33 Charts

MAY 30, 2024

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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Point-of-Care Testing Hospitals 97

ACEP Now

MARCH 9, 2025

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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Emergency Department Point-of-Care Testing Documentation/Coding Hospitals 95

Medagadget

AUGUST 4, 2023

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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Point-of-Care Testing Research Operations Hospitals 75

Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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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Emergency Department Pediatrics Point-of-Care Testing Hospitals 84

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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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Seizures Pediatrics Point-of-Care Testing Wellness 52

Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

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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Infectious Diseases Sepsis Emergency Department Point-of-Care Testing 90

Don't Forget the Bubbles

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

However, results may take some time and, as such, rapid point-of-care tests are increasingly used. Conventionally IV antibiotics have been limited to in-hospital use. It found that home treatment with intravenous ceftriaxone was not inferior to hospital treatment with intravenous flucloxacillin. Lancet Infect Dis.

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Emergency Department Infectious Diseases Pediatrics Sepsis 143