POC Creatinine devices

We use the EPOC. We found the Nova StatSensor did not correlate well in the higher range especially with anyone having any renal disfunction.

We use the EPOC as well, and our imaging team really likes it. They draw a venous sample when they start the IV for contrast, rather than using capillary blood.

We've been doing bedside creatinines on the iSTAT for years. Not a fingerstick, but drawn in a lithium heparin vacutainer. Very easy to use, although there is the issue of the Propofol/thiopental sodium/hydroxyurea interference. In those cases the specimen is sent to the lab. We also use the EPOC in other areas, but use the iSTAT for Med Im because it's waived and the off-sites only have a certificate of waiver, so we can't have non-waived there.