Various tests must be provided to patients with diffuse symptoms, extending waiting times for lab results, overcrowding wards and delaying the provision of timely care to critical patients. Point ...

Abbott conducted an advisory board to hear the benefits and concerns surrounding HbA1c POCT from clinicians themselves. The faculty consisted of eight clinicians who recognised the benefits HbA1c POCT ...

The company, based outside of Grenoble in the French Alps, together with its partners has received €5 million to pursue the project.

The two-year project aims to make anemia screening more accessible on a global scale, particularly in low-resource areas with ...

Scientists are developing a portable sensor which would be capable of detecting skin cancers from chemicals released by the skin.The team from Bournemouth University (BU) and University Hospitals ...

Background A novel handheld point-of-care high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I analyser has recently been introduced to the ...

Testing at the point of care for viruses like MRSA or COVID-19 is incredibly interesting for the microfluidics industry. There are a number of options here to carry out these tests quickly and ...

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Portable point-of-care test kits can even be brought into nursing homes and patients’ own homes, to enable timely treatment of the frail and critically ill, where the risk of infection is lower.

Include all staff who might perform blood glucose testing at the point-of-care. If involved products are used infrequently, a table posted in areas where insulin is prepared might be helpful.

Point of care testing (POCT) enables rapid diagnostic tests to be performed while a patient is at a PoC facility, without the need for complex equipment or a wait of hours to days for reports from ...