GLOBAL POINT OF CARE
The i-STAT System helps deliver collaborative, patient-centered care and can drive performance in a variety of healthcare settings. In just minutes, i-STAT analyzers can deliver lab-quality results and accurate record-keeping — without leaving the patient's side. This allows healthcare professionals to quickly respond to any need and condition where and when care is needed.
The i‑STAT System provides comprehensive menus of the most commonly performed tests, ideal for meeting the needs of various hospital department settings.
Only a few simple steps are required to get lab-quality test results in less time4 and at lower cost.14 Quickly respond to any need or change in a patient’s condition while at the bedside.
Real-time results allow clinical teams the ability to collaborate at the patient's side to make immediate treatment decisions, helping to impact efficiency and throughput.
Quality checks of sample integrity, sensors, and fluidics are automatic with each i‑STAT cartridge, providing confidence and advanced performance to help improve quality of care.
The i-STAT System allows for critical testing at the patient’s side, providing fast, reliable, diagnostic, treatment, and prognostic indicators offering the potential for even the smallest hospital to improve both system efficiency and patient care.
Critical care departments include a wide range of specialty areas that administer care to many of the hospital’s most critically ill patients. With ICU costs constituting a large portion of total hospital costs, (accounting for 8%–30% of total hospital budget)1, and a patient bed in an ICU costing the hospital as much as 3 times more than the cost of a bed in the non-icu,2 hospital administrators are challenged daily to help reduce costs. The i-STAT System offers solutions to help achieve these goals.
ED overcrowding puts stress on caregivers and is a major patient safety concern associated with poor patient outcomes.3 Increased ED volume can mean patients face long periods of waiting4 which can be a key obstacle to timely patient treatment and disposition. Having accurate results sooner can accelerate triage and treatment decisions that can help EDs overcome these challenges.
Because of the delicate nature of surgery, real-time test results are often critical, yet results from the central lab can take 60 minutes5 or more. Costly challenges, such as surgical cancellations, can add up, while the sharing of benchtop blood-gas-analysis systems among operating rooms can cause delays due to the nurse having to leave the room, the system already being in use or frequent calibration requirements. The variables can potentially increase staffing requirements and impact patient care. Analysis via bench-tops (where the operating room assistant must leave the room to perform tests) can be costly, as well as potentially increase staffing requirements and impact patient care.
In the Cath Lab, it’s important that both activated clotting time (ACT) and blood gas results are readily available.
The i-STAT System offers quick results for most tests needed for surgery on a single, portable platform, while providing all tests needed in the Cath Lab with better reproducibility than some benchtop systems.6
Bedside testing can be a valuable resource that can help improve efficiencies and maintain quality while relieving pressure on the lab. By reducing the number of test requests and call-back procedures, lab staff is freed from routine testing and can focus on more complex, time-consuming tests and high-volume, reference-lab testing. Integrating a POC testing system into lab processes can promote patient-centric care, increase lab efficiency, and help reduce costs.
Millions of contrast medium-assisted radiological examinations are conducted each year. However, these procedures are not without risk of adverse events. Renal failure due to the administration of contrast media is reported to be the third most common cause of in-hospital renal failure, after hypotension and surgery.7 Another danger in performing radiological investigations in women of childbearing age is pregnancy status. Assessing pregnancy status can cause delays in processing patients for investigations.10
The i-STAT System offers key tests to help identify conditions that may cause complications associated with radiological procedures.
In the respiratory therapy area, point-of care testing enables rapid analysis of blood gases so respiratory therapists can gain a greater degree of control over a patient's respiratory condition. With many current testing models, the RT must leave the bedside for blood analysis, taking time away from the patient and necessary breathing treatments.
Testing with the i-STAT System allows RTs to more fully integrate with the care team at the patient's bedside.
With regulations related to mandatory overtime and clinical process measures, evidence is mounting regarding the impact of workload on patient outcomes and errors.
As transparency and accountability for sepsis care escalates, with-patient testing solutions can enable you to transform risk stratification at the bedside.
In addition to the obvious benefits to medical staff and patients, economic benefits can result from the adoption of a with-patient testing platform.
The i-STAT System allows for critical testing at the patient’s side, providing fast, reliable, diagnostic, treatment, and prognostic indicators.
In non-hospital, community and remote settings (where proximity to the central lab can increase time to diagnosis and treatment), point-of-care testing allows care teams to remain with the patient and obtain fast, accurate diagnostic results to help expedite care and promote patient satisfaction.
The i-STAT System offers the potential for every facility to improve both system efficiency and patient care.
In the respiratory therapy area, point-of care testing enables rapid analysis of blood gases so respiratory therapists can gain a greater degree of control over a patient's respiratory condition. With many current testing models, the RT must leave the bedside for blood analysis, taking time away from the patient and necessary breathing treatments.
Testing with the i-STAT System allows RTs to more fully integrate with the care team at the patient's bedside.
The trend toward same-day care is rising.8 This convenient and desired approach to care can benefit patients and providers alike. Test, diagnose and treat patients in the same visit, providing them with the urgent care they need when they need it.
Various community facilities can benefit from the i-STAT System's accuracy and convenience, with results available in minutes rather than hours.
Point-of-care testing devices are decreasing the time to diagnose illnesses. Patients are getting correct treatment more quickly, which often means they don't have to be transferred to the Emergency Department for diagnosis.
Bring lab-quality testing to remote locations that have no or little access to the lab. i-STAT can provide the diagnostic information needed to facilitate real-time, virtual collaboration with clinicians to expedite patient care... no matter where.
Treating an average of 4,800 patients a month, learn how urgent care professionals use the i-STAT System to deliver efficient, clinical care and support to patients who present with chest pain and other underlying diseases.
Having critical point-of-care test results in the field can speed the start of targeted, lifesaving care at the scene for ground or air transport to facilitate real-time virtual collaboration with clinicians.
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