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The corporate website includes broad information about Cerus, resources for investors, and career opportunities.INTERCEPT-USA.com
For residents of the United States – Blood centers and transfusion services will find topics related to the production of pathogen reduced products.hcpnew.cerus.com
For residents of the United States – Hospital blood banks and healthcare practitioners will find content related to clinical topics, implementation, and education.INTERCEPT-Canada.com
For residents of Canada – Specific information for pathogen reduced platelets and plasma including package inserts.INTERCEPTBloodSystem.com
Visitors in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia or Latin America will find information about pathogen inactivated platelets and plasma.INTERCEPT-Cryoprecipitation.com
For residents of the United States – Learn more about the INTERCEPT® Blood System for Cryoprecipitation for the manufacturing of Pathogen Reduced Cryoprecipitated Fibrinogen Complex.
INTERCEPT® Blood System for Platelets Pathogen Reduction System
INTENDED USE
The INTERCEPT Blood System for Platelets is intended to be used for ex vivo preparation of pathogen-reduced Amicus aphresis platelet components suspended in 65% PAS-3/35% plasma, and Trima aphresis platelet components suspended in 100% plasma in order to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted infection (TTI), including sepsis, and as an alternative to gamma irradiation for prevention of transfusion-associated graft versus host disease (TA-GVHD).
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Contraindicated for preparation of platelet components intended for patients with a history of hypersensitivity reaction to amotosalen or other psoralens. Contraindicated for preparation of platelet components intended for neonatal patients treated with phototherapy devices that emit a peak energy wavelength less than 425 nm, or have a lower bound of the emission bandwidth <375 nm, due to the potential for erythema resulting from interaction between ultraviolet light and amotosalen.
WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS
Only INTERCEPT Processing Sets for platelets are approved for use in the INTERCEPT Blood System. Use only the INTERCEPT INT100 Illuminator for UVA illumination of amotosalen-treated platelet components. No other source of UVA light may be used. Please refer to the Operator’s Manual for the INT100 Illuminator. Discard any platelet components not exposed to the complete INT100 illumination process. Tubing components and container ports of the INTERCEPT Blood System contain polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) is known to be released from PVC medical devices, and increased leachjing can occur with extended storage or increased surface area contact. Blood components will be in contact with PVC for a brief period of time (approx. 15 minutes) during processing. The risks associated with DEHP released into the blood components must be weighed against the benefits of therapeutic transfusion.