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Jess Reinhart posted a new Topic
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026 at 10:25 AM
ABG Syringes (Backorder issue)
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I am not sure if other facilities are experiencing the same hardship as us, but the syringes we used for ABGs are on backorder until June 2026.... Our Respiratory team is now trying to find alternatives to utilized or alternative testing methods. So far most alternative syringes won't work because they have too many cc's of heparin and aren't big enough to gather enough blood to dilute the heparin in the syringes. As far as alternative testing methods we were thinking of ...
I am not sure if other facilities are experiencing the same hardship as us, but the syringes we used for ABGs are on backorder until June 2026.... Our Respiratory team is now trying to find alternatives to utilized or alternative testing methods. So far most alternative syringes won't work because they have too many cc's of heparin and aren't big enough to gather enough blood to dilute the heparin in the syringes. As far as alternative testing methods we were thinking of ...
Peggy Mann posted a reply on Re: Non-blood testing on iSTAT
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Said: Hello Maral,Has your transplant and perfusion team investigated through their professional circles, societies, professional organizations, this challenge they are pushing out to you/your lab team? Your venture may not be as...
Angie Yost posted a reply on Re: Non-blood testing on iSTAT
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Said: I think the CAP/CLIA guidelines for lab developed testing/off-label use would apply here (and would turn it into a high complexity test). Are these samples currently tested on a different analyzer? If so, you would want to d...
Lori Pattison posted a reply on Re: COM. 04250
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Said: We do two comparison studies. One with our back up i-STATs to our primary i-STAT. We use 5 months of QC data to do the comparison. We have 20 i-STATs. We have a Primary i-STAT that all other i-STATs get compared to (we...
Debra Howard posted a reply on Re: COM. 04250
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Said: On our ISTATs we run a control twice/year-L1 first half and L3 second half. We run it on the cartridges/ISTATS each department utilizes, with our loaners being tested on all cartridge types. Successfully correlation is a "Pass" result (...
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