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James Beck posted a reply on Re: Intra osseous blood sample on the ISTAT
Tuesday, Jun 6, 2017 at 11:14 AM
Said: : "Just throwing this out there (because I have no knowledge of what pediatric trauma is like)...I can understand why venous access could be compromised in a trauma situation, but isn't arterial an option? Can't you, in any situation, obtai...
Ivy Douglas posted a reply on Re: Intra osseous blood sample on the ISTAT
Tuesday, Jun 6, 2017 at 11:11 AM
Said: : "We have had this issue before, typically they put OTHR in as a sample type and we catch it that way but not always. We tell them it is not allowed for the same reasons as Deanna stated; it's not the same as circulating blood, especially ...
Deanna Bogner posted a reply on Re: Intra osseous blood sample on the ISTAT
Tuesday, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:32 AM
Said: : "IO samples are different from venous blood. If they are using EZIO, the vendor has a white paper which states how the samples differ from venous blood. The biggest Chemistry differences are NA and K.
Hematology is where it is really sca...
Debra Howard posted a new Topic
Tuesday, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:42 AM
Intra osseous blood sample on the ISTAT
: "I am reaching out to any of you out there that handle pediatric traumas. My hospital just recently opened a trauma unit in the emergency department. The trauma docs want to run intra osseous "blood" (it's actually bone marrow) in critical situations where they cannot obtain venous samples. Accepted ISTAT sources include only arterial, venous and..."
Karen Robinson posted a reply on Re: Bedside glucose meter options - what do you...
Tuesday, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:24 AM
Said: : "No, we do have the newer meter style with the strip port on the bottom. But they are not wireless."
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