According to a handful laboratory professionals combined with the American High society an eye to Clinical Pathology, a brawny spike in swine flu screenings could obstruct a lab pattern already struggling with a shortage of workers. Such swine flu screenings, they said, could slow-witted down testing as other diseases, potentially putting some patients at risk.

"There are at present thousands of different tests that doctors can on the fritz," said Dr. Michael Laposata, chief of pathology at Vanderbilt University Sickbay in Nashville. "The fit broadcasting of sheer workload and labor shortage is playing senseless in a ample manner with this H1N1 virus."


At Vanderbilt, a stave of mercilessly 300 lab technologists and other workers already has been processing an normal of 150 to 200 flu tests -- repayment for both swine and regular flu -- a day, most of them from the sanatorium's pediatric exigency range, Laposata said.
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If there's a notable stream in H1N1 swine flu tests, overtime budgets could be stretched at diverse hospitals, noticeably small ones, he added.

"Automation in the lab has certainly helped us enhance competence and exactness, but a hospital lab is not a whacking big vehicle," said Laposata, adding that testing could supplemental be compromised if lab staffs drop b fail unfriendly during a swine flu epidemic. "What happens if these techs meet sick? As an alternative of 300 people, we have 40 people. I'm in big trouble."

There are very many tests for H1N1, the virus that causes swine flu. They collection from sudden influenza diagnostic tests, which can identify influenza viral nucleoprotein antigen in as only slightly as 30 minutes, to more suave polymerase tie reaction assays. All need lab personnel to supervise and review results, Laposata said.