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Point of Care testing Quick Access Guides

South West London Pathology Point of Care (POCT) Team have created a number of Quick Access Guides to help users use POCT devices correctly and interpret the results.

If you have any questions about the Quick Access Guides you can email poct@stgeorges.nhs.uk.

ABL90 FLEX Blood Gas Analyser Information Guide

ABL90 Flex Plus – How to analyse a blood gas capillary sample

ABL90 Flex Plus – How to analyse a blood gas syringe sample

How to perform a patient blood glucose test

Haemonetics TEG6s Patient Test Quick Guide

Haemonetics TEG6s Internal Quality Control Test Quick Guide

How to perform a patient test on ACCU CHEK Inform II Glucose device

How to perform a Quality Control (QC) test on ACCU CHEK Inform II Glucose device

How to perform a Quality Control test on a glucometer

Roche Cobas B101 CRP test Quality Control Guide

Roche Cobas B101 CRP test Patient User Guide

Roche Cobas B101 HbA1c test QC Guide

Roche Cobas B101 HbA1c test User Guide

Roche Cobas B101 Lipid test Quality Control Guide

Roche Cobas B101 Lipid test Patient Test Guide

CoaguCheckPro II Quality Control testing

CoaguCheckPro II patient testing

Abbott i-STAT Alinity System Quality Control Guide

Abbott i-STAT Alinity System patient test guide

Nova Biomedical Stat-Strip Ketone Meter PT Testing Quick Guide

Nova Biomedical Sure Stat Ketone Meter IQC Quick Guide

Sterilab Urilyzer 100 PRO Quality Control test guide

Sterilab Urilyzer 100 PRO test user guide

LumiraDX SARS-Cov-2 Ag test quick reference instructions

Werfen GEM Hemochron 100 analyser Quality Control guide

Werfen GEM Hemochron 100 analyser patient user guide

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