Emergency consultant Dr Paul Jarvis delivered two lectures at the The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (EM) 2015 Annual Scientific Conference.
It was a sell-out, held in Manchester last month with a central theme ’24 Hour Emergency Medicine People: the Specialty That Never Sleeps’.
Dr Jarvis's lectures were on Point of Care Testing (POCT) and How to Make Rapid Assessment work in Your ED.
POCT, pictured above in use, is the 'Point of Care Testing', is the terminology for the analysing of blood tests at patient’s bedside rather than in the hospital centralised laboratory.
The facility is now available in both Emergency department sites within our Trust.
Dr Jarvis, said: "This can speed up patients' care as it allows patients to be sent home sooner as treatment can begin more quicklythan before. Since the introduction of Point of Care Testing in the Emergency Department at CHFT, we have seen a massive decrease in the number of patients waiting for blood results. So it means there is less overcrowding in the Emergency Department and patients start the correct treatment sooner."
POCT is used across other Trusts, but our Trust is the first in the UK to use it to such an extent in the emergency department.
During the three days there were more than a hundred lectures by world class EM doctors including internationally renowned Dr Scott Weingart from USA and Dr Cliff Reid from Australia.
Our Dr Ivor Kovic also presented posters based on his research conducted during the last six months in our Trust. Both were presented as posters on the theme of:
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