CASE STUDY
Copenhagen Hospital validates new PTS installation with fraction of donor blood
Bispebjerg Hospital
Copenhagen, Denmark · 530 beds · View Website
Collaborators:
Ida Stangerup, MD
Henriette Pia Sennels, MD, PhD
“In the future, we would approve new PTS lines for blood-sample transportation solely based on VitalQC.”
Dr. Ida Stangerup
Bispebjerg Hospital
Challenge
To fulfill accreditation requirements, the laboratory at Bispebjerg Hospital needed to validate a newly installed pneumatic tube system (PTS) to ensure it was safe to transport blood samples prior to commissioning. Traditional validation comparing hand-carried blood samples to those transported by PTS would require hundreds of donor samples, and would be time consuming, expensive, laborious, and a major logistical challenge.
Solution
Dr. Ida Stangerup chose to use VitalQC as it provided a repeatable way to validate the PTS, with the major benefit of simplifying the process. With the VitalVial acting as a surrogate sample, the need for blood is greatly reduced.
Results
By measuring vibration in all lines and then selecting only the lines with the highest risk to impact specimen integrity for clinical testing, the laboratory reduced its need for donor samples by 50%.
The laboratory will use VitalQC and its protocol to validate the next phase of the installation, including 40 new PTS lines as part of an expansion project.
About Bispebjerg Hospital
Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital is one of four emergency hospitals in the Capital Region around Copenhagen, Denmark. The teaching hospital, affiliated with the University of Copenhagen, has 530 beds, 80,000 emergency visits, and 400,000 outpatient visits per year.
They are currently building 85,000 new square meters and converting 12,000 square meters into "New Hospital Bispebjerg", committed to high quality and outstanding patient experience.
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