Evaluation of the Enterprise Point-of-Care (EPOC) system for blood gas and electrolyte analysis

Point of Care

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-11

  Nichols, James H ^a,b   Rajadhyaksha, Aparna ^a   Rodriguez, Mirian ^a  

^a Baystate Health ^*  (United States)

^b Clinical Chemistry   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood gas analysis; i Stat; Point of care testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849091093     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/POC.0b013e3181634d02     Document Type: Article

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