Be where patients

need you most

Make patient-side
testing the nexus of care
hospital-wide with the
epoc Blood Analysis System
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 Advance care delivery by bringing
critical testing patient-side with
the epoc® Blood Analysis System
What could happen when critical testing results are
delivered at the patient’s side in less than 1 minute?

Patient diagnosis and treatment The streamlined testing workflow

may happen faster. could help reduce costs.

Integrated Patient Safety

Patient safety may be Outcomes could improve,
ated Simplified
enhanced with a simplified and a complete, consistent clinical
surance Process testing process and picture would be accessible across
Positive integrated positive patient
Automated ID.
Simplified the care continuum.
Patient ID Quality Assurance Process

The hospital
Empowered by Design may make
better use of resources.
ified Optimized Use of
ess Time and Resources,
Reduced Costs
Automated Simplified Optimized Use of
Quality Assurance Process Time and Resources,
are Reduced Costs

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cTCO2
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Hct
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the care team, and the therapy they deliver.

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Comprehensive menu
consisting of blood gases,
a basic metabolic panel along
with hematocrit and lactate

pH pCO2 pO2 TCO2 Na+ K+ Ca++ Cl– Hct Glu Lac Crea BUN

With the epoc Blood Analysis System as the nexus of care, caregivers
and the laboratory can stay connected to what’s important—being where
patients need them most.
The epoc system lets you be
where patients need you most Integrated
Patient
Safety
The epoc system connects the entire team, so it doesn’t matter if the
laboratory staff and caregivers work in different parts of the hospital.
With the epoc system, they stand together to advance care delivery.

Caregivers spend more time with the patient to

drive faster diagnosis and treatment decisions.
How can enhanced safety and a simplified testing
process provide confidence and peace of mind?

With easy access to test cards available at
the patient’s side spend less time on more
complex workflows to get actionable results
Results can be available in less than a
minute and accurately reflect a patient’s
immediate condition.
“The immediate introduction at the bedside of
a patient’s blood sample into an epoc test card
minimizes preanalytical sample degradation.”
Clarke Woods, BS, and Dave Culton, BA.
Pinnacle Health
Enhance patient safety with a secure,
wireless connection to confirm real-time
patient identification to mitigate data
entry and transcription errors
“The purpose of the 2017 National Patient
Safety Goals is to improve patient safety.
Two goals highlighted to address problems
were to identify patients correctly and
improve staff communication.”
The Joint Commission Accreditation Hospital

Traditional testing models require multiple steps including transport to a stationary

analyzer which takes up precious time that may delay availability of results.

“We are talking 30 mins on a test and that is a STAT because that is just the process. That’s just how long
it takes there’s nothing you can do about that.” 1
Kristie Campbell, Huntsville Hospital

Actionable results in less than 1 minute at the patient’s side.

Results reflect the patient’s immediate condition, not their condition 30 minutes ago.

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BE(ecf) cSO2
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mmol/L %

Chem+

Na+ K+ Ca++
128 4.5 1.05
mmol/L mmol/L mmol/L

cTCO2 Hct

13.6 13
mmol/L %

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Scan ID Badge and Confirm Positive Collect Sample Perform Test Review and Transmit
Insert Test Card Patient ID Results and Deliver Therapy
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by Design

The laboratory spends less time on complex inventory

management, optimizing time and resource utilization.
What does a single room temperature stable
test card with barcoded expiration deliver?

Automated quality assurance eliminating Streamlined inventory management

the risk of running expired reagents further by doing away with the manual
mitigating risk of diagnosis and treatment tracking of reagents once removed
based on erroneous results from refrigeration

“Each reagent for the epoc has direct bar coding,
ensuring easy traceability.”
Shweta Agarwal, MD, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas
Children’s Hospital
“The epoc system uses a single test card with all the
different analytes whereas a competitor system uses
multiple test cartridges for the same results. Lastly,
the smart card technology of epoc reduces cost and
maximizes efficiency in the hospital setting.”
Shweta Agarwal, MD, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s
Hospital

Freedom to focus on where you bring

the most value to patient care.
Barcoded test cards automate quality assurance and
a single room temperature stable test card streamlines
inventory management.

Barcoded to eliminate
the risk of running an
expired test card.
Leverage centralized control of
decentralized testing with secure, Connected
Comprehensive
wireless communication and our Care

POC Ecosystem™ Solutions

Build an open, vendor-neutral testing environment powered by
Siemens Healthineers POC Informatics to reduce the complexity and
improve the efficiency of your operations. Easily connect multiple epoc,
RAPIDPoint®, and RAPIDLab® solutions to your existing infrastructure.

Manage, configure, control, and troubleshoot

testing on epoc, RAPIDPoint, and RAPIDLab
blood gas systems with our POC Ecosystem
Solution. Use POCcelerator™ Data Management
Point of Care
System to monitor information from every
connected analyzer, including epoc Blood
Analysis Systems and compatible test devices
Ecosystem ™

from more than 40 manufacturers. Enabled

Whatever your device mix and wherever critical
testing takes place, Siemens Healthineers POC
Informatics helps advance workforce productivity,
improve clinical workflows, satisfy compliance
and accreditation requirements, and optimize
the management of resources.

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customizing without compromise
The Siemens Healthineers critical care portfolio delivers solutions that transform care

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delivery by offering the right test in the right place at the right time. From handheld to
robust central laboratory solutions, our portfolio enables increased efficiency and
shorter time to diagnosis. Open, connected solutions let clinicians access shared data
seconds
when and where it is needed for fast clinical decision making and more efficient
management of resources. Decrease the time to diagnosis and intervention with a
comprehensive menu of tests that fit your workflow. Order fewer retests and have 60 seconds to
more confidence in results with a customized configuration of analyzers whose results result from the
correlate, no matter where testing takes place. entire portfolio

epoc Blood Analysis System RAPIDPoint 500e

with the NXS Host Blood Gas System
Make patient-side testing the Elevate your
nexus of care hospital-wide. blood gas solution.

Handheld system that provides Comprehensive, cartridge-based

comprehensive critical care results at the testing with heightened operational
patient’s side in less than 1 minute and is simplicity and system security.
integrated for patient safety. The system Integri-sense™ Technology enables
delivers a streamlined patient testing total confidence in every patient
process that advances care delivery and result. Sampling procedure is
accelerates clinical decisions while hands-free and standardized for
empowering the laboratory and both syringes and capillaries.
caregivers to optimize their use of time Sample types include dialysate*
and resources. It also serves as the nexus and pleural fluid pH applications.
of care—connecting the patient and test
results to caregivers and the laboratory
and delivering a complete,
comprehensive clinical picture.

RAPIDLab 1200 RAPIDLab 348EX

Blood Gas Systems Blood Gas System*
Meet high-throughput needs Deliver efficient critical care
in labs and at the point of care. testing in labs and clinics.

Cartridge-based operation using one Robust, reliable analytical

sampling procedure. Microsample performance on whole blood
mode is ideal for neonatal and dialysate fluid* for the
applications, with precise results most essential parameters.
available from as little as 35 µL Minimal maintenance, with
of whole blood. Proven Ready convenient front-panel
Sensor® electrode technology access to all sensors,
assures measurement accuracy reagents, and waste.
with reliable, long-life stability.

*Not available for sale in the U.S. Product availability may vary from country to country and is
subject to varying regulatory requirements. Please contact your local representative for availability.
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providers to increase value by empowering them on their 1. Making a Difference at Huntsville Hospital
journey toward expanding precision medicine, transforming video. Kristie Campbell et al. Huntsville
care delivery, and improving patient experience, all made Hospital. August 2016.
possible by digitalizing healthcare. 2. Clarke Woods, BS, and Dave Culton, BA.
Pinnacle Health Proven. 2012.
An estimated 5 million patients globally benefit every day from 3. Agarwal S, Shafi R, et al. Point of Care. 2014
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and therapeutic imaging, laboratory diagnostics, and molecular 4. Chen J, et al. Clinical Biochemistry. 2016.
medicine, as well as digital health and enterprise services. 5. The Joint Commission Accreditation
Hospital. 2017 patient safety goals.
We are a leading medical technology company with over 120 years Available from: www.jointcommission.org.
of experience and 18,000 patents globally. Through the dedication
of more than 50,000 colleagues in 75 countries, we will continue
to innovate and shape the future of healthcare.

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