Blood Gas/Chem POC devices
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What are your preferences for POC blood gas/chemistry analyzers? How do you manage reduced portability of things like GEMS or ABLs in busy EDs or part of Rapid Responses? Are there handheld options outside of iSTAT or EPOC?
What are your preferences for POC blood gas/chemistry analyzers? How do you manage reduced portability of things like GEMS or ABLs in busy EDs or part of Rapid Responses? Are there handheld options outside of iSTAT or EPOC?
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Usage between the two different systems in the EDs is entirely up to the user's choice.
The largest ER we have predominately uses the Prime Plus. Why: despite the portability of the Epoc the majority of the RT's prefer to walk their specimens back to the RT station and run the testing on the Prime because its faster and easier to use than the Epoc. Other locations perfer to walk around with the Epoc and use it, it's all user preference.
The Epoc is more "forgiving" with its single use cartridges, if a user performs a test with clots... it will not impact the next test. The GEM/ABL/Prime Plus are closer to a "lab analyzers" and require all samples to be anticoagulated. The Prime Plus will very frequently run non-anticoagulated samples without a problem initially but hours later will have problems (micro clots in the lines). I expect this to be true for the GEMs and ABL's as well.