About
My name is Kipkurui Ngeno from Kenya. Kipkurui Ngeno has more than seven years' experience as a medical laboratory officer and close to five years as a quality assurance officer. Currently, Kipkurui is medical laboratory officer at Tenwek Hospital, where he focuses on ensuring the accurate, reliable, and prompt reporting of test results. His major achievement in the field is that he led the Tenwek Hospital laboratory to attain accreditation on ISO 15189:2012. Kipkurui holds a bachelor's degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences from Technical University of Kenya. Outside his clinical work, Kipkurui volunteers as chair of the Board of Management at a primary school, where his main mandate is to enhance good governance and development in the school. Kipkurui is a recipient of Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders award, where he attended Howard University to pursue Leadership in Public Management course.
Current Work
High-sensitive Troponin is a laboratory test routinely done on patients suspected to have myocardial infarction (MI). High-sensitivity troponin assays have greatly improved the analytical performance of conventional cardiac troponin T and I testing. In many African countries, clinical laboratory reference intervals have not been established, and Western country-based reference intervals are usually used in many diagnostic laboratories and clinical trials to screen, diagnose, and monitor different disease states. In a country like Kenya, almost all available clinical laboratories rely on reference intervals obtained either from textbooks or from the package kit inserts provided by the manufacturers. The considerable differences in the established reference intervals in several countries and population groups may increase the chance of unnecessary additional investigations, failure to detect the specified abnormalities related to underlying disease states or mismanagement of patient
Research Area Keyword(s)
ESTABLISHMENT OF REFERENCE INTERVALS FOR TROPONIN