POCT

Require sophisticated instrument and high degree of interpretation by testing personnel.

• Moderate Complexity

• Waived Test

• High Complexity

Any person can perform the procedure, simple procedure cleared by FDA for home use; employ methodolpgies.

• Waived Test

• Moderate Complexity

• High Complexity

More difficult to perform and require documentation of training in testing principles, instrument calibration and quality control.

• High Complexity

• Waived Test

• Moderate Complexity

Charge and billing mechanism.

• Post challenges

• Advantages of poct

• Drawbacks of poct

All are advantages of poct except:

• Ease of use

• Good management team

• Decrease TAT

• Elimination of sample transport

Testing without institutional review or approval

• Drawbacks of poct

• Post challenges

• Advantages of poct

• Needs to solce POCT challenges

Most common interfering substance in your urinalysis

• Vitamin A

• Vitamin B

• Vitamin C

• Vitamin D

Universal Precaution

• All samples should be treated potentially infectious

• Those samples with visible blood should be treated only as infectious

Standard Precaution

• All samples should be treated potentially infectious

• Those samples with visible blood should be treated only as infectious

Combination of arterial and venous blood

• Arterial

• Venous

• Capillary