Point-Of-Care Testing
Top in cardiology: Composite biomarker predicts risk; processed food and heart disease
A single combined measurement of three modifiable biomarkers can predict future cardiovascular events when measured in healthy women at midlife, according to research presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.
Point-of-care testing may expedite movement of patients with ACS from ED to cardiac ward
A bedside cardiac troponin test could reduce the time patients with ACS spend in the ED by nearly 45 minutes, with the availability of a doctor to assess the situation and move them to the cardiac ward, a speaker reported.
Prehospital rule-out of NSTEACS cost-effective vs. ED admission at 1 year
Prehospital rule-out of non-ST-segment elevation ACS with risk assessment and a single troponin test led to lower health care cost with similarly low 1-year outcomes vs. rule-out in the ED, results of the ARTICA trial show.
How necessary is point-of-care testing in dry eye disease management?
Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.
Point-of-care troponin may be safe, cost-saving method to rule out NSTEACS
Point-of-care troponin measurement by ambulance paramedics to rule out non-ST-elevation ACS in low-risk patients may reduce health care costs with similar 30-day adverse event risk vs. a direct-to-ED strategy, researchers reported.
Nephrology program directors report insufficient point-of-care ultrasound training
Nephrology program directors, fellows and select graduates report insufficient point-of-care ultrasound training, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.
Provider education, point-of-care antibody testing benefit patients with HCV
A range of interventions improved testing, linkage to care and treatment initiation in patients with hepatitis C, according to a study published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
Routine molecular point-of-care testing improves flu detection in hospitalized patients
Routine use of a molecular point-of-care test-and-treat strategy for influenza improved detection and other outcomes in patients admitted to the hospital, according to results of the FluPOC trial.
Routine point-of-care COVID-19 testing may reduce time to results, improve infection control
Rapid bedside testing is faster than standard centralized laboratory polymerase chain reaction testing for COVID-19 and may improve infection control in the hospital, according to data published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
90-minute COVID-19 test has high sensitivity, specificity
A rapid, 90-minute COVID-19 test was shown to have 94% sensitivity and 100% specificity, according to research published in Lancet Microbe.