Venous Blood Gas Samples

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How does your facility collect venous blood gases? Do you allow sample to be drawn in a green lithium heparin tube or require blood to be drawn in a heparinized syringe--or allow both samples?
Thanks
Kim

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Terry Rose

Mon Oct 25, 2021 at 4:06PM

We require a blood gas syringe to eliminate air contamination.

Gloria MacLean

Mon Oct 25, 2021 at 4:07PM

We use both the lithium heparin tubes and heparinized syringes. If they're sent to the lab for analysis on the ABL90s, they should be on ice. If it's POCT, they are immediately analyzed on a Siemens EPOC.
We also allow for capillary samples using the EPOC Care-fill capillary collection system. We run capillary samples on the ABL90s as well, using the long, heparinized capillary tubes.

Judy Thompson

Tue Oct 26, 2021 at 7:59AM

We require a blood gas syringe for arterial or venous samples. We use capillary tubes for newborn gases.
According to our instrument manuals, plastic tubes are not recommended for measuring pO2, so we do not allow them for ABG testing. Also, shipping on ice is not recommended for pO2 testing.

Anita Belanger

Wed Oct 27, 2021 at 8:09AM

On the i-STAT, we use heparinized capillary tubes, lithium heparin tube, or blood gas syringe.

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