Routine and frequent arterial blood gas measurement have placed the clinical management of respiratory and acid-base disorders in anesthetized and critically ill patients on a firm scientific foundation.
There can be an error to get the value of PCO. PO2, pH and electrolytes by dilution effect of liquid-Na-heparin and dry lithium-heparin kit that is usually used as a anticoagulant.
To get the comparative values of arterial blood gases and electrolytes, we performed to compare the plastic syringe liquid-Na-heparin to arterial blood gas kit which were pre-filled with dry-lithium-heparin. This paper reports our findings and a
discussion of their possible significance.
@ES The results were as follows:
@EN 1. In the arterial blood gases with 1ml syrine group and kit group, the correlation of pH and PO2 were closed correlated(r=0.991, 0.946), and the correlation of PCO2 was moderate(r=0.803).
2. In the estimation of electrolyte with 0.5ml syringe group and kit group, the correlation of K+ and Na+ were closed correlated(r=0.937, 0.891).
3. We found that 1ml blood sampling compatible with arterial blood gas and 0.5ml blood sampling compatible with electrolytes(Na+, K+) estimation regardless of plastic syringe or kit.
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