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Articles and journal scans about Glucose
Article
January 2003
From hospitals to project organizations
If you think only private corporations can call themselves project organizations, think again. Hospitals around the world are increasingly seeing themselves as project organizations and relying on project groups to explore and implement new technologies.
Meanwhile, healthcare workers participating in these projects...
Process optimization
Point-of-care testing
Glucose
Article
December 2002
The role of training, competency assessment, and continuing education
In a 1999 study, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded that 44,000 to 98,000 hospitalized Americans die each year from preventable medical errors.
While the number of serious medical errors attributable to point of care (point-of-care testing, POCT) is not known, the testing environment (patient bedside) and...
Process optimization
Point-of-care testing
Glucose
Article
October 2002
The invention and development of the blood gas analysis apparatus
John Severinghaus, who recently turned 80, is one of the pioneers in the field of blood gas. To celebrate his birthday, bloodgas.org has asked him to look back on the first developments leading to the modern blood gas analyzers.
The following article has also been published in Anesthesiology, The Journal of the...
Point-of-care testing
Blood gases/acid-base
Glucose
Lactate
Hemoglobins
Article
June 2002
Key elements in a successful pediatric laboratory
Children are not just small adults, and present unique challenges to the clinical laboratory. Blood specimens must be very small; for example, total blood volumes in a premature infant can be as small as 115 mL. Genetic diseases frequently must be detected in the newborn period. Reference values change with age....
Neonatology
Blood gases/acid-base
Point-of-care testing
Preanalytical phase
Glucose
Hemoglobins
Article
June 2002
Reference range evaluation for cord blood gas parameters
In conjunction with Apgar scores and other parameters, umbilical-cord blood gas values are used to assess newborn respiratory status.
Paired umbilical-cord gas venous and arterial samples were collected from 200 patients to establish reference ranges for blood gas/hemoximetry parameters. Umbilical-cord samples were...
Blood gases/acid-base
Glucose
Hemoglobins
Kidneys/fluids
Article
June 2002
STAT testing in the neonate
Babies are not small adults! The potential for abnormal adaptation to life outside of the womb, changes in physiology, and a myriad of possible life-threatening clinical conditions requires an understanding of the laboratory tests needed to support these infants.
To effectively handle the unique needs of these...
Point-of-care testing
Neonatology
Glucose
Creatinine/urea
Hemoglobins
Article
June 2002
Glucose and lactate in neonatology (clinical focus)
Both high and low blood glucose levels may be dangerous to the newborn baby. Measurement of blood or plasma lactate concentrations gives an indication of the adequacy of oxygen delivery to tissues, and blood and CSF lactate levels are essential investigations in the diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism (IEM)....
Glucose
Neonatology
Lactate
Hemoglobins
Article
January 2002
Preanalytical issues in neonatology
Neonates are subject to more preanalytical influences than any other population group. Many of these are related to the maturity of the infant and its adaptation to extra-uterine life.
The necessary need for capillary blood collection and processing of small quantities of blood introduce additional preanalytical...
Glucose
Lactate
Creatinine/urea
Hemoglobins
Blood gases/acid-base
Neonatology
Preanalytical phase
Article
June 2001
The quality of diagnostic samples
While analytical quality standards seem well established, there has been a paucity in the development of such standards for the preanalytical phase.
Technical recommendations regarding sampling, transport, and identification have been developed in national (NCCLS, DIN) and international (IFCC, ISO) consensus...
Preanalytical phase
Quality assurance
Glucose
Lactate
Hemoglobins
Article
December 2000
Blood gases, acid-base balance, muscle mass and exercise capacity at the upper tolerable limit for humans of acute and chronic hypoxia
An altitude of 5,000 meters above sea level or just above is just about what humans can bear - be it during an acute ascent or for permanent living. This study describes how bodily functions of crucial importance to survival at high altitude adjust after abrupt exposure to severe hypoxia.
Blood gases/acid-base
Glucose