Challenges of Saliva Testing

Lab Medicine Rounds

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

00:53 Why is the medical field interested in saliva?

02:00 What sorts of information could be gleaned from saliva?

03:17 Are there certain limitations of what could come out of saliva testing?

04:56 Can you elaborate what you mean when you say “matrix?”

06:16 How do you approach navigating what could be interferences?

08:16 Would that be considered part of the matrix? Or is the matrix just the specimen itself?

9:29 Could you elaborate those preanalytic variables a clinician may have top of mind, or what might be in their sphere of control, influence, awareness?

11:41 What’s your advice to laboratory professionals about how we can detect when these kinds of things are going awry, or how do you keep your finger on the pulse of how your colleagues on the clinical side are using your tests?

13:34 What do you see as the future for saliva testing like?

14:54 Outro

Resources:

https://www.aacc.org/cln/articles/2022/janfeb/saliva-in-the-spotlight

https://news.mayocliniclabs.com/2022/04/07/darci-block-ph-d-discusses-saliva-testing-in-aaccs-clinical-laboratory-news/