ABL90 Flex Plus vs. GEM5000

I am a huge fan of the GEM 5000s. The main reason is that they run 5 levels of controls and calibration on a continuous basis (every 30 minutes to 24 hours). Because of this, twice per year linearity and an IQCP is not required. 

Tiana, my Health System has the Gem 5000.  I do love it as it’s very hands off.   And as you stated, doesn’t require an IQCP.  However, we still must perform an AMR twice a year.  How are you getting around this?

We use the ABL90 in our cath labs and our main lab has the GEMs. One difference I have seen is the GEMs take longer to run the test, the ABL 90 provides the result much faster- which is why our cath lab wanted the ABL over the GEM. The only downside with ABL is dealing with Aqure support and Radiometer- they can be a pain. We do not have an IQCP, but we do run our 6 month function checks with Cal/ver, AMR and correlations for our ABL 90.