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:
ο Configure, monitor, and control networked POC analyzers.
ο Manage patient samples and central interface to hospital system.
ο Centralize operator management and QC processes and documentation.
Assays
| Parameters | Analyte |
|---|---|
| Blood Gas | pH |
| pCO2 | |
| pO2 | |
| Electrolytes | Na+ |
| K+ | |
| Ca++ | |
| CI– | |
| Metabolites | Glucose |
| Lactate | |
| CO-oximetry | tHb |
| sO2 | |
| O2Hb | |
| HHb | |
| COHb | |
| MetHb | |
| Neonatal Total Bilirubin |
Also supports additional sample types: Pleural fluid pH as well as Na+, K+, Ca++, Cl–, pH, pCO2, and HCO–3(act)† for dialysate fluid‡ samples.
† pH, pCO2, and HCO–3(act) are provided for reference only.
‡ Not available for sale in the U.S. Product availability varies by country.
Technical Specifications
| Sample Size | |
|---|---|
| Syringe: 200 µL | |
| Capillary: 100 µL |
| Analysis | |
|---|---|
| Time to Results: | Approximately 60 seconds |
| QC/AQC | |
|---|---|
| Automatic QC or ampule | |
| 3 levels of independent quality control solutions | |
| Customizeable QC schedule |
|
| Measurement Cartridge | |
|---|---|
| Use Life: | 28 days |
| Number of tests: | 100, 250, 400, 750 |
| Calibration | |
|---|---|
| 1 Point Calibration: | Every 30 minutes |
| 2 Point Calibration: | Every 2 hours |
| System Dimensions | |
|---|---|
| Width: | 30.0 cm (11.5 in.) |
| Depth: | 42.0 cm (16.0 in.) |
| Height: | 55.0 cm (21.5 in., display at highest position) |
| Weight: | 16.55 kg (36.5 lbs., excluding cartridges) |
| Touchscreen: | 21.1cm x 15.8cm (8.3in x 6.2in) |
| Integrated Bar-Code Scanner | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1D Bar-Code Symbologies | Code 128, Codabar, Code 39, Character/Digit, Interleaved 2 of 5 | |
| 2D Bar Code | For required QC data entry only | |
| External Interfaces | |
|---|---|
| Universal Serial Bus (USB) | 3 Ports |
| RS232 port | |
| 10Base T Ethernet | |
| Barcode scanner |
| Power Requirements | |
|---|---|
| Temperature: | 15ºC to 30ºC |
| Humidity: | 5% to 85% non-condensing |
| Barometric Pressure: |
523 to 800 mmHg |
| Operating Systems | WINDOWS® XP Embedded / WINDOWS® Embedded Standard 7 |
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