Description

Advance your critical care testing with easy-to-use, trusted technology

Designed to meet the challenges of point-of-care settings, RAPIDPoint® 500 Blood Gas Systems leverage proven Siemens technology to deliver fast, accurate and comprehensive test results in approximately 60 seconds. These flexible, easy-to-use analyzers help free your clinicians to focus on improved patient care without reliability or maintenance worries.

– Test blood gas, electrolytes, glucose, lactate and full CO-oximetry including neonatal total bilirubin (nBili) and total hemoglobin (tHb)
– Multiple sample types including whole blood (arterial and venous), pleural fluid and dialysate*
– Intuitive touch-screen interface and integrated bar-code reader—just scan, insert, and analyze with results in approximately 60 seconds
– Bio-safe hands-free automatic sampling with clot detection and clot management
– Maintenance-free, cartridge-based system incorporates automatic QC to help assure quality
– Connectivity to LIS/HIS link with optional remote monitoring and control via the RAPIDComm® Data Management System

Features & Benefits

Get the accuracy and reliability you’ve come to trust in an easy-to-use, maintenance-free instrument designed to perform in point-of-care environments.

The solution offers:

• Full test menu results from a single sample in approximately 60 seconds
• Easy-to-use, maintenance-free cartridge-based system is ideal for non-laboratory personnel
• Proven technologies and design features help to maximize analyzer uptime and simplify compliance
• Speed and flexibility to increase productivity without increasing staff workload
• Seamless LIS/HIS integration with optional connectivity to the RAPIDComm® Data Management System

Critical care values in approximately one minute

RAPIDPoint 500 System parameters

• Blood gas (pH, pCO2, pO2)
• Electrolytes (Na+, K+, Ca++, Cl-)
• Metabolites (Glucose, Lactate)
• CO-oximetry (tHb, HHb, O2Hb, sO2, COHb, MetHb) and neonatal total bilirubin
• Full test menu from a single sample
• Pleural fluid pH

In addition to measured and calculated parameters, the RAPIDPoint 500 system can be optionally set up to record key ventilator settings to help enhance clinical decision making:

• Flow
• Respiratory Rate
• Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
• Positive End Expiratory Pressure
• Peak Inspiratory Pressure
• Tidal Volume
• Allen Test

Three easy steps to lab-quality results

• Scan, insert, and analyze—with test results in approximately 60 seconds
• Adjustable, color touch screen supports intuitive, menu-prompted operation and includes customizable demographic fields with multibyte character recognition
• On-board video tutorials simplify training and day-to-day use
• Built-in bar-code scanner supports faster and easier sample processing
• Port design automates sample aspiration making hands-free testing process bio-safe and independent of operator technique
• Fully automated calibration and quality control systems help ensure accuracy and support compliance without operator interaction

Reliable, maintenance-free operation

• Sample port designed to minimize bubbles and detect and clear clots
• Self-cleaning probe helps maintain sample integrity
• A single cartridge delivers all required reagents to support a full complement of tests for interruption-free operation
• Planar sensor technology helps ensure industry-proven accuracy and reliability
• Whole blood, slide cell technology for Co-oximetry including tHb and nBili has been proven since 2003; no hemolytic agents to interfere with sample or increase maintenance requirements
• On-board, 28-day AQC cartridge requires no operator intervention
• No routine maintenance

Speed and flexibility needed at the point of care

• Single sample port accepts syringe or capillary samples without adapters
• Built-in scanner makes it faster and easier for operators to scan 1- and 2-dimensional bar codes
• Test full menu from a single sample or customize panels to meet specific needs
• Set user privileges based on operator needs for testing, administration, and reporting
• Approximately 60 seconds to result; fast turnaround time delivered from a compact system

Easy data management and system control

• Supports wireless roaming
• Seamless integration to LIS/HIS systems
• On-board bar-code scanner helps ensure data integrity
• Dual port LIS transmission and USB ports simplify data back-ups
• Advanced control and connectivity via RAPIDComm Data Management System.

From a single RAPIDComm workstation, remotely:

• Configure, monitor, and control networked POC analyzers
• Manage patient samples and central interface to hospital system
• Centralize operator management and QC processes and documentation