[Critical care testing: SFBC recommendations in 2018]

Ann Biol Clin (Paris). 2018 Jan 1;76(1):23-44. doi: 10.1684/abc.2017.1313.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The SFBC Working Group on critical care testing describes in this paper the SFBC recommendations for the determination of maximal turnaround times (TAT) for laboratory medicine examination in emergency conditions. The table presented in a previous paper was updated, taken into account the clinical situations, as well as the emergency response capabilities of the medical laboratory. These new French recommendations must to be based to each local situation in a clinical-biological context between the physicians and the specialist in Lab Medicine.

Keywords: ISO 15189; accreditation; critical care testing; guidelines; turnaround time.

Publication types

  • Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

  • Accreditation
  • Critical Care* / classification
  • Critical Care* / methods
  • Critical Care* / organization & administration
  • Critical Care* / standards
  • Emergencies / classification
  • France
  • Humans
  • Medical Laboratory Science / organization & administration
  • Medical Laboratory Science / standards*
  • Point-of-Care Testing / standards*
  • Professional Practice / standards*
  • Societies, Medical / standards