December 3, 2002

Marcia L. Zucker, Ph.D.

Point of care coagulation monitoring is a rapidly growing field. Far from the days where ACTs were performed in the operating room and cardiac catheterization laboratories with little oversight, the field now includes aPTT, PT and specialty applications. This edition of Expert Access will familiarize the participant with the wide variety of tests and analyzers currently available. Differences and similarities between these systems will be explored as well as defining realistic expectations for comparisons to central laboratories. There is also a brief description of the regulatory issues surrounding point of care coagulation monitoring.