Introduction
Critical care laboratory mostly handles the whole blood specimen, which includes the arterial and venous blood gas sample from emergency, trauma, and operational department. These departments order the stat sample, which should be resulted within 30 minutes to 1 hour from the time of collection. Monitoring the total time of processing blood gas samples is consider as turnaround time (TAT). Various factors delay the TAT and are control by the laboratory personnel including the pre-analytical, analytical and post analytical factors. Sample cancellation, delayed result and providers dissatisfaction has been increased in the critical care laboratory due to the lack of proper health informatics system that monitor the TAT. Recent studies indicate that monitoring the turnaround time will help to increase the quality of test results as well as decrease the delays in patient treatment for up to 90% in the stat samples (Hawkins, 2007). Similarly, monitoring TAT also speed up the diagnosis process and provide the quality of testing in the critical care laboratory. For this research purpose data collected from critical care laboratory are used to find out the actual problem. Recommendation including use of electronic patient logbook and TAT monitoring screen with …show more content…
Delaying in verifying the test results will cause the false positive results that directly affect the patient care process in various departments and increase the TAT of the laboratory. For this project, the target population are the data collected from the patients in emergency, trauma, and operation departments of the hospital. Similarly, technologist from critical care laboratory and health care providers from those departments will also provide their feedback to study the effectiveness of the recommended technique that will be implemented to maintain and monitor the TAT in the critical care
Critical care laboratory mostly handles the whole blood specimen, which includes the arterial and venous blood gas sample from emergency, trauma, and operational department. These departments order the stat sample, which should be resulted within 30 minutes to 1 hour from the time of collection. Monitoring the total time of processing blood gas samples is consider as turnaround time (TAT). Various factors delay the TAT and are control by the laboratory personnel including the pre-analytical, analytical and post analytical factors. Sample cancellation, delayed result and providers dissatisfaction has been increased in the critical care laboratory due to the lack of proper health informatics system that monitor the TAT. Recent studies indicate that monitoring the turnaround time will help to increase the quality of test results as well as decrease the delays in patient treatment for up to 90% in the stat samples (Hawkins, 2007). Similarly, monitoring TAT also speed up the diagnosis process and provide the quality of testing in the critical care laboratory. For this research purpose data collected from critical care laboratory are used to find out the actual problem. Recommendation including use of electronic patient logbook and TAT monitoring screen with …show more content…
Delaying in verifying the test results will cause the false positive results that directly affect the patient care process in various departments and increase the TAT of the laboratory. For this project, the target population are the data collected from the patients in emergency, trauma, and operation departments of the hospital. Similarly, technologist from critical care laboratory and health care providers from those departments will also provide their feedback to study the effectiveness of the recommended technique that will be implemented to maintain and monitor the TAT in the critical care