Emergency laboratory and general analytics

Immediate laboratory diagnostics play an essential role in the assessment of patients, particularly in the case of emergency hospital admission and critical illness. For this reason, the IKC offers analysis of around 60 vital or diagnostically urgent parameters, such as cardiac markers, inflammation markers, renal function, cerebrospinal fluid markers and drugs of abuse, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Outside of routine working hours, the Institute of Clinical Chemistry carries out time-critical virus and autoantibody diagnostics (hepatitis, HIV, EBV, CMV, rapid PCR tests for influenza or SARS-CoV2) for the Department of Immunology and the Institute of Medical Virology as an interdisciplinary emergency laboratory. More than 90% of emergency analyses are carried out at the IKC within one hour and the results are communicated to the attending physicians.