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Articles and journal scans about Point-of-care testing
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May 2019
A tool for evaluating point-of-care tests
One of the most significant developments in laboratory medicine over the past few decades has been application of point-of-care testing (POCT). Technological advance allows an ever-increasing repertoire of in vitro diagnostic and monitoring tests to be performed outside the laboratory, at the patient’s bedside, in the ...
Point-of-care testing
Information management
Process optimization
Journal Scan
April 2019
Accurate assessment of calcium status in the critically ill requires measurement of ionized calcium rather than total calcium
Disturbance of blood calcium concentration is a common feature of many critical illnesses; prevalence studies suggest for example that 50-85 % of patients admitted to intensive/critical care have some degree of hypocalcemia (reduced blood calcium concentration). So monitoring and correction of blood calcium, where...
Point-of-care testing
Electrolytes
Journal Scan
October 2018
Early point-of-care testing in ED improves and speeds patient care
Decreased resources coupled with increased demand represents a major problem for healthcare providers that is most publicly manifest in overstretched hospital emergency room (ER) departments around the world. Prolonged waiting times and extended periods of overcrowding in ER, which are increasingly the norm, result in ...
Point-of-care testing
Process optimization
Information management
Journal Scan
June 2017
Blood glucose control in critically ill children
The physiological stress response to critical illness and trauma determines that transiently raised blood glucose (hyperglycemia) is common among those admitted to intensive care, irrespective of their diabetes status. Much research has been directed at establishing whether or not intensive insulin therapy aimed at...
Neonatology
Point-of-care testing
Glucose
Journal Scan
June 2017
Acid-base and electrolyte disorders in CKD – a review article
As the authors of this review article acknowledge, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing public health burden around the world. Recent study, cited by the authors, suggests an estimated 14 % of the US population are now diagnosed with CKD, and
0.2 % have end-stage renal disease (ESRD), the most severe presentation ...
Kidneys/fluids
Blood gases/acid-base
Point-of-care testing
Electrolytes
Creatinine/urea
Journal Scan
July 2015
Point of care testing – a review article
As the authors of a recent wide-ranging review of the subject make clear, point-of-care testing (POCT) has greatly expanded, in terms of both prevalence and functionality, over past decades. They report a predicted average growth rate in the use of POCT in the US of >15 % over the coming years.
The three authors (one ...
Point-of-care testing
Journal Scan
July 2015
Expanding the role of serum BNP and serum NT-proBNP measurement
Central laboratory or point-of-care testing of blood to determine natriuretic peptide (either BNP or N-terminal proBNP) concentration has a clinically established role in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with breathlessness; normal levels exclude a diagnosis of heart failure, a common cause of...
Natriuretic peptide
Point-of-care testing
Journal Scan
April 2015
A problem in sodium measurement addressed
The concentration of sodium (Na) in blood serum/plasma is determined by ion-specific electrode (ISE) technology that measures the physiologically important activity of sodium ions present in the aqueous (water) phase of plasma.
Two methods are available: direct ISE and indirect ISE. Direct ISE, which is employed in...
Point-of-care testing
Electrolytes