In the intensive care unit (ICU), rapid changes in a patient's condition often necessitate
biochemical monitoring with diagnostic laboratory tests and an immediate response. The …

In the last 50 years, clinical laboratories have become larger and more centralized, owing to
the development of large, high-volume, batch-oriented analyzers that can perform …

Point-of-care testing (POCT) refers to testing performed outside the clinical laboratory near
the patient or at the site of patient care. This could be in critical care settings like the …

Point-of-Care Testing: Millennium Technology for Critical Care Page 1 LABORATORY
MEDICINE VOLUME 31, NUMBER 7 JULY 2000 402 Laboratory test results are often pivotal to …

The critically ill patient frequently experiences acute electrolyte, acid-base, cardiac,
hematologic, and coagulation disorders. Laboratory evaluation of these changes is critical to …

Point of care testing (POCT) is an area of medical technology that has been growing rapidly
over the past decade. As new devices and equipment become available, new questions of …

Ongoing changes in medical practice, reimbursement, and technology have produced a
rapidly evolving trend in laboratory medicine-namely, point-of-care testing (POCT). Both the …

Technological advancements have, for the first time, made the entire laboratory testing
process feasible at the bedside. Physicians working in the intensive care unit have always …

To quote Alain Mérieux,“without diagnostics, medicine is blind.” The paradox is that only 2%
of total healthcare costs go towards in vitro diagnostics but 60% of treatment decisions are …

Laboratory medicine represents one of the most technology-driven fields of medicine using
and de-ploying a wide variety of measurement approaches and systems. Indeed, over the …