Technologies of "Dry" Chemistry and their Use for Implementation of Express Analysis at the Patient’s Place of Stay (Review of Modern Information)

ABSTRACT

The article describes the methodology and technology of laboratory research using the methods of "dry" chemistry that are are implemented using test strips of the first and second generation. The modern information about the design of test systems of different generations and the distinctive features of the chemical-analytical processes performed in them is presented. An idea of the equipment used for objective registration of the results of analytical research is given. The sequence of its implementation is given;attention is paid to the factors that can distort the results of the study. The areas of possible application of test systems for diagnostics of various somatic diseases are characterized. An idea is given about the laboratory diagnostic panels as combinations of indicators of laboratory tests traditionally used for laboratory diagnostics of diseases of the vital organs and various forms of infectious pathology. The set of different panels created in the second generation test strips that implement the immunochromatographic analysis makes a kind of "laboratory in a pocket" that can be used by a general practitioner directly at the patient’s location. © The Authors.