LEVELS of total reducing substance, true sugar and glucose have been measured in the blood of newborn infants since 1911. The early reports have been reviewed by Norval et al.1 , 2 Although an exte ...

With the FLEXMODE functionality, the ABL800 FLEX blood gas analyzer is also optimized for capillary tubes, allowing you to reliably get the most critical parameters from a low volume neonate sample.

In this webinar, pre-analytical errors such as patient identification, specimen collection, handling and transport associated with neonatal capillary blood gas specimens will be discussed. Presenter ...

“The assumption has been that at birth the blood-brain barrier is immature and thus permeable and that a neonatal brain responds in the same way to injury as an adult brain. This would mean that, ...

The analyzer generates blood gas, electrolyte, metabolite, CO-oximetry, and neonatal bilirubin results, which are used to diagnose and monitor critically ill patients in the intensive care unit ...