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The Opportunity of Scarcity in Healthcare

33 Charts

Clean point-of-care testing based on molecular and marker diagnosis. These tests will be optimized to deliver a high value, competitive product. If you like this post, check out the Patient Experience and Hospitals Archive. Or, in many cases, just a guess.

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Waiting Room Medicine: The Ethical Conundrum

ACEP Now

As hospital boarding, increased emergency department (ED) volumes, and complexity of patients have increased, so have wait times. After years of training to fully undress a patient for an exam at ABEM General Hospital, patients may now routinely be treated in street clothes sitting in a hallway chair.

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Gravity-Driven Microfluidics for Low-Cost Diagnostics

Medagadget

Some of the people poised to gain most from this revolution in miniaturization live in low-resource areas, with no easy access to hospitals and clinics. “You could theoretically even just use a handsaw and cut the channels needed for the test into a piece of wood.”

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You don’t need labs or CT scans in children who have recovered after a simple febrile or first time seizure

PEMBlog

The sodium, calcium, and potassium can be checked in settings with access to rapid point-of-care testing. Electrolytes Think about hyponatremia or hypernatremia (especially at <125 or >160, respectively), hypocalcemia, hypo/hyperkalemia, hypomagnesemia, or hypophosphatemia.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

In a small study involving 79 hospitalized children, PCT was found to be elevated in bacterial infections, with a decrease after appropriate antibiotic therapy, and decreased in viral infections [24]. Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care tests in acute community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections. 2021.09.025.

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Choosing Wisely – Viral Respiratory Panels in children with respiratory symptoms

Don't Forget the Bubbles

There may be a role in viral respiratory panels for children admitted to the hospital or intensive care unit. Of note, during COVID-19 , some hospitals used RVPs to differentiate patients who had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 from other viral infections. Principles for high-quality, high-value testing. cystic fibrosis).

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Bubble Wrap PLUS – June 2023

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The Bubble Wrap Plus is a monthly paediatric journal club reading list from Anke Raaijmakers, working with Professor Jaan Toelen and his team at the University Hospitals in Leuven. Acute kidney injury in infants hospitalized for viral bronchiolitis. Can’t get enough of Bubble Wrap? Wittmann S, et al. Eur J Pediatr. Eur J Pediatr.