Jan 25, 2019
Clinical laboratories play a crucial role in emergency medicine through toxicology and drug testing. The type of testing provided is often a balance between laboratory resources and the patient population served. Each approach to drug screening comes with advantages and disadvantages depending upon the specific drug...
Jan 9, 2019
Measuring vancomycin levels has long been an important component of laboratory therapeutic drug monitoring. Such measurements are important for obtaining optimal targets serum concentrations for drug dosing, while avoiding vancomycin induced nephrotoxicity. “AUC-Based Monitoring of Vancomycin: Closing the...
Jan 2, 2019
“Clinical Effect of Expedited Pathogen Identification and Susceptibility Testing for Gram-Negative Bacteremia and Candidemia by Use of the Accelerate PhenoTM System” was published in the January 2019 issue of The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. This work evaluates the clinical impact on a new device for...