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Articles and journal scans about Hemoglobins
Article
October 2004
Permissive hypercapnea: Protecting the infant lung
Almost as soon as healthcare providers began ventilating neonates with respiratory distress syndrome, the problem of chronic lung disease began. How to manage these children in a way to promote lung growth and disease-free survival has been the question for those involved in the care of these infants since that time....
Neonatology
Hemoglobins
Article
October 2004
Jaundice in the newborn infant
About half of all newborn infants born at term develop
jaundice during their first days of life, and the lower the
gestational age the more frequent the jaundice is. Newborns
develop hyperbilirubinemia because of a large bilirubin
production, low hepatic excretion and enterohepatic
recirculation. At birth the newborn ...
Bilirubin
Neonatology
Hemoglobins
Article
September 2004
Biological variation - what’s it all about?
Biochemical and hematological analyses are done in laboratories, clinics, general practices and in point-of-care settings such as ITU. Generally, numerical test results are generated.
Test results vary in individuals over time due to preanalytical variation, analytical imprecision and biological variation. The...
Quality assurance
Hemoglobins
Glucose
Article
September 2004
Hematocrit - a review of different analytical methods
To assess anemia and reduced oxygen-carrying
capacity, a measurement of hematocrit and/or hemoglobin is
performed. Whether hemoglobin or hematocrit is preferred
depends on different needs and is often determined by
tradition.
Both hematocrit and hemoglobin are important
hematology parameters for diagnosing...
Preanalytical phase
Quality assurance
Hemoglobins
Kidneys/fluids
Article
July 2004
Useful tips to avoid preanalytical errors in blood gas testing: neonatal total bilirubin
50-75 % of all newborns develop jaundice during their first week of life [1,2,3]. The decision behind which treatment is necessary and when it should be initiated is based upon a measurement of the concentration of total bilirubin (ctBil) in serum, plasma or whole blood.
It is therefore obvious that it is important...
Quality assurance
Bilirubin
Preanalytical phase
Hemoglobins
Blood gases/acid-base
Article
July 2004
The heart of the matter
Blood gas analysis at the point of care plays an important role during and after an open-heart surgery. acutecaretesting.org recently talked to Prof. Knut Kleesiek, MD, Director of the Institute for Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine of the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, to find out more ...
Point-of-care testing
Blood gases/acid-base
Glucose
Hemoglobins
Lactate
Article
June 2004
To co-ox or not to co-ox
Oxygen saturation can be obtained from many different types of devices. This range of choices causes some confusion as to definitions of measured variables and their clinical interpretation.
This article gives some historical background and describes the two different ways saturation can be obtained from a blood gas ...
Blood gases/acid-base
Hemoglobins
Article
April 2004
Setting the record straight on shunt
The understanding and management of ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) relationships represents a cornerstone of intensive care unit (ICU) patient management.
The physiologic shunt calculation can reliably reflect the degree of gas exchange attributable to intrapulmonary disease or intracardiac shunting regardless of other ...
Blood gases/acid-base
Hemoglobins
Article
March 2004
Transcutaneous monitoring: back to the future - An important adjunct to care during high frequency oscillatory ventilation
High frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) is often used in neonatal intensive care. HFOV has been shown to decrease bronchopulmonary dysplasia [1,2,3] in preterm infants and to be very effective in the treatment of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn when used in conjunction with inhaled nitric oxide ...
Neonatology
Hemoglobins
Article
October 2003
Useful tips to avoid preanalytical errors in blood gas testing: electrolytes
Preanalytical errors are said to be the reason for up to 75 % [1] of all errors in laboratory medicine. The diagnostic consequences depend on the magnitude of the preanalytical error.
In worst case, these errors may lead to mistreatment of patients; in all cases, these errors are an extra workload for the hospital...
Preanalytical phase
Electrolytes
Quality assurance
Glucose
Hemoglobins
Blood gases/acid-base