ISTAT Scanning
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Hi all,
We have ISTAT testing being performed by many different department and in different settings throughout our institutions. Some areas are performing ISTAT testing from vacutainers and others from syringes in the case of line draws. I have all the ISTATs programmed to be a label scan. I have a critical care unit, that is that is strongly pressuring me to allow them to scan the patient armband rather than the specimen label. They are pulling the blood from lines and performing the testing bedside. I don't feel that it is correct to scan the armband and essentially run an unlabeled specimen from the syringe.
Can you please share your practices and views on this? Am I wrong to require the label scan?
Thanks for your input,
Dianne
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Hi Silka and James,
I am just curious with your patient armband barcode, is it a 2D? I called DE support and they said iSTAT will only allow linear (1D) barcode. Our patient armband has both the linear patient label barcode and a 2D barcode. Thank you
Ours are the same - we have both, but the 2D is only used for medication management. iSTATs are scanning the linear wristband barcode only, and not the label.