Join Specialist IBD Nurses Sue Ritchie and Vicky Fletcher from County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust as they share their experiences using the innovative IBDoc for patient-centered IBD care. With decades of experience and a passion for excellence, Sue and Vicky support around 2,000 IBD patients across the North East, spanning areas from Cumbria…
The packaging for the BÜHLMANN fCAL turbo® calibrator and control kits is changing from the current opaque white bottles to transparent vials with colour coded droppers and caps, as shown below: The new format will enable: The user to see what volume is left in the vial, making handing easier Colour coding makes it easier…
University of Edinburgh Easter Bush School and Hospital for Small Animals The University of Edinburgh’s Easter Bush Clinical Pathologists and Hospital for Small Animals’ Specialists in Internal Medicine, have validated the BÜHLMANN fCAL® turbo assay for use on their Beckman analyser. The test has now been made available by the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary…
A New Era at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was established in February 2000 and is the largest acute hospital trust in the South East of England. Dave Parris and Yolanda Price from the Blood Sciences department talk about their experience evolving their calprotectin testing service. “Switching from…
In the Autumn of 2023, technical specialists from BÜHLMANN visited Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital (GOSH) to collaboratively establish a protocol for integrating the new BÜHLMANN sCAL turbo into their Ortho Vitros analyser. This move aimed to facilitate the transition of the immunology team from the conventional ELISA method to the advanced PETIA assay for…
In 2014, the CALEX Cap transformed faecal calprotectin extraction workflows in laboratories. Now, with CALEX faecal calprotectin collection kits, patients can prepare and return their own samples, eliminating the need for traditional stool samples. The lab receives a ready-to-use CALEX, streamlining the testing process. This revolutionary shift maximises laboratory resources, reshaping calprotectin testing workflows significantly.…
An interview with Prof. Dr. Patrick van Rheenen University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands Can you introduce yourself and your organization? My name is Patrick van Rheenen and I work at the University Medical Centre in Groningen (the Netherlands). I am a clinical researcher into paediatric inflammatory bowel disease. How did you choose IBDoc® for…
Alison Jones, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, York and Scarborough NHS Foundation Trust It is well documented that liquid/watery stool samples should not be tested for faecal elastase due to the risk of a false low result suggesting pancreatic insufficiency (a false positive). This is not a failure of the assay – it works in exactly the…
Dr Peter Rimmer, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham We are all very familiar with the use of faecal calprotectin testing to help distinguish inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) from functional disorders, and it has become a staple tool to support the clinical teams in their diagnosis and management of patients. If a negative faecal calprotectin result…
Following on from the success of the fCAL® turbo and the fPELA® assays, BÜHLMANN has now launched the sCAL® turbo for serum calprotectin, that operates on the same principles as its predecessors. The BÜHLMANN sCAL® turbo runs on the mainstream clinical chemistry analysers and the time to first result is 10 minutes, with further results…