Clinical laboratory teams around the world face the ongoing challenge of aligning their testing protocols with the goals of diagnostic stewardship. The idea is to ensure that every test provides actionable data to inform patient care and that unnecessary testing is kept to a minimum. Molecular testing—including both centralised laboratory assays and point-of-care (POC) tests—is […]
As a Consultant Emergency Physician and Head of the Emergency Department at the Institut Jantung Negara (National Heart Institute), one of the leading heart care centres in Southeast Asia, Dr Farina Mohd Salleh recently helped implement the 0-hour/1-hour high-sensitivity cardiac troponin algorithm. In this lecture at RED 2023, she discusses the key challenges and considerations
September 13th marks World Sepsis Day, a global event designed to help raise awareness of a dangerous and often deadly condition. In the Asia Pacific region, the need for better sepsis care—including high-quality diagnostics to help identify and manage the condition—is particularly urgent. Globally, as many as 50 million people suffer from sepsis every year,
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At pro-COAG, an annual scientific and educational event on coagulation sponsored by Roche Diagnostics that was last held in Mar 2022, Prof Alex C Spyropoulos, a Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Director of Anticoagulation and Clinical Thrombosis Services for the multi-hospital Northwell Health System in New York, spoke
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Changi General Hospital (CGH), an award-winning public hospital in Singapore, pushed digital health technologies to the fore, accelerating the integration of technology to complement and enhance the delivery of care. In this virtual reference site visit, we see how CGH has been innovating and humanising technology to provide
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After experiencing a heart attack, Sandy Yzelman discovered that he had both coronary artery disease (CAD) and hyperthyroidism due to Grave’s disease, an autoimmune disorder that can lead to heart failure and death if left untreated. In this talk, he shares the story of his diagnosis and experience of developing a treatment plan for his
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Prof David Sim, Director of the Clinical and Translational Research office of Singapore’s National Heart Centre, has extensive experience in heart failure evaluation and guiding management through the use of cardiac biomarkers. In this talk at the 7th annual China Conference on Laboratory Technology and Application (CCLTA), Prof Sim discusses the immense clinical value of
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Hanoi Medical University hospital (HMUH) receives approximately 3,500 patients per day, including around 100 patients per day in the Department of Emergency and Intensive Care (DEIC). One of the most important priorities for the DEIC is to triage patients with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) as soon as possible. It is essential to
In the ongoing fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare systems are adding interleukin-6 (IL-6) to their diagnostic toolkit. An early predictor of severe COVID-19, IL-6 is an ideal prognostic biomarker because it can be detected from an easily accessible biological source (serum or plasma) and via well-characterised, rapid assay systems. A growing body of
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On 11 Apr 2020, the Asia Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine (APACCM) co-hosted a webinar with Roche Diagnostics on the management of severe COVID-19 pneumonia. The webinar included presentations from two clinicians on the frontlines of the outbreak in China: Dr Hu Bie Jie – Professor, Head of Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Infection Management, Zhongshan Hospital,
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