The Impact of Point of Care Blood Gas Testing at a Large Community Hospital

Now On Demand

1 hour

|2021-09-28
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Patti DeJuilio
Clinical Director Respiratory Care and Sleep Center

This webinar will discuss the implementation of POCT and highlight the impact on cost, sepsis bundle compliance and employee engagement. Specifically, Ms. DeJuilio will review how increased utilization of lactate testing with improved sepsis bundle compliance may result in reduced mortality. Additionally, improvements associated with clinical, operational and financial outcomes will be addressed.

  • Describe the impact of POCT in achieving clinical, operational, and financial efficiencies 
  • Explain how POCT may improve patient outcomes

  • Those looking to understand how point of care blood gas testing impacts operational and clinical outcomes 
  • Clinicians who would like to further learn more about how point of care lactate testing improves sepsis bundle compliance 
  • Hospital administrators that are looking to evaluate the integration point of care blood gas testing and how it may contribute to efficiencies and cost savings 
  • POC coordinators that may be looking to integrate performance measures in their quality metrics

Attendees are entitled to P.A.C.E. credits from the ASCLS and/or ACCENT credits from the AACC.

Available through September 2023

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