Antimicrobial Catheter

The ARROWg+ ard Blue® antimicrobial catheter consists of an Arrow® standard polyurethane catheter with Blue FlexTip®, plus an external surface treatment using antimicrobials, chlorhexidine acetate and silver sulfadiazine.

•  The ARROWg+ ard technology is intended to provide protection against catheter-related bloodstream infections.
•  A prospective randomized clinical trial of 403 catheter insertions in adult patients in a medical-surgical ICU showed antimicrobial catheters were 50% less likely to be colonized than control catheters (p=0.003) and 80% less likely to produce catheter related bacteremia (p=0.02).