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Said: : "​For the creatinine tests performed on the ISTAT, how do you report out the eGFR associated with the creatinine result?  Currently our LIS calculates this when the result comes through RALS into Sunquest.  We will be switching to a differ...

Said: : "We dispatch lab personnel with an i-STAT to Radiology. The Patient Registration desk notifies the lab and radiology simultaneously that the patient has arrived and that a Creatinine is needed prior to CT. Lab responds to CT and performs...

Said: : "The techs in radiology do the testing on the I-STAT. We monitor through middleware."

Said: : "It is a combination. If the patient hasn't had a creatinine in the lab before they come, the the rad tech will preform it on the Nova StatSensor."

Said: : "The Radiology Techs are trainined to run their own creatinines. I monitor results through RALS. It became a preception of time - lab was never fast enough even though we are next door to radiology."