What does poct mean in medicine?

POCT(point-of-care) refers to the clinical examination and bedside examination carried out by patients, which are usually not necessarily carried out by clinical examiners. It is a new method to analyze samples at the sampling site immediately, which saves complicated sample processing procedures in laboratory inspection and can get inspection results quickly.

The bedside detection (POCT) was named by the POCT Equipment Technical Committee of China Medical Device Association on the basis of many experts' argumentation. It refers to the detection method which is carried out at the sampling site and can quickly obtain the detection results by using portable analytical instruments and auxiliary reagents.

The significance of POCT can be understood from two aspects: spatially, it refers to the test around patients, that is, "bedside test"; In space, it means "instant testing".

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1, come on

The main purpose of POCT is to get the experimental results faster. The progress of diagnosis and auxiliary technology, the understanding of diseases and the improvement of treatment level are the main reasons why POCT is gradually concerned. These advances bring some diseases closer to eradication, while others are closer to early diagnosis and better treatment.

For the diagnosis of AMI patients, if the clinical manifestations of highly suspicious ECG are not decisive, the application of cTnI bedside diagnostic reagent can make the diagnosis and treatment of such acute patients easier and more accurate. The whole process only takes 15 minutes.

2, easy to use

Another feature of POCT is its easy operation and use. Because of its ease of use, POCT has become a part of the diagnostic system, and it has assumed the function of a laboratory, without the need of traditional hospital laboratory equipment. POCT can be done in a doctor's office or in a moving car. POCT can provide all-round services to patients within 24 hours, regardless of time and place.

3. Save comprehensive cost

The biggest problem faced by experimenters is to control the cost of diagnosis. However, the result is always to reduce the cost of a single examination, rather than the total cost of the whole medical process. From the point of view of "single test cost", POCT is relatively high, but in many cases, the application of POCT can not only improve the experimental results, but also reduce the occupation of resources, the hospitalization time of patients, the sampling time and the occupation time of medical staff.