Hemolysis detection using the GEM 7000 at the point of care in a pediatric hospital setting: does it affect outcomes?

What is it about?

This study evaluated the performance of the GEM 7000 analyzer in detecting hemolysis in a pediatric hospital’s EC and NICU settings. In this study, the GEM 7000 showed high concordance with the hemocue and vitros chemistry analyzer in detecting hemolysis in both neat and spiked samples. We also identified excellent correlation of the potassium results in these samples on both the GEM 7000 and the vitros. Our EC samples showed the highest hemolysis rate of 8.2% compared to our NICU rate of 0.04%.

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