POCT, point-of-care testing, refers to clinical testing and bedside testing performed next to the patient, and is usually not necessarily performed by a clinical laboratory technician. It is in the sampling site immediately analyzed, eliminating the complex processing of specimens in the laboratory test, rapid test results of a new class of methods.
Point-of-care testing (POCT) is named by the China Medical Device Association POCT equipment technical committee on the basis of many experts. It is a testing method that is conducted at the sampling site and uses portable analytical instruments and auxiliary reagents to obtain rapid test results.
The meaning of POCT can be understood from two aspects: spatially, it refers to the test carried out at the patient's side, i.e., "bedside test"; and spatially, it refers to "instant test".
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The main purpose of POCT is to get the results of the experiment faster. Advances in diagnostic and ancillary technologies, improved understanding of diseases and improved treatment are the main reasons for the gradual interest in POCT. These advances have brought some diseases closer to eradication and others closer to earlier diagnosis and better treatment.
For the diagnosis of AMI patients in whom the clinical presentation of highly suspicious ECGs is not diagnostically decisive, the application of cTnI bedside diagnostic reagents can make the diagnosis and treatment of such acute patients easier and more accurate. The entire procedure takes only 15 minutes.
2. Ease of use
Another feature of POCT is that it is easy to operate and use.POCT becomes part of the diagnostic system with its ease of use, and assumes the functions of a laboratory without the need for traditional hospital laboratory equipment.POCT can be performed in a doctor's office or in a mobile car.POCT can provide a full range of services to patients within 24 hours, regardless of time and location. It is not limited by time or location.
3. Saving on overall costs
The biggest problem faced by the experimenter is controlling the cost of diagnosis. However, the result is always a reduction in the cost of a single test, not the total cost of the entire medical process. In terms of "cost per test", POCT is relatively high, but in many cases, the application of POCT not only improves the experimental results, but also reduces resource utilization, patient hospitalization time, sampling time, and medical staff occupancy time, etc.
This is the most important issue for experimenters.