[Clinical use of the VIA Blood Gas Monitor System].
VIA Blood Gas Monitor System (Baxter) withdrawals and reinforces blood automatically and measures pH, PaCO2, PaO2, sodium, potassium, and hematocrit. We evaluated VIA for use during cardiopulmonary bypass in 8 patients and during differential lung ventilation in 6 patients. The bias and precision were calculated on all the measured parameters. A total of 127 blood samples were obtained for comparison. Blood gas data measured by VIA were clinically acceptable except sodium. These findings suggest that VIA is useful for the management of patients in whom frequent arterial gas measurements are necessary.
Ohtsuka
Tatsuo
T
Department of Anesthesia, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama 701-4770.
Hirose
Yoshifumi
Y
Gamo
Masahiro
M
Kamiya
Ritsuko
R
D000368:Aged; D001784:Blood Gas Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative