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Jeremy MacDonald posted a reply on Re: FOB - moving away from POC

Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM

Said: When we proposed a transiting away from point-of-care (POC) fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) to a laboratory-performed immunological test, several issues with the traditional guaiac-based method were reviewed: The traditi...

James Beck posted a reply on Re: FOB - moving away from POC

Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM

Said: I don't have any suggestions for you, but I am surprised you are able to get your clinical areas to go along with this idea? Yes, of course there are better, more specific and sensitive tests now, but for the purposes that the old...

Brian Castle posted a new Topic

Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM

FOB - moving away from POC

Hi all,

For those of you who have discontinued POC fecal occult blood testing, how did you address the needs of your respective clinical areas?

We are on the verge of removing this test from ED settings, and I am working with clinicians and our main lab to envision an alternate scenario.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Lindsey Scanlon posted a reply on Re: High Sensitivity Troponin on iSTAT

Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM

Said: With those of you who have successfully completed the validation process, would you be willing to share any of your process to those of us who are just starting? I ordered a bulk supply of the cTnI cartridges to tide us over until we wr...

Barb Elli posted a reply on Re: Venous Blood Gases/Lactates

Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM

Said: We are 2 months into being live with Epic. Phlebotomy collects our VBGs and Ion Calc and sends to Blood gas lab for RTs to run. A build is in place for the unsolicited order to go to the Rovers, but it does not work. H...