Effectiveness of Point of Care Complete Blood Cell Count Analyzer in Reducing Time to Results

Northwestern Medicine

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Laboratory Problem

Treatments: Device: Central Lab based CBC; Device: Point of Care CBC

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04769336

21-009-LFH

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current process for getting complete blood cell counts (CBC) results in the operating room during surgery relies on sending blood samples from the operating room to the hospital's central lab. This workflow is complex and often results in handing off the blood sample to 4 or more different staff members before arriving in the lab for analysis. This often causes delayed CBC results, which may lead to inappropriate or delayed clinical decision making. By providing prompt access to CBC results with the use of a point of care CBC analyzer, the clinical workflow efficiency can be significantly improved. This should resulting in better clinical decision making, reductions in costs, increase in patient satisfaction and facilitation of hospital processes.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All English speaking patients, 18 years or older, having surgery in the Lake Forest Hospital operating rooms, with a pre-existing indication for CBC analysis.

Exclusion criteria

• All patients not meeting inclusion criteria or protected patient populations, specifically, pregnant women, prisoners, cognitively impaired patients, patients unable to consent, students, employees, and children)

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Patient

Description:

Each patient will undergo simultaneous testing with two different CBC analyzers.

Treatment:

Device: Central Lab based CBC

Device: Point of Care CBC