Air bubbles and temperature effect on blood gas analysis.
Open Access
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 33 (9), 864-867
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.33.9.864
Abstract
The effect of temperature, time of storage, and presence of air bubbles in specimens for blood gas analysis was studied. The results show that air bubbles in a 10% proportion are undesirable because of significant elevation in the PO2, and the storage of anaerobic blood samples at room temperature (25 degrees C) is acceptable when measurements are done within the first 20 minutes.Keywords
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