Books by Kent Balanis (Pathology Associates Massachusetts General Hospital) Lewandrowski

Presents topics of importance in Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) for laboratory medicine professionals. This work covers topics such as: POCT - An overview and look to the future; Fine needle aspiration biopsy - POCT in cytopathology; Drugs of abuse; POCT and disaster response; POCT regulatory affairs; Fecal occult blood testing; and, Molecular POCT.

Includes topics such as: overview of cardiac markers in heart disease; methodologies for measurement of cardiac markers; natriuretic peptides in HF and ACS; tropoinins and high sensitivity troponins; point-of-care testing for cardiac markers; and ST-2 and galectin 3 in patients with heart failure.