Methods and apparatus for obtaining arterial blood samples

Details Methods and apparatus for obtaining arterial blood samples Methods and apparatus for obtaining arterial blood samples

1988-10-20

1990-06-26

Hindenburg, Max

Surgery

Truss

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604187, A61B 500

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ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and methods for simultaneously obtaining clinical laboratory and arterial blood gas samples are disclosed. The apparatus includes a flow-through plunger configured for being detachably secured to the tip of a standard arterial blood gas syringe. The flow-through plunger has a conduit through the center thereof which permits blood to flow through the plunger into the arterial blood gas syringe. The flow-through plunger preferably has a diameter larger than the diameter of the arterial blood gas syringe. In this way, the combination of flow-through plunger and arterial blood gas syringe function as a plunger assembly for a larger syringe, preferably a clinical laboratory blood sample syringe.
Both a clinical laboratory blood sample and an arterial blood gas sample may be obtained by introducing arterial blood into the clinical laboratory syringe barrel and passing the blood through the flow-through plunger into the arterial blood gas syringe. Arterial blood may be introduced into the clinical laboratory syringe through either a direct hypodermic needle puncture into an artery or by coupling the laboratory syringe barrel to an ex-vivo arterial blood source.

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