Potential length of stay reductions from emergency department use of a point-of-care high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assay: Pilot findings from Australia's first cardiac emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare actual ED length of stay (LOS) using laboratory-based high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) testing with the potential LOS that could result from using point-of-care (POC) hs-cTnI tests.

Methods

Baseline hs-cTnI tests were performed on the same blood sample in the laboratory (Access hsTnI assay) and in the ED (Atellica VTLi POC assay). Actual and potential LOS were compared for patients who were discharged after having a baseline laboratory hs-cTnI test only. Total LOS incorporated time from arrival to blood sample collection, blood sampling to result availability and result availability to discharge. For potential LOS, the blood sampling to result availability time with POC use was fixed at 10 min (2-min preparation and 8-min test-processing). T

SUBMITTER: Meek R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12012289 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature