Background: Haemoglobin measurement in antenatal care can help timely detection and treatment of anaemia, which is a major contributory factor to maternal mortality developing countries. The transport samples for haemoglobin assessment may delay the treatment, resulting preventable deaths. by point testing (POCT) devices easy, quick less invasive. There are very few studies compare capillary bl...

BACKGROUND Point-of-care testing (POCT) systems enable a wide range of tests to be rapidly performed at the bedside and have attracted increasing interest in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, previous studies comparing the concordance of POCT with central laboratory testing have reported divergent findings. Most reported studies on POCT reliability have focused on analyzer performance rat...

Background: Approximately 1 in 5 Canadians with HIV are unaware of their status. In many provinces and especially rural communities, barriers to HIV testing include lack of access, privacy concerns, and stigma. The availability of HIV point-of-care testing (POCT) is limited across Canada. Pharmacists are well positioned to address barriers by offering rapid HIV POCT and facilitating linkage to ...

Background To determine patient priority and degree of urgency with an objective high-quality evaluation, general Point of Care testing (POCT) was established as a novel facility in the Emergency department at Holbæk Hospital. The hardware consists of AQT-90 Flex (CRP, D-dimer), ABL-800 (Na, K, Hgb, BG etc.) and HemoCue (Leukocytes), thus rendering useful parameters within initial assessment. A...

We present the design and procedures for implementing a parallel optical coherence tomography (POCT) imaging system that can be adapted to an endoscopic format. The POCT system consists of a single mode fiber (SMF) array with multiple reduced diameter (15 microm) SMFs in the sample arm with 15 microm center spacing between fibers. The size of the array determines the size of the transverse imag...

BACKGROUND The management of childhood infections remains inadequate in resource-limited countries, resulting in high mortality and irrational use of antimicrobials. Current disease management tools, such as the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) algorithm, rely solely on clinical signs and have not made use of available point-of-care tests (POCTs) that can help to identify child...

OBJECTIVES Investigate agreement between lipid pathology results from point-of-care testing (PoCT) devices and laboratories. DESIGN AND METHODS Agreement was assessed using the Bland-Altman method. RESULTS : Mean difference (limits of agreement) were: -0.28 mmol/L (-1.04, 0.48) for total cholesterol, -0.09 mmol/L, (-0.55, 0.36) for HDL-C. Median difference (nonparametric limits of agreement...

INTRODUCTION In the developed world, Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the most important cause of nosocomial infectious diarrhea. In addition to providing epidemiological data and helping to indicate that a local outbreak may be occurring, laboratory tests are used to augment clinical decisions on individual patients. Very rarely do diagnostic tests provide results at the point of decis...

In article number 20210003, Guozhen Liu, Cheng Jiang and their co-workers demonstrates that cytokines are signalling molecules between cells in immune system, indicators of our body conditions. Cytokine storm can result disease severity major-organ damage. Point-of-Care (POCT) testing will provide clinical significance early-diagnosis management. With the aid nanobiotechnology, engineering arti...