stat lab

Lab medicine A free-standing lab capable of performing an abbreviated battery of tests, and serving as a receiving 'node' for a larger lab to which the SL is ultimately responsible; SLs are intended to ↓ Pt length of hospital stay, ↓ turnaround time, ↑ Pt convenience, ↑ physician–client satisfaction, ↓ costs

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With Visiun's support, Vanessa is seeking a lab who can donate a waived chemistry analyzer to help build a small STAT lab in her crisis-stricken home country of Venezuela.

Networking at KnowledgeLab 2019

My first assignment was in the Chemistry section of the STAT lab after I had graduated the Basic Medical Laboratory Course.

Are you paying attention?

Department goods issued as per HIS (Rs.) (Rs.) 1 Microbiology 18,63,801.23 43,24,655.00 2 Endocrinology 35,41,058.82 31,31,485.00 3 Gastroenterology 12,28,303.91 29,77,250.00 4 Pathology 34,75,678.43 2,02,37,590.00 5 Transfusion Med 25,26,203.59 1,24,93,775.00 6 Radiodiagnosis 28,81,630.00 82,94,000.00 7 Medical Genetics 12,87,693.48 34,04,370.00 8 Nephrology 7,36,967.65 13,24,560.00 9 Immunology 17,28,983.14 16,32,700.00 10 Urology 2,05,938.33 3,19,200.00 11 Nuclear Medicine 17,57,730.88 23,21,400.00 12 Radiotherapy 52,908.00 22,14,850.00 13 Haematology 4,30,353.90 9,150.00 14 Stat Lab 8,75,551.18 27,22,155.00 15 Endo Surgery 68,933.56 47,000.00 16 Anaesthesia 0.00 0.00 17 Neurology 0.00 0.00 18 Blood Collection 1,42,891.95 -- Gross Total 2,28,04,628.05 6,54,54,140.00 SI.

Self-sustainability and cost containment in a super-specialty hospital--case study of investigation revolving fund (IRF)

The goal of the TQM study was to reduce the TAT of the Stat lab tests, currently 60 minutes from the time they are ordered.

The application of TQM in a hospital's casualty and pathology departments

The cobas MRSA/SA test is designed to support rapid screening and surveillance of MRSA & SA known causes of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), for use in emergency rooms, intensive care units and STAT lab settings.

Switzerland : Roche expands cobas Liat PCR System menu with launch of cobas MRSA/SA test to target healthcare-associated infections

He worked with the STAT lab, perfusionists, information technologists, and physicians to map the workflow at the 403-bed hospita1.

Optimizing blood gas testing

Purchaser invites Tenders for analytical instruments for both the Central laboratory (CENTRAL LAB) at Hringbraut and the STAT laboratory (STAT LAB) in Fossvogur, purchase of consumables and services as specified in the Tender specifications for the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at the LandspE[degrees]tali University Hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Automatic pre- and post analytical processing equipments

"There is no need for a follow up." Another result of additional POCTs was the hospital's ability to eliminate its STAT lab. "Running a STAT lab is not cheap because it has to run 24 hours a day," Melnick says.

Hospital lauds its point-of-care testing success

The indicator not only allows notification of STATs coming through the tube system, the process helps get STAT lab results to needed areas.

A common goal worlds apart: determination to help patients marks MLO's 2008 Medical Laboratory of the Year winners

Sturtevant adds, "The method described could not be used to compare a reference laboratory to a STAT lab or to a hospital lab due to the different missions, test mix, and acuity of service needs.

Productivity measure

Focusing first on the cardiovascular operating room (CVOR), Jones worked with all the stakeholders--the STAT lab, perfusionists, IT, physicians--to map the current process at Geisinger Medical Center, a 403-bed hospital in Danville.

Improve testing turnaround by looking beyond the lab

I was able to give her a few examples--inappropriately responding to STAT lab tests, needing constant direction from other staff employees, and being easily distracted from her work by other employees--but she could not remember the incidents.