Point of Care White Blood Cell Count
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Does anyone perform point of care white blood cell counts using the Hemocue analyzer? The sepsis coordinator is looking for a faster way to get the white blood cell count after a code sepsis is called in the emergency room.
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Hi,
We use it. It correlates well with our Beckman Coulter.
Stacie
Good to know. Where do you work? What departments use the Hemocue?
Hi,
I work in California at a County Hospital. We have a Point of Care room in the ED and RN's perform the WBC on suspected sepsis patients.
Stacie
Is it CLIA-waived?
No, moderate complexity.
There is a POC CBC analyzer by Sysmex that is waived but I'm at a Peds hospital and it isn't approved for children under the age of 2 y/o. Don't know much else about it but I am attaching the link:
http://pages.sysmex.com/XW-100_Waived_CBC_landing.html
I checked on this in the hopes that they would be less expensive than the service contracts on our Sysmex XP-300s that we use in physician offices and clinics. Turns out that they have currently stopped installation on these due to some issues they've had. Plus they are way more expensive than the XPs and cannot be connected to LIS. Would be great to find a waived CBC analyzer though.