A Portable Blood Gas Analyzer for Equine Venous Blood

Analytical performance of a portable critical care blood gas analyzer.

The portable blood gas analyzer OPTI Critical Care Analyzer was evaluated in comparison to routine laboratory assays using heparinized blood samples of adults and newborns. Within-run imprecision studies were performed with native blood using tonometry to adjust blood gas concentrations. The results obtained show a very close agreement between the OPTI system and the comparison methods for all ...

Portable blood gas and electrolyte analyzer evaluated in a multiinstitutional study.

A recently introduced blood gas/electrolyte analyzer (SenDx 100((R)), renamed ABL70) intended for point-of-care, near-patient, or stat laboratory use was evaluated simultaneously in four different institutions and compared with three different laboratory bench analyzers with respect to imprecision, inaccuracy (assessed by tonometry), and patient-sample analyses. The analyzer is equipped with a ...

Assessment of a portable clinical blood analyzer during space flight.

This study was designed to validate the utility of a commercial portable clinical blood analyzer (PCBA) in ground-based studies and on the space shuttle. Ionized calcium, pH, electrolytes, glucose, and hematocrit were determined. Results agreed well with those from traditional laboratory methods, and the PCBA demonstrated good between-day precision for all analytes. In-flight analysis of contro...

The significance of the blood gas analyzer.

ONE OF THE MOST RAPID and significant transformations in clinical practice that evolved from physiological research is the development of the modern, integrated blood gas analyzer (1, 2, 4). We take for granted the ability to measure PO2, PCO2, and pH in blood samples quickly and reliably. The significance of this technology has had wide-ranging effects in physiological research and clinical me...

Comparison of a human portable blood glucose monitor, a veterinary portable blood glucose monitor and an automated chemistry analyzer for measuring canine blood glucose concentration