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.
Read moreGoing from assessment to treatment means having the right pieces of the clinical puzzle at hand for diagnosis. Immediate access to the most useful clinical parameters could mean efficient patient visits, distinguishing the critical patients from the less severe conditions, correct treatment decisions and a better patient flow.
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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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.
Ulrika Greczula is responsible for blood collection throughout Halland County and works at the blood centers in Varberg, Falkenberg, and Halmstad. Today, Ulrika works at the blood center at the hospital in Varberg.
The Regional Blood Donation and Hemotherapy Center in Warsaw (Warsaw Blood Bank) is one of the largest blood banks in Poland. Located in the capital of the country, in the Masovian Voivodeship province, the Warsaw Blood Bank supplies blood components such as red blood cell concentrate, freshly frozen plasma and platelet blood cell concentrate to over 100 hospitals with specialist departments including hematology, transplantology, and oncology.
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.
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.
