Friday, May 4, 2018
The installation of TEMPUS600 system at the Acute Paediatric Department, Kolding Hospital, Denmark, is a huge timesaving factor and frees up competencies
In 2013, Kolding Hospital, Denmark, installed the TEMPUS600 system in their Acute Paediatric Department with the primary objective of speeding up the analysis of acute blood samples in the laboratory.
Today, all samples from the department are sent through the Tempus600 system. Transportation time is only 40 seconds for acute samples, which results in savings of 30–60 minutes. This is a huge timesaving factor and results in better treatment.
“The most significant impact on the staff’s daily routines is that they no longer have to several times a day, take the samples from the Paediatric Department to the laboratory, which is a return journey of 600 m. Previously, staff could walk many kilometres every day. Now they can stay in the department, collect the samples and use the Tempus600 system to send them to the laboratory where the staff handle and analyse them,” explains Jens Hastrup, Clinical Biochemist at Kolding Hospital.
At the Paediatric Department, the samples are collected in special micro tubes. The micro tubes are labelled with barcodes, placed in larger tubes also labelled with barcodes, and secured for safe transportation. These large tubes are dispatched via the Tempus600 system and placed on the track in the fully automated Sysmex/GLP system, which registers and places them in a special output section. From here, they are handled manually in the microanalysis process.
The main improvement is speed. The likelihood of haemolysis and other problems arising with the samples is reduced because they can now be analysed much quicker with the Tempus600 system. Each individual Tempus600 system is tested to ensure that the samples being sent through the Tempus line meet the laboratory requirements.
“Considering that hospitals expand over time and new huge hospitals are being built, it’s very important we can ensure the safe and efficient transportation of blood samples between departments and buildings," says Jens Hastrup.
ReturnSaving crucial time in the Acute Paediatric Department;
/Default.aspx?ID=1111&newsid=176&PID=4787&M=NewsV2&Action=1
Menu