Platelet Assessment Has Never Been More Important
Antiplatelet medications play a critical role in cardiovascular and neurovascular care. When it comes to managing patients on antiplatelet therapies, the lab plays a critical role for physicians—a significant fact considering that up to one-third of all patients may not receive the expected antiplatelet effect.1
Patients who are not responding adequately to their antiplatelet therapy may be at significantly greater risk for ischemic events.2-5
Additionally, cardiac surgery is frequently delayed for an average of five to seven days in order to minimize bleeding complications resulting from platelet inhibiting drugs.
Assessing platelet reactivity in the presence of these antiplatelet therapies allows physicians to ensure that their patients are compliant and understand how the patient’s platelets are responding to their medications. Measuring the real-time antiplatelet effect of medications can also assist surgeons in scheduling surgery by ensuring that patients’ platelet reactivity has returned to baseline prior to surgery.
Why the VerifyNow® Solution?
1) Unlike other platelet function tests that measure bleeding time or diagnose platelet disorders, the VerifyNow System measures the effect of the antiplatelet medication, which helps to assess an individual patient’s platelet response to antiplatelet therapy after antiplatelet medications have been administered.
2) The VerifyNow System’s clinical utility and analytical performance is backed by over 200 peer-reviewed studies.7 It is the most clinically studied of any rapid method to assess platelet reactivity. The VerifyNow System provides laboratorians and clinicians the clinical and analytical data to appropriately select and integrate the VerifyNow System and test results into practice.
3) The VerifyNow System provides you with an easy and rapid solution to assess a patient’s platelet response:
• Provides results in minutes*
• Requires little hands-on time
• Uses whole blood, closed tube samples
• Requires no pipetting or sample preparation, thus reducing the risk of pre-analytical error
• Replaces more cumbersome and time-consuming methods
• Is reimbursable through CPT and ICD 9 codes
*additional sample incubation required, varies by test
Backed by numerous peer-reviewed studies that demonstrate clinical utility and analytical performance, the VerifyNow System provides you with an easy and rapid solution to help you assess your patient’s response to aspirin, Plavix®, Effient®, Ticlid®, ReoPro® and Integrilin®.
