Radiometer’s electrolyte-balanced heparin endorsed in study

Radiometer has won an endorsement for its electrolyte-balanced heparin offering from an independent study conducted in the Netherlands.

In the trial, published recently in the Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine journal, the company's PICO50 heparin-containing syringes were evaluated for their bias on positively-charged electrolytes in whole blood.

Using an ABL735 blood gas analyser, the effects of heparin products from three different manufacturers on whole blood collected from 16 healthy donors was assessed.

It was shown that ionised calcium concentrations in blood collected in PICO50 samplers were identical to values obtained from nonheparinised blood.

According to authors Dr Miranda van Berkel and Dr Volkher Scharnhorst, this shows that Radiometer's product has no bias, a factor that can cause clinically misleading individual results.

Earlier this year, the manufacturer won recognition for its next-generation ABL90 Flex blood gas analyser, in the form of a prestigious red dot award for product design in the life science and medicine field.