Objectives: To determine the glucose reliability results measured in a gas equipment as compared with a reference method commonly used in the laboratory. The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guide EP9- A2 instructions were followed. Design: Descriptive study with non-probability sampling. Setting: Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, EsSalud, Lima, Peru. Materials: Blood sample of 234 subjects from the emergency services and intensive care unit. Methods: Blood glucose was processed with the ADVIA1800 equipment and the ABL800 gasometer. Results of both analyzers were compared following the mentioned guide directives, the Bland-Altman plot analysis and the Lin’s concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) calculation. Main outcome measures: Serum glucose concentration. Results: Average blood glucose levels obtained were 1.6 mg/dL higher for ABL800 than for ADVIA1800. Both...

Introduction. Hemolysis interference is the main cause of pre analytical rejection of serum samples in clinical laboratory. Objectives. To identify and quantify possible hemolysis interferences in the routine measurement of 25 biochemical constituents using ADVIA 1800 autoanalyzer, by clinical relevant interference criterion when the maximum desirable systematic error is exceeded. Design. Comparative descriptive study. Institution. Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, EsSalud, Lima, Peru. Biologic material. Blood samples collected from volunteer subjects. Interventions. Increasing amounts of hemoglobin (0.26 g/L, 0.53 g/L, 1.05 g/L, 2.10 g/L, 3.25 g/L, 4.30 g/L, and 5.25 g/L) were added to seven different aliquots of sera mixture and influence of interfering influence in 25 constituents was determined by duplicate. The Spanish Society of Clinical Chemistry protocol was followed. Main out...

Estudio experimental con pre y pos-prueba, con pool de sueros proveniente de muestras procesadas en el laboratorio central del Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, en Lima, Perú, para conocer y cuantificar la posible interferencia producida por la turbidez (lipemia) en la medición rutinaria de 24 constituyentes bioquímicos, empleando para ello el criterio de interferencia clínicamente relevante cuando se supera el máximo error sistemático deseable. Se añadieron cantidades crecientes de una emulsión lipídica comercial de nutrición parenteral a siete diferentes alícuotas de una mezcla de sueros y se determinó en ellas, por triplicado, la influencia del interferente en los 24 constituyentes. Se ha seguido el protocolo de la Sociedad Española de Química Clínica. Se encontró que los constituyentes: glucosa, creatinina, potasio, colesterol total, HDL colesterol, fosfatasa alcal...