Abbott I-Stat Specimen Change
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Hi I-Stat users:
Since Abbott is no longer recommending the use of Sodium Heparin tubes to collect specimens for cartridges containing Sodium i.e. Chem 8 cartridges, is anyone re-validating and re-correlating with Lithium Heparin tubes if you used Sodium Heparin tubes in the past. Not following manufacturer's directions for the Chem 8 will make the test non-waived. Abbott does not have an answer as of yet.
Thanks for your help,
Tammy Wolfram, M.S.
Manager, Microbiology & POC
Allentown, PA 18102
610-776-4738: Point-of-Care Testing
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Good evening all since last year we have notice that when using sodium heparin blood collections tubes on the istat there was always an increase in patients sodium not to mention having sometimes to repolarise patients. We did a valadation using mixed venous blood gas samples with lithum heparin and did the same using the istat Chem8 and then compared a sodium serum sample from the same patient as well..abd the results we compatable