Data processing in the blood gas laboratory (author's transl)

A computer-assisted system for the calculation of derived blood-gas and acid-base parameters, consisting of an analysator (AVL 937) desk calculator (HP 9825A) and external printer (HP 5150A) is described. For the calculation of the derived parameters corrections were made for patient temperature, plasma protein, reduced haemoglobin and CO2-carbamino haemoglobin. The time needed for calculating and feed back was shortened.