Emergency department point-of-care-testing solutions
Get the critical information you need fast - in the ED
Empower your ED with certainty
As an ED professional, you deal with uncertainty every day. Patients with diffuse symptoms require various tests, which can result in long waiting times for lab results causing overcrowding and potentially delaying timely care for your most critical patients.
Point-of-care testing (POCT) can be an asset in the emergency department, helping to speed up diagnosis and treatment processes while reducing contingencies and process costs. [1,2,3]
Radiometer, specialists in blood gas and acute care diagnostics since 1954, delivers comprehensive and connected ED POCT solutions to support fast clinical decision-making in the ED.
How you can accelerate patient flow in the ED
Whether you send the patient home or on for further treatment, ED point-of-care testing speeds up turnaround time and helps you accelerate patient flow.
Assess kidney function
Creatinine results at the point of care can help you identify patients at risk of acute kidney injury (AKI). Quickly assess your patient's kidney status before CT or MRI scans to determine if there’s a risk of contrast-induced nephropathy. [4] Also, creatinine and urea results can help you assess dehydration as well as gastrointestinal bleeding. [5,6]
Make timely diagnoses of MI, heart failure and other critical conditions
The ability to rule in or rule out critical conditions without waiting for lab results can help mitigate overcrowding in the ED. With reliable results from point-of-care analysers in the ED, you can make timely diagnoses of conditions like myocardial infarction, heart failure, respiratory failure, pulmonary embolism and sepsis—without waiting for lab results.
By measuring ßhCG, you can also determine if the patient is pregnant at the point of care and thereby avoid medical procedures that may potentially harm the fetus.
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Discover how the Radiometer ED POCT solution supports certainty in the ED
Point-of-care testing has the potential to reduce turn-around time in critical care situations. [1,7]
Comprehensive and connected, the Radiometer ED point-of-care testing (POCT) solution can help reduce turnaround time by giving you reliable results at the point of care with:
ABL90 FLEX PLUS blood gas analyser
safePICO samplers
AQT90 FLEX immunoassay analyser
AQURE POC IT solution
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Patient safety is at the center of everything we do and determines the procedures, our activities and all other actions performed in the ED.
- Axel Plessmann, ED Director DRK-Krankenhaus Sömmerda
Read the scientific articles on acutecaretesting.org
- Procalcitonin used in the emergency room by Alain Viallon
- Point-of-care cardiac markers in the Emergency Department are safe, reduce admissions and do not impact the 4-hour target by James Griffiths, Julian Humphrey
- POCT in emergency rooms: One key factor for process streamlining with Lean Management by Verena Stockfisch
- Decentralised clinical biochemistry - introducing point-of-care testing to the emergency environment by Patrick Plaisance
References
1. Larsson A et al. The state of point of care testing: a european perspective. Ups J Med Sci 2015; 120,1: 1-10.
2. Von Eiff W et al. POCT-Management. Klinische und Ökonomische Effekte. Heidelberg: Medhochswei verlag
2013; 189-192.
3. Smith et al., Preanalytical Errors in Point-of-Care Testing Auditing Errors of Patient Identification in the Use of Blood Gas Analyzers, Point of Care, Volume 10, Number 4, December 2011
4. Salvagno et al, Analytical evaluation of Radiometer ABL90 FLEX PLUS enzymatic creatinine assay, Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine. Published: 06 August 2019.
5. Higgins, C, Urea and the clinical value of measuring blood urea concentration, August 2016, https://acutecaretesting.org/en/articles/urea-and-the-clinical-value-of-measuring-blood-urea-concentration
6. Higgins, C, Urea and creatinine concentration, the urea:creatinine ratio, October 2016, https://acutecaretesting.org/en/articles/urea-and-creatinine-concentration-the-urea-creatinine-ratio
7. Nørgaard B, Mogensen CB. Blood sample tube transportation system versus point of care technology in an ED; effect on time from collection to reporting? A randomized trial. SJTREM 2012; 20, 71.
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