- Integrated and streamlined workflow
- Standardised and automated protocols and decision making
- Traceability and security
- Data consolidation and remote management
- Analytics and continuous improvement
Top-notch security
Simplified IT environment
Smart and integrated data flow
Scalable and flexible interface
Secure IT environment
- Ensures compliance with IT and security regulations, including GDPR requirements
- Offers robust security measures, including encryption and authentication, to protect sensitive data
- Automatically backs up data and can be recovered in cases of data loss or system failure
- Guarantees traceability of each step, from inoculation to result report executed in and out of the lab (satellite sites)
* For more information on our BD Synapsys™, please refer to the user manuals, available on eIFU-Global (bd.com)
Supported by BD Professional Services
Our experts at BD Professional Services partner with you to add more value into your laboratory by designing, delivering and optimising your lab automation solution, supporting a seamless, integrated microbiology pathway. Our range of tailored training and services include:
- On-site assessment (environment analysis) including workflow and IT analysis
- Solution design including solution technical assessment and lab integration assessment
- Solution implementation service including project management, change management and educational services
- Continuous support and improvement with technical services, data analysis and workflow optimisation
"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got."
-Henry Ford
Lab automation project qualification
Solution design
Solution delivery: Project management
Solution delivery: Installation
Solution delivery: Implementation
Long-term partnership
On-site evaluation
An immerse, on-site analysis with BD consultants, known as a "day-in-your-life" evaluation, to understand your lab's environment and needs to tailor the right solution for you.
Our team studies your processes, schedules and data, focused on identifying specific opportunities for improvement and barriers to success.
Preliminary configuration
Our experts leverage their knowledge and lab simulation tool, to provide an objective recommendation of an initial solution configuration with actionable insights based on the on-site assessment.
See how the BD Kiestra™ has elevated diagnostics in your region
Hear from BD Kiestra™ users
Discover the power of modular automation from regional labs and how the BD Kiestra™ has impacted microbiology workflows across the region.
Learn how the Institute for Medical Diagnostics (IMD) Laboratory in Frankfurt, Germany transformed their manual processes with the BD Kiestra™ to help ensure consistency in sample processes.
Dive into the experience of Oriade Noviale Laboratories in Grenoble, France, where they utilise BD Kiestra™ Total Lab Automation to address higher sample volumes while maintaining quality.
From theory to practice :
Compared to manual processes, inoculation automation results in...2**
More reproducible results with automated streaking methods
Higher number of discrete colonies
Reduced costs through fewer samples that need to be recultured for ID/AST
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