Callie

We were asked recently about how to validate blue tops for EDTA induced platelet clumping. Does anyone have a procedure on how they validated the blue tops or just putting in a disclaimer when used? We always review a slide when running and perform the calculation.

Hi everyone! We currently use hepzyme to help rule out heparin contamination and compare results for heparinized samples when monitoring heparin therapy. This process ties up one of our instruments for testing and has to have multiple flush cycles before testing patients again after each hepzyme run. Does anyone know of POC instrument that could essentially replace the need to run Hepzyme on our main Stagos?

Two part question: 1. Measured Hemoglobin verses calculated hemoglobin and the impact it has on physician choices for transfusion purposes. 2. The good the bad and the ugly with POC instruments that measure/calculate hemoglobin such as AVOX, GEM Premiers, Hemocue, I-STATS and anything else that might be out there. Thank you in advance!