Neonatal Blood gas monitoring
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Our NICU was using a VIA blood gas monitoring system for pH, pCO2, pO2, Na, K, and HCT. This monitoring system has been discontinued so they are looking for a replacement that will use very little blood for their very low birth weight babies that need frequent blood gas samples. Wondering what other NICU's are using for blood gases on these types of patients - either another monitoring system like the VIA or a POC analyzer?
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We are using several devices, depending on the location. We have RapidPoint 500e in one NICU. Advantage is that it can also do nbili. We have a GEM5000 in another hospital. We also have Epoc at our Women's Hospital NICU. All of these have their pluses and minuses, but all do the job. I believe they all use a sample size of about 100 microliters.
We are using Radiometer ABL90 Flex plus analyzers and can run capillary samples. They have special safe Pico capillary syringes with mixing bars
included in the devices. We have also previously used the Siemens ePOC devices with capillary samples as well.
Good luck!