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Angie Yost posted a new Topic

Tuesday, Dec 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM

AMR verification of hemoglobin derivatives

We use the GEM 5000 blood gas analyzer which reports tHb, O2Hb, COHb, MetHb, HHB, and sO2. In the operator's manual, all analytes are listed as measured, not calculated. Historically we have only performed semi-annual AMR verification on the tHb with the justification being that the other analytes are just derivatives of this value. I'm wondering what others do.

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Erika Deaton-Mohney BS, MT(ASCP), CPP posted a reply on Re: CGMs

Tuesday, Dec 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Said: Good morning Kristie. While I have not been asked to do this...yet, I know it will be coming on the horizon. I was able to attend a scientific session at the annual ADLM meeting 2025 that covered this topic in greater depth. Yes, other ...

Kristie Kutin posted a new Topic

Monday, Dec 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM

CGMs

Hi all, we have a request from our nursing group to implement some way of documenting CGM values, which would then be used by nursing to determine if the CGM is working as expected. The plan is to compare a glucometer glucose to the GCM and determine if it's within + or - 20% of the glucometer, and they would want all of this charted and automatically calculated, if possible. This all sounds terrible to me for many reasons, but the Endocrine group is claiming we are way behind the times ...

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Autilia Sisti posted a reply on Re: GEM Hemochron 100

Monday, Dec 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM

Said: Is the GEM Web software able to send the ADT transactions to the device? We have the instruments directly connected to RALS, so there is no positive patient ID for my facility.

Patricia Nuttall posted a reply on Re: GEM Hemochron 100

Monday, Dec 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM

Said: I do not think they "talk" to the network bi-directionally so I do not think they have that capability yet.