Intravenous fluids cause systemic bias in a conductivity-based point-of-care hematocrit meter

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 314-321

  Wu, Patrick ^a   Morey, Timothy E ^b   Harris, Neil S ^b   Gravenstein, Nikolaus ^b   Rice, Mark J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILUENT; HEPARIN; HETASTARCH; INFUSION FLUID; PROPOFOL; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; DILUTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODILUTION; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MEDICAL DEVICE; PLASMA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUID THERAPY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODILUTION; HEPARIN; HETASTARCH; HUMANS; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; PLASMA; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPOFOL; REHYDRATION SOLUTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 84856225428     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31823fecbd     Document Type: Article

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