Feedback on the Implementation of a Rapid and Connectable Point-of-Care COVID-19 Antigen Test in an Emergency Department

Caroline Coulon; Anne-Sophie Bargnoux; Océane Jourdan; Vincent Foulongne; Anne-Marie Mondain; Anne-Marie Dupuy; Mustapha Sebbane; Jean-Paul Cristol

doi:10.3390/diagnostics13233508

Feedback on the Implementation of a Rapid and Connectable Point-of-Care COVID-19 Antigen Test in an Emergency Department

Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 Nov 22;13(23):3508. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13233508.

Authors

Caroline Coulon¹, Anne-Sophie Bargnoux², Océane Jourdan¹, Vincent Foulongne³, Anne-Marie Mondain³, Anne-Marie Dupuy^{1

4}, Mustapha Sebbane⁵, Jean-Paul Cristol²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Hormonology, University Hospital of Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France.
² Department of Biochemistry and Hormonology, University Hospital of Montpellier, PhyMedExp, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France.
³ Department of Virology, University Hospital of Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France.
⁴ Centre de Ressources Biologiques, University Hospital of Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital of Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France.

Abstract

Faced with the pandemic viral circulation of SARS-CoV-2, healthcare establishments have had to maintain an effective screening strategy in order to prevent nosocomial clusters. Automated antigenic tests appear to be a reliable and complementary alternative to RT-PCR (reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction) in order to optimize patient care in the emergency department. We report our experience of the deployment of the LumiraDx antigen tests on the LumiraDx platform, as well as the comparison of these tests' results with the RT-PCR results on a population of patients sampled in the emergency department.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; antigen test; point-of-care.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.