• J Hirsch, T Wendt, P Kuhly, and W Schaffartzik.
• Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Teaching Hospital of the Free University of Berlin, Warener Str. 7, 12683 Berlin, Germany.
• Anaesthesia. 2001 Aug 1; 56 (8): 760-3.

AbstractPoint-of-care testing of coagulation parameters provides a more rapid assessment of test results compared with laboratory testing. A new coagulation monitor (GEM PCL, Instrumentation Laboratory, Kirchheim, Germany) was evaluated. Point-of-care data for activated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time (expressed as the international normalised ratio) and turn-around-time were compared. Coagulation parameters were compared in the blood of 57 patients with and without heparin therapy. The point-of-care and laboratory test results showed a bias (SD) of -0.26 (4.55) s for activated partial thromboplastin time and -0.011 (0.150) s for prothrombin time. The average turn-around-time was 3 min for point-of-care testing vs. 52 min for laboratory testing. We conclude that the reliability of point-of-care testing is sufficient for clinical use.

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