NICU Analyzer

I-Stat EC8 and white CG4 cartridges. Less blood. Sorry about the tBil though....that is sent to main lab.

We have ABL90s. They have TBIL, but Radiometer is awaiting FDA approval for Creat.

We have Nova Prime Plus and Siemens Epocs in NICU.  Neither have tBIL.  Both have creat.
Prime Plus also has co-oximetry which is required in our NICU and iMg too.

We use RapidPoint 500e in one of our NICUs. It does blood gas, metabolites, and nBILI. We are happy with it; not much blood needed and easy to maintain.
Other sites use the GEM5000. Equally small specimen and easy to maintain. They also can do nBILI, blood gas, and metabolites. 
Neither of those does creatinine. The only device I know that does creatinine along with blood gas is the Werfen ChemSTAT. However, they do not do nBILI.

Hello!
Does anyone know if the white CG4+ iSTAT cartridges are FDA approved for use with capillary samples? We have iSTATs in our NICU and are using the blue CG4+ cartridges, which are not FDA approved for use with capillary samples. I do not see the CG4+ white cartridges listed on the FDA/CLIA site. Any insight would be helpful. Thank you!

The white CG4+ cartridges are approved for capillary samples. I believe when Abbott switched to the blue cartridges, they didn't get approval for capillary samples, which had already been approved on the white cartridges many years ago. It was because of this that Abbott continued to sell the white cartridges.

Kathleen is correct. White are still approved for capillary like always. Reach out to your rep for more info. 

Kathleen and Danyel, thank you both. I had no idea that the white CG4+ cartridges were even available as they are not in our available products list. This would have saved us a lot of trouble.
Another question, if I may. Did you develop specific reference ranges for capillary samples???

We did not. At TriCore we use the arterial blood gas ranges for capillary samples.