Neonatal care can be especially challenging. Patient status can change very quickly, making rapid test results an imperative.
Additionally, clinicians must balance the need for repeat blood testing with the potential for the development of anemia, requiring blood transfusion, in these fragile patients.
Point-of-care (POC) testing is routinely used in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to mitigate these challenges due to its ease of use, rapid availability of results, and small blood volume requirements.
Keep Critical NICU Testing Close to Your Patients
The epoc® Blood Analysis System is a handheld, wireless solution that provides blood gas, electrolyte, and metabolite results at the patient’s bedside in approximately 30 seconds after sample introduction. Use of the epoc system streamlines the testing process, facilitating care for this vulnerable patient population.
- Supports better patient and staff experience by running a full menu of 13 tests on one test card with one 92 μL blood draw.
- Provides convenient capillary sampling for less-invasive neonatal care.
- Reduces the need for resticks, conserving blood, with post-calibration sample application.
- Decreases turnaround time and inventory management costs with a single room temperature-stable test card.
- Enables rapid therapeutic intervention with immediate, wireless access to critical results.
- Simplifies quality control so you can focus on patient testing.
“In our pediatric hospital setting, the epoc system showed excellent precision and accuracy…These findings, together with the low cost, room temperature storage of test cards and availability of metabolites such as lactate, glucose, and creatinine along with the wireless connectivity of the epoc system, provide an operational advantage over other point-of-care blood gas analyzers currently available.” 1,2
