With a soft, directional tip, HALYARD* Mini-BAL Catheter allows safe and quick retrieval of lower respiratory tract samples, which can help avoid the false negatives and false positives seen in an estimated 23% of endotracheal aspirate cultures. ² These secretions from the distal airway can help identify infectious pathogens of the lung for a microbiologically confirmed diagnosis.

Since 2001, over 200,000 HALYARD* Mini-BAL Catheters have been produced, showing a history of safe use.

• Can be performed bedside in minutes by trained respiratory therapist or other trained clinicians
• Directional tip allows right or left lung sampling
• Maintains PEEP when used with supplied ventilator adapter
• Features a soft, cushioned, radiopaque tip for safe sampling from the lower lung

Equips physicians with the power to target antibiotic treatment and reduce antibiotic use and healthcare costs

Nonbronchoscopic BAL enables physicians to reduce unnecessary antibiotics, discontinuing antibioticuse an estimated 21.5% of the time as a result of the nonbronchoscopic BAL procedure being performed, ³ leading to reduction in antibiotic use and healthcare costs. ³ With this power of targeted treatment, HALYARD* Mini-BAL Catheter can help you in the fight to protect your patients from ventilator-associated pneumonia.

• The nonbronchoscopic BAL procedure has been shown to help target or de-escalate antibiotic therapy in an estimated 60.7% of patients receiving initial broad spectrum therapy.
• Bronchoscopic sampling utilizing a protected specimen brush and nonbronchoalveolar lavage shows good overall agreement among quantitative cultures.
• Convenient HALYARD* Mini-BAL Prep Pack includes all accessories needed to quickly perform nonbronchoscopic BAL at the bedside

"An accurate microbiological diagnosis of VAP is likely to be the key element in ensuring appropriate antibiotic coverage [and] limiting the use and duration of empirically prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotics." ^2,4