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Beta-2 Transferrin: The Tau of Trauma

One of our lab techs posed a question about beta-2 transferrin testing on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Because beta-2 transferrin is a normal constituent of CSF, but not of plasma or mucosal secretions, it is useful in determining whether a patient’s nose or ear is leaking CSF versus some other fluid. This is important in determining [...]

Testing-testing: You want fries with that INR?

This is a superficial post on point-of-care (POC) testing touching on general background info. This topic and especially “Lab On A Chip (LOC)” has been addressed several times by Dr. Friedman in LabSoftNews (see links tab to the right). Over a dinner of delicious home-cooked food, my mother, in a perpetual exercise to understand the [...]