์ ์ฒด ๊ธ ์ธ๋ค์ผํ ๋ฆฌ์คํธํ ์๊ธ์ค์์ POS(Point-of-Care) ์ฅ์น๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ ๋ณตํฉ ์ฌ์ฅ ๋ง์ปค ํ ์คํธ์ ์์์ ์ ์ฉ์ฑ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ: ๊ธ์ฑ ๊ด์๋๋งฅ์ฆํ๊ตฐ ๋ฑ ์ฌ๋ถ์ ๊ณผ ๋ฌด๊ดํ ๋ค์ํ ์กฐ๊ฑด์์ Bํ ๋ํธ๋ฅจ๋จํฉํ์ด๋(BNP) ์์น๊ฐ ์์นํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋นํํ์ฑ ์กฐ๊ฑด์์๋ ์ฌ์ฅ ํธ๋กํฌ๋(cTn) ์์น๊ฐ ์์นํ ์ ์๋ค.์ด ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ์๊ธ์ค(ED)์ ์ ์ถํ ํ์์ POS(Point-of-Care) ์ฅ์น๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ ๋ณตํฉ ์ฌ์ฅ ๋ง์ปค ํ ์คํธ(BNP ๋ฐ cTnI)์ ์์ ์ ์ฉ์ฑ์ ํ๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๋ค. ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ: 2013๋ 3์๋ถํฐ 8์๊น์ง ED๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ 2,674๋ช ์ ํ์๊ฐ ์ด ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ํฌํจ๋์๋ค.์ฌ์ฅ ๋ง์ปค ํ ์คํธ๋ Triage Cardio3 ํจ๋(๋ฏธ๊ตญ, Alere)์ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ ์ํ๋์์ต๋๋ค.์ ์ ์ง๋ฃ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ 2014๋ 8์์ ์์ง๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ: 22.2%์ ํ์๊ฐ BNP ๋ฐ/๋๋ cTnI๊ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ค(BNP๋ง ์์นํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ 12.8%, cTnI๋ง ์.. ๋๋ณด๊ธฐ Clinical Usefulness of Combined Cardiac Marker Testing with a Point-of-Care Device at the Emergency Department B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels are elevated in various conditions unrelated to heart failure, such as acute coronary syndrome, and cardiac troponin (cTn) levels may also be elevated in several non-ischemic conditions. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical usefulness of combined cardiac marker testing (BNP and cTnI) with point-of-care devices in patients who presented to the emergenc.. ๋๋ณด๊ธฐ Evaluation of the Reliability of Automated Colistin Susceptibility Assays of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Background: With the increase in multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative rods, colistin treatment is increasingly required. Reliable susceptibility testing is important for managing infectious patients with MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This study evaluated the reliability of an automated colistin susceptibility assay. Methods: In total, 195 non-duplicated P. aeruginosa blood isolates were collect.. ๋๋ณด๊ธฐ Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Test Using Saliva and Anterior Nasal Swab Samples Compared with Conventional Nasopharyngeal Swab Samples Background: As the global pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 continues, so does the need for molecular tests with simple, painless, and easy sample collection. We aimed to investigate the potential use of saliva and anterior nasal swab samples as a noninvasive and self-collectable specimen for the molecular diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Methods: We pr.. ๋๋ณด๊ธฐ Investigation to Reduce Delivery Delay Rate of Proficiency Test Materials and Maintaining Materials in Proper Temperature Ranges during Delivery Background: The Korean Association of External Quality Assessment Service provides proficiency test (PT) materials through a logistics company. We investigated the delivery times of PT materials in 2020 and the methods to reduce delivery delay. We also attempted to prolong the proper storage temperature with the addition of ice pack. Methods: The lead times of deliveries from 2020 were calculate.. ๋๋ณด๊ธฐ Apolipoprotein E Genotyping Using Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism with General-Purpose Agarose and Lithium Borate Buffer Background: Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotyping is an important test for predicting the risk of Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease. The polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) technique for APOE genotyping is not widely used due to the need for special gels. Thus, this study aimed to develop an PCR-RFLP technique to overcome this problem. Methods: For hig.. ๋๋ณด๊ธฐ Application of Geometric Mean Criteria for Anti-Blood Group Antibody Proficiency Testing in the Korean External Quality Assurance Program Background: The geometric mean criteria (GC) is an alternative for assessing proficiency testing (PT) acceptability. A recent study applied GC to the PT results provided by the College of American Pathologists. We assessed the feasibility of using GC for anti-blood group antibody titration testing (ABT) in the Korean PT program. Methods: The results of the ABT performed in 2019 were reviewed usi.. ๋๋ณด๊ธฐ Annual Report of the Korean External Quality Assessment Service on Transfusion Medicine (2021) This report summarizes the 2021 survey results of the external quality assessment (EQA) scheme for the transfusion medicine program (TMP) in Korea. Proficiency testing materials were prepared at the Asan Medical Center for biannual distribution to participating laboratories. The accuracy rates and number of participating laboratories for the 14 survey items were as follows: ABO typing, 99.6%–100.. ๋๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ด์ 1 2 3 ๋ค์
