Abbott i-STAT Machine - More Patient-Side Tests to Reduce the Burden on Your Lab
Your workplace can ease the burden on physicians and lab techs by empowering nurses and other skilled staff to perform more patient-side tests with refurbished Abbott i-STAT analyzers.
Hospital systems are outfitting more locations with point-of-care (POC) analyzers to increase overall testing capacity and serve patients better, while lowering the overall cost per test across the system.
Where are other healthcare providers using refurbished Abbott i-STAT analyzers?
Most hospital systems deploy Abbott istat analyzers in multiple departments simultaneously, and keep multiple units on standby in the event
of unexpected downtime.
Equip your:
Emergency Rooms
Intensive Care Unit
Operating Rooms
Cath Labs
CT Locations
Or any other location where a quick blood test can have an impact on patient care or internal workload.
Add your istats to your cart, then contact us for consumables
How easy is patient-side testing with your Abbott point of care i-STAT?
PERFORM PATIENT-SIDE TESTING IN 4 EASY STEPS
Add a small amount
of blood to the shelf-stable cartridge.
Plug the cartridge into the bottom of the istat machine.
Sing your favorite song quietly for a moment.
Receive results and automatically store them in your LIS.
Help physicians make faster, informed decisions to improve patient outcomes
If you put more POC analyzers into circulation, you can train your POC staff to use them in more locations and scenarios.
That will take stress off your doctors and lab techs.
More Abbott i stat analyzers in your workplace = happier staff and improved
patient outcomes.
More POC analyzers. Happier staff.
And refurbished analyzers are a fraction of the price of new analyzers (but they’re rebuilt to the same quality as the OEM).
You can spend less budget and make staff happier in their jobs.
That means better staff retention.
You can spend less budget to get more of the POC analyzers staff already use in your facility.
That means less staff training.
And, of course, your baseline. More POC analyzers mean better patient outcomes.
Add more POC analyzers to your workplace now
Speed up care for common patient types
Abdominal Pain
It’s common
- The most common complaint in the emergency department.
- Responsible for about 9% of all non-injury visits
It’s confusing
- There are many possible causes.
- 40% have unconfirmed diagnoses, which
can pose clinical and operational challenges.
It’s confounding
- Diagnostic testing is often required, which impedes operational efficiency.
- Slow turnaround times can cause bottlenecks
Chest Pain
Frequency
- Chest pain leads to about 7 million ED visits per year in the U.S., making it the second most common reason for adult visits to the ER.
Severity
- Approximately 35.7% of chest pain-related ED visits are due to cardiac disorders, with other causes including musculoskeletal issues and psychosomatic disorders.
Outcomes
- Chest pain is a significant contributor to coronary artery disease-related deaths, with more than 1,000 deaths per day in the U.S. from coronary artery disease.
How do your Abbot i-STAT analyzers expedite testing for chest pain patients in the emergency room?
Reduction in time to results
Traditional lab testing involves sample transport, processing, and result reporting, which can take an hour or more. POC testing with devices like the Abbott i-STAT system delivers results in under two minutes for critical tests such as troponin levels (used to diagnose heart attacks). This faster turnaround time allows for quicker diagnosis and treatment decisions.
Improved patient throughput
Rapid POC testing helps emergency departments reduce patient waiting times. Studies show using POC testing for chest pain patients can reduce their length of stay in the ER by as much as 35 minutes. This improvement in throughput means that beds are freed up faster, and more patients can be seen.
Accurate risk stratification
For chest pain patients, rapid access to biomarkers like troponin can help clinicians quickly stratify patients by risk, deciding whether they need urgent intervention, further observation, or can safely be discharged. POC testing reduces the time spent waiting for results, leading to more timely interventions and potentially improved patient outcomes.
Minimized sample handling errors
POC testing eliminates many of the steps where errors can occur, such as sample transport and processing, ensuring that results are obtained directly at the bedside with fewer opportunities for sample mishandling or delays.
Sepsis
Prevalence
- It's estimated that sepsis accounts for approximately 1.7 million ED visits each year in the U.S, and around 250,000 deaths.
Mortality
- Sepsis is responsible for about 35% of all in-hospital deaths, making it the leading cause of death in hospitals. The risk of mortality from sepsis increases by approximately 8% for every hour that treatment is delayed
Older Populations
- Sepsis-related death rates are significantly higher among individuals aged 65 and older. In 2021, the death rate for this age group was 330.9 per 100,000
How do your Abbot i-STAT analyzers expedite testing for sepsis patients in the emergency room?
Faster diagnosis
POC testing allows healthcare providers to measure critical biomarkers such as lactate levels. These tests can be conducted at the bedside, providing results within minutes, rather than waiting for lab tests that can take an hour or more. Early detection of elevated lactate levels is critical, as it correlates with the severity of sepsis and the need for immediate treatment.
Immediate therapeutic decisions
Your Abbott istat machines help clinicians to implement early goal-directed therapy (EGDT), which improves outcomes in sepsis patients. EGDT protocols rely on timely data such as blood gases and lactate measurements, which POC testing provides directly in the ER. This allows for quicker adjustments to treatment, including fluid resuscitation and antibiotics, which are vital in the early management of sepsis..
Streamlined workflow
An istat blood test reduces the need for multiple handoffs and sample transports, which can introduce delays and errors. By obtaining diagnostic results directly at the bedside, clinicians can make informed decisions without leaving the patient, streamlining the workflow and reducing the time to critical interventions.
Improved patient outcomes
Early and accurate diagnosis facilitated by POC testing can significantly reduce mortality rates in sepsis patients. By quickly identifying sepsis and initiating appropriate interventions, the chances of organ failure and death are reduced, improving overall patient outcomes in the emergency department.
Why invest in refurbished over new?
The cost of a refurbished Abbott istat is significantly lower than a new unit, but the product your workplace receives is almost exactly the same.
Yours is refurbished to like-new condition, and the included warranty ensures you get exactly what you pay for. If there’s a problem, we fix it.
Your refurbished i-STAT system makes your facility more patient and budget-friendly
Take great care of patients
The portability of the i-STAT system gives care teams the flexibility to perform tests wherever and whenever needed, allowing them to stay with the patient. This, combined with other efficiencies, can help facilities meet standards set by governments and organizations aimed at improving patient outcomes, care coordination, and staffing, ultimately enhancing quality and safety.
Make care decisions faster
Get results for most tests in about 2 minutes. With accurate, lab-quality results available in real-time at the bedside, care decisions can be made more quickly, leading to better patient outcomes and positively affecting key metrics across the care process.
Use resources more wisely
Effectively direct resources where they are needed most to speed up the time from arrival to decision-making. In fact, one study reported an 11% decrease in overall emergency department care time. Conducting common tests at the point of care also frees up the lab to handle more complex tests, easing the workload on staff.
Make everything more efficient
Using the i-STAT system can significantly improve efficiency in several areas, including faster result times compared to traditional lab testing. For example, one study showed that chest pain patients in the ER experienced a 35-minute reduction in wait times, while a busy cardiovascular ICU was able to shorten patient stays by 44%.
Service & repairs
Nationwide, onsite service is available for new and used lab equipment purchased from Block Scientific. You can get:
- Customized on-site annual service contracts
- Professional installation of all lab equipment
- Equipment familiarization training
- Time and material service visits, if equipment is not under our service contract
- Prompt and reliable service
- In-house service and repairs
- Depot service contracts (repairs conducted at Block Scientific facilities) covering all parts and labor, for many smaller pieces of equipment such as centrifuges and small analyzers under 100 lbs
If anything goes wrong with your system, just contact us.
Guaranteed satisfaction & on-time delivery
Block Scientific has been serving clinical labs across the United States and around the world for more than 40 years. We know what we’re doing. Our international logistics network has delivered analyzers to hard-to-reach places around the world more than three dozen times in 2022 alone.
For your peace of mind, enjoy a 30-day satisfaction guarantee on all products.