HOSPITAL BUYS TESTING MACHINE NEW SYSTEM WILL SHORTEN STAYS FOR PATIENTS.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - With money raised by volunteers involved in the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital's Auxiliary auxiliary In grammar, a verb that is subordinate to the main lexical verb in a clause. Auxiliaries can convey distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. , Guild and Foundation, the hospital has bought new state-of-the-art laboratory equipment to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients and to help reduce the length of a hospital stay. Newhall Memorial recently completed the installation of three new pieces of equipment in its laboratory - Ortho Clinical Diagnostic's Vitros Chemistry System 950 and 250 and the Vitros Immuno Diagnostic System Eci - which are used to analyze blood chemistries such as electrolytes and liver function tests Liver Function Tests Definition Liver function tests, or LFTs, include tests for bilirubin, a breakdown product of hemoglobin, and ammonia, a protein byproduct that is normally converted into urea by the liver before being excreted by the kidneys. . ``Just about every patient in the hospital needs blood analysis,'' said Cindy Martin, supervisor of chemistry at the hospital. ``It can be used to check most organ systems to find out if there's something wrong and it helps the physician determine the diagnosis.'' The new blood analysis equipment is significantly faster, more accurate and reliable than the hospital's former system, shaving anywhere from 10 minutes on certain tests that were done in-house to three to five days on those that were sent to an outside lab. ``Every minute counts in the ER, so if we're able to save 10 minutes, that's huge,'' said Dr. Roger Der, co-director of labs at Newhall Memorial. ``We can now do additional tests that we previously had to send to an outside lab, such as vitamin B vitamin B n. 1. Vitamin B complex. 2. A member of the vitamin B complex, especially thiamine. vitamin B, vitamin B complex a group of water-soluble substances described separately. 12, folate folate /fo·late/ (fo´lat) 1. the anionic form of folic acid. 2. more generally, any of a group of substances containing a form of pteroic acid conjugated with l-glutamic acid and having a variety of substitutions. and hepatitis tests. We get results back in an hour instead of several days, which means a patient's diagnosis is made sooner, treatment begins faster and a patient's stay is shortened short·en v. short·ened, short·en·ing, short·ens v.tr. 1. To make short or shorter. 2. .'' The lab performs about 50,000 blood chemistry tests a month, and the new equipment allows the hospital to increase capacity to 950 tests per hour and serve more outpatients. ``This new equipment makes us a technologically advanced laboratory,'' said Paul Solomon, senior vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . ``Doctors and patients will greatly benefit from its speed and accuracy. Overall, it will help improve patient care.'' Solomon added that the equipment could not have been purchased without the funding raised by the Auxiliary, Guild and Foundation. ``Every year, they work very hard and very graciously gra·cious adj. 1. Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy. 2. Characterized by tact and propriety: responded to the insult with gracious humor. 3. to support some of our major priorities, and we are grateful for their efforts. They have a direct impact on the improvement in patient care in our community,'' he said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Cindy Martin, supervisor of chemistry at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, loads specimens into one of the hospital's new testing machines testing machine Machine used in materials science to determine the properties of a material. Machines have been devised to measure tensile strength, strength in compression, shear, and bending (see strength of materials), ductility, hardness, impact strength ( . |
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