Overprescription of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance are two burning topics. It’s not always easy to diagnose patients when the symptoms are vague, and confidently distinguishing between a bacterial and a viral infection is difficult without the right tools available.
In some scenarios, it can be hard to handle opinionated parents with sick children, putting pressure on you to prescribe medication. You want to make informed decisions and feel confident when prescribing treatments, but how can you be sure?
HemoCue’s solutions can be used as an effective tool for infection screening, giving you fast and accurate results. This, in combination with observation of a patient’s symptoms, can support you in making quick decisions regarding the need for antibiotic treatment.
Learn more about infection management at our Knowledge Center.
Detecting infections and diagnosing symptoms are common practices in a primary care settings. With HemoCue’s point-of-care solutions, healthcare providers receive fast results, which, in combination with observing patient symptoms, can enable rapid decision-making on the need for antibiotic treatment.
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Read moreInfection prevention is an important part of public health initiatives. Activities under the public health umbrella are usually referred to as screening programs and aim to prevent disease and prolong life among populations as a whole. With HemoCue systems at hand, you have a useful portfolio of tools to manage screening, detection and monitoring.
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Queen Silvia’s Hospital for Children, a part of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, provides healthcare, education, and research. This is where seriously ill or injured children from the region of Västra Götaland come for emergency care. It also offers highly specialized care for children from all over Sweden. The hospital has the largest emergency unit for children with nearly 50,000 patients each year.
Susanne Blohmé, Clinical Laboratory Scientist, has 30 years of experience and works at the primary care center in Bräkne-Hoby, Sweden.
Husläkarna Varmbadhuset is a private primary care center in the southern part of Sweden. It offers a broad range of high-quality medical healthcare services. Johanna Hilmersson, General Practitioner, is the operational manager at the center.
Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Centre is one of the largest blood banks in Mumbai with an average of 1,000 donors per month. The donors are both patient-related and unrelated voluntary donors in hospital settings as well as voluntary donors in donation camps outside.
The Aarhus emergency medical team consists of 18 specially-trained nurses who, in agreement with healthcare professionals from Aarhus University Hospital, Home Health Care Services and general practitioners, can step in during acute situations at patients’ residences. Within just a few hours, the emergency team can initiate care, observe, and start treatment – 24 hours a day.
For three years now, Dr Jussi Niemelä and his colleagues at Turku University Hospital in Finland have performed rapid point-of-care tests of total white blood cells (WBC) and C-reactive protein (CRP). This saves both time and money. So much money in fact, that the department has employed an additional physician during rush hours.
Nepean Lung and Sleep is a private medical practice specializing in adult respiratory and sleep medicine. The clinic provides onsite diagnostic testing for respiratory and sleep disorders, as well as medical consultations with specialist physicians. Serving Western Sydney, the Blue Mountains, and regional NSW areas such as Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee, and Lithgow, they see around 2,000 to 2,500 patients per year.
