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Positive patient identification (PPID) is an approach to avoiding patient misidentification for the prevention of medical errors, which include errors in medication, transfusion, and testing, as well as wrong-person procedures and the discharge of ... Read More

Monitoring patient glucose levels and determining the diabetic patient’s response to intervention is critical to the long-term health of the patient with diabetes. Read More

Clinical chemistry analyzers run assays on clinical samples such as blood serum, plasma, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid to detect the presence of analytes relating to disease or drugs. Clinical chemistry analyzers are used in a variety of settings, ... Read More

Diaphragm vacuum pumps with flow paths constructed of fluoropolymers like PTFE (e.g., Teflon®, DuPont, Wilmington, DE) offer tremendous advantages for laboratories. Compared with the use of traditional oil-sealed rotary vane pumps for moving ... Read More

Diabetes is a chronic disease resulting from lack of insulin (type 1 diabetes mellitus [DM]), or the combination of insulin resistance, insufficient insulin, and abnormal glucagon secretion (type 2 DM). Of the patients with DM, only 5% to 10% have ... Read More

Among the human pathogenic fungi are both yeasts and molds. The most common human pathogenic fungi are the yeast-like Candida species (spp.), and the most common invasive molds are the Aspergillus spp. Read More

The Epstein Barr virus (EBV), which causes infectious mononucleosis (IM) or “mono,” is one of the most common human viruses. EBV occurs worldwide, and most people become infected with EBV sometime during their lives. In the United States, as many as ... Read More