Clinical biochemistry
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Clinical biochemistry · Jul 1997
Evaluation of i-STAT portable clinical analyzer in a neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit.
To evaluate the Point-of-Care (POC) i-STAT system for measuring blood gases (pH, pCO2, pO2) and whole blood electrolytes (sodium, Na+, potassium, K+ and ionized calcium, iCa2+) in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units. ⋯ The POC testing analyzer i-STAT is a reliable alternative to the traditional blood gas analyzers and provides marginal improvement in turnaround time when compared with the service received from the PICU/NICU laboratory. Costs need to be carefully controlled.