Point of Care Testing in Small Animal Practice: Opportunities and Challenges

Point-of-care (POC) testing aims to bring essential laboratory diagnostic information to the cage side and make the results immediately available to the clinician. Although POC devices have long been staples in 24-hour veterinary emergency practice, where dynamic, critically ill patients present rapidly changing diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, a multitude of POC analyzers targeted at a wider range of veterinary practitioners have come on the market in recent years. This has offered an unprecedented breadth of choice to practice owners looking to expand their in-house diagnostic capabilities.
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Tags: Introduction Source Type: research