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i-STAT in critical care
i-STAT in critical care
STREAMLINE TESTING. STANDARDIZE QUALITY CARE.
STREAMLINE TESTING.
STANDARDIZE QUALITY CARE.
i‑STAT empowers your critical care team to scale capacity, improve patient care and help ensure staff safety.
Bedside testing with the i-STAT System does more than accelerate answers. Today, critical care areas such as the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) are being shaped by the need to establish goal-directed therapy, vent weaning and patient safety protocols. Key challenges facing critical care units include the need to reduce patient length of stay (LOS) while reducing costs and staff turnover. The i‑STAT System provides clinicians the ability to minimize testing-process inefficiencies while providing lab-quality results at the patient bedside in minutes.
Using just two to three drops of blood, the i‑STAT System analyzes the patient sample with minimal steps – reducing the traditional pre-analytical steps to just one.
meeting the current challenges of critical care delivery
expanding capacity
conserving resources
maintaining safety
maintaining the highest standards of critical care
your ideal diagnostic solution
With a broad menu of tests on a single bedside platform, i-STAT can help reduce process inefficiencies, improve hospital supply/PPE utilization, and enhance protection for patients and staff.
expanding capacity
- Informs critical decisions at the patient's bedside
- Promotes collaborative, patient-centric care
- Enables rapid treatment decisions
- Reduces vent weaning time
conserving resources
- Reduces complex steps and streamlines workflow
- Optimizes resource utilization, including PPE conservation
- Provides portability and flexibility
- Helps meet surge demand
- Enables use in non-traditional ICU settings
maintaining safety
- Offers excellent precision and lab-quality results
- Reduces risk of sample handling errors
- Supports infection prevention
- Decreases travel between areas of the hospital
- Simple disinfection protocol and singile-use cartidges
real-world evidence
Implementing bedside testing helped the critical care team in a New York City hospital significantly improve performance acress multiple measures of success1,2
decreased incidence of infections to
0%
decreased blood product utilization by
36%
decreased mean mechanical vent time to
160 min
reduced length of
stay by
44%
lowered mortality
rate by
0.1%
reduced total costs of care by
47%
The results shown here are specific to one healthcare facility and may differ from those achieved by other institutions.
NEONATAL ICU |
Respiratory Therapy |
Cardiovascular or |
Cardiovascular icu |
CATH LAB |
NEONATAL ICU |
Respiratory Therapy |
Cardiovascular or |
Cardiovascular icu |
CATH LAB |
NEONATAL ICU |
Respiratory Therapy |
Cardiovascular or |
Cardiovascular icu |
CATH LAB |
supporting care during a pandemic
"Any time our care team members enter or exit the COVID-19 ICU, it increases risk of cross contamination and uses another set of PPE. So every test that can be run at the point of care, we do."
vicki carver, manager of respiratory therapy
pulmonary diagnostics services and ekg
- Aligns with CDC recommendations stating that whenever possible, perform procedures/tests in the patient's room.3
- Helps meet surge demand, even during peak times
- Enables use in non-traditional ICU settings
- Drives efficiency and PPE conservation
- Helps reduce infection risk
- Eliminates sample transport throughout the hospital
- Limits exposure to potentially infectious bodily fluids during testing
- Facilitates reduction in time on mechanical ventilation and associated risks
References
- 055323 Rev A_Charles Oribabor: The Role of Point of Care Testing in Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care. Data on File with Abbott Point of Care.
- Charles Oribabor New York Methodist Cardiac Surgery: 2010 Program Outcomes - NY State Data.
- Infection Control: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July, 2020