Pneumatic transport exacerbates interference of room air contamination in blood gas samples

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 642-647

  Astles, J Rex ^a,c   Lubarsky, David ^b   Loun, Bounthon ^a   Sedor, Frank A ^a   Toffaletti, John G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTAMINATION; PNEUMATIC TOOL;

AIR; ANOXEMIA; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0030035698     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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