Point‐of‐care testing in an organ procurement organization donor management setting

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Abstract: Purpose:  Our organ procurement organization (OPO) evaluated the clinical and financial efficacy of point‐of‐care testing (POCT) in management of our deceased organ donors. Methods: Before we implemented point‐of care testing with the i‐STAT into routine clinical donor management, we compared the i‐STAT result with the result from the respective donor hospital lab (DHL) for certain analytes on 15 consecutive donors in our OPO from 26 March to 14 May 2001. The financial impact was studied by reviewing 77 donors from July 2001 to March 2002. Results: There was a strong correlation for each analyte between the POC and DHL test results with r‐values as follows: pH 0.86; PCO2 = 0.96; PO2 = 0.98; sodium = 0.98; potassium = 0.95; chloride = 0.94; BUN = 0.98; glucose = 0.92; haematocrit = 0.87 and creatinine = 0.95. Since our OPO coordinators began using i‐STAT in their …

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2003

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