Items for "critical care"
Background: Modern blood gas analyzers are often coupled to electrolyte and metabolite analyzers...
Keywords: blood gas analyzer, critical care, electrolytes, point-of-care testing
01/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Background: Total carbon dioxide content (TCO2) can be calculated from measured values of pH and pCO2 according to a simplified and standardized form of the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, or measured directly.
Methods: We assessed the agreement between calculated TCO2 and measured TCO2 using a total of 74 blood samples...
Keywords: acid-base imbalance, calculated total carbon dioxide (TCO2), carbon dioxide, critical care, measured TCO2
01/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Background: Albumin and plasma cholinesterase are markedly reduced in critical illness...
Keywords: Albumin, cholinesterase, critical care, half-life
08/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter