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Anaesthesiology

Point of care testing

Built from Al-Shaikh — Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Peri-operative Medicine, 6e

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8 sections · 41 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this deck will teach you

    1 slide

  2. 02

    What is Point-of-Care Testing?

    The result comes to the patient, not the other way round

    • The core idea: test where the patient is
    • How POC testing grew, and how far it now reaches
    • The point-of-care testing concept

    3 slides

  3. 03

    HemoCue

    A drop of blood to a haemoglobin value

    • What the HemoCue is and what sits inside it
    • Mechanism: turning red cells into a measurable colour
    • Reading the result, and keeping it accurate
    • HemoCue Hb 801 haemoglobin analyser

    4 slides

  4. 04

    Hemochron Junior

    Measuring the activated clotting time

    • Why measure the activated clotting time (ACT)?
    • What is inside, and the two reagent ranges
    • How the test runs, and what can prolong the ACT
    • Hemochron Junior ACT analyser with cassette

    4 slides

  5. 05

    TEG and ROTEM

    Watching a clot form to guide bleeding treatment

    • Why watch the whole clot form?
    • The shared principle: cup versus pin
    • How the classic cup-and-pin method works

    3 slides

  6. 06

    TEG 6s

    A portable analyser that reads clot strength by resonance

    • What the TEG 6s is, and its parts
    • The resonance method: reading a clot by how it vibrates
    • TEG 6s viscoelastic analyser with cartridge
    • Reading a TEG trace: the five key parameters
    • Making sense of those parameters
    • Characteristic TEG clot-formation patterns
    • Choosing the right cartridge (1 of 2)
    • Choosing the right cartridge (2 of 2)
    • TEG in practice: cautions and safety

    9 slides

  7. 07

    ABL90 Flex Plus

    A portable blood-gas analyser for critical care

    • What it is and what it measures
    • How it measures, and why it is so ready to use
    • The extra picture it gives from one sample
    • Radiometer ABL90 Flex Plus blood-gas analyser

    4 slides

  8. 08

    Wrapping up

    What to carry away

    • Key takeaways
    • On thromboelastography (TEG), which points are true?
    • On the activated clotting time (ACT), which points are true?
    • References
    • Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Perioperative Medicine

    5 slides