Applicability of the Ektachem 400 analyzer for assaying analytes in miscellaneous body fluids.
The Ektachem analyzer, a slide-film chemistry technology, demonstrated applicability to non-serum, non-urine stimulated and actual clinical specimens having a wide range of protein concentration and pH. The simulated specimens studied had pH and protein that ranged from 2 to 9 and 0 to 88 g/L, respectively. Actual patients' specimens studied, which had protein concentrations ranging from 0.1 to 60 g/L, included peritoneal fluid, vitreous fluid, synovial fluid, pericardial fluid, and cerebrospinal fluid. The analytes studied included glucose, urea nitrogen, uric acid, creatinine, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, chloride, and carbon dioxide.
Georgewill
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Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77550.
Graham
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Schoen
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D001322:Autoanalysis / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001826:Body Fluids / Q000032:analysis*; D005947:Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis
D011506:Proteins; D005947:Glucose