Point of care diagnostic platform

• US 20070059204A1
• Filed: 09/06/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: FasTraq, Inc. (Quantech Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: FasTraq, Inc. (Quantech Ltd.)
• Inventors: Case, Robert, Witty, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/517,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20070059204A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 422/58
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/05 Flow-through cuvettes G01N21/09 takes precedence; handling fluid samples G01N1/10
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/5302 Apparatus specially adapted for immunological test procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/40 for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g. patient specimen analysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 436/11 Automated chemical analysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 436/115831 Condition or time responsive
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 436/117497 with a continuously flowing sample or carrier stream
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 436/118339 with formation of a segmented stream

Abstract

Disclosed is a point of care diagnostic system that includes an analytic cartridge adapted to receive a blood draw tube such that the cartridge can directly accept a blood sample from the blood draw tube. The cartridge is adapted to perform an assay on the blood sample and to produce an indication of an assay result entirely within the cartridge.

Claims

1. A point of care diagnostic system, comprising:

an analytic cartridge adapted to receive a blood draw tube such that the cartridge can directly accept a blood sample from the blood draw tube, the cartridge adapted to perform an assay on the blood sample and to produce an indication of an assay result entirely within the cartridge.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge includes a dock for receiving a draw tube.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge includes at least one flow channel fluidly coupled to a draw tube when the draw tube is mounted in the cartridge.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the cartridge includes a calibration chamber fluidly coupled to the flow channel.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the cartridge includes a waste chamber fluidly coupled to the flow channel.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge includes wet and dry chemistries.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge includes at least one of immunoassay, hematology, electrolyte, general chemistry and molecular diagnostic capabilities.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge is bar-coded.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the cartridge is bar-coded with information for test protocols, and lot expiration dates.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein fluids are retained and sealed in the cartridge.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridges include serialized identification.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein a sample ID barcode is attached to the cartridge for automatic patient identification.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein a sample contained in a draw tube is removable after analysis.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge includes wet and dry chemistries and at least one substrate that carries a chemistry.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge is configured to isolate biohazards in the cartridge from an operator of the cartridge.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge is configured to provide introduction of a blood sample to the cartridge while isolating biohazards in the cartridge from an operator.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge is configured to provide introduction of a blood sample to the cartridge without exposing an operator to patient material in the cartridge.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge is configured to provide removal of a blood sample from a vial and introduction of the blood sample to the cartridge without exposing the patient or an operator to the blood sample.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge is configured to provide that an operator is not exposed to contents in the cartridge.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein the cartridge is configured to work with whole blood.