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RAPIDPoint® 500 SystemsAdvance your critical care testing with easy-to-use, trusted technology

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Designed to meet the challenges of point-of-care settings, RAPIDPoint® 500 Blood Gas Systems leverage proven Siemens technology to deliver fast, accurate and comprehensive test results in approximately 60 seconds. These flexible, easy-to-use analyzers help free your clinicians to focus on improved patient care without reliability or maintenance worries.

  • Test blood gas, electrolytes, glucose, lactate and full CO-oximetry including neonatal total bilirubin (nBili) and total hemoglobin (tHb)
  • Multiple sample types including whole blood (arterial and venous), pleural fluid and dialysate*
  • Intuitive touch-screen interface and integrated bar-code reader—just scan, insert, and analyze with results in approximately 60 seconds
  • Bio-safe hands-free automatic sampling with clot detection and clot management
  • Maintenance-free, cartridge-based system incorporates automatic QC to help assure quality
  • Connectivity to LIS/HIS link with optional remote monitoring and control via the RAPIDComm® Data Management System
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Cost-effective, maintenance free measurement cartridge
Space Saving Cart Option
Integrated Bar-Code Scanner
Automatic Quality Control
Quality Control Materials
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Features & Benefits

Get the accuracy and reliability you’ve come to trust in an easy-to-use, maintenance-free instrument designed to perform in point-of-care environments.

The solution offers:

  • Full test menu results from a single sample in approximately 60 seconds
  • Easy-to-use, maintenance-free cartridge-based system is ideal for non-laboratory personnel
  • Proven technologies and design features help to maximize analyzer uptime and simplify compliance
  • Speed and flexibility to increase productivity without increasing staff workload
  • Seamless LIS/HIS integration with optional connectivity to the RAPIDComm® Data Management System

Critical care values in approximately one minute

RAPIDPoint 500 System parameters

  • Blood gas (pH, pCO2, pO2)
  • Electrolytes (Na+, K+, Ca++, Cl-)
  • Metabolites (Glucose, Lactate)
  • CO-oximetry (tHb, HHb, O2Hb, sO2, COHb, MetHb) and neonatal total bilirubin
  • Full test menu from a single sample
  • Pleural fluid pH

In addition to measured and calculated parameters, the RAPIDPoint 500 system can be optionally set up to record key ventilator settings to help enhance clinical decision making:

  • Flow
  • Respiratory Rate
  • Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
  • Positive End Expiratory Pressure
  • Peak Inspiratory Pressure
  • Tidal Volume
  • Allen Test

Three easy steps to lab-quality results

  • Scan, insert, and analyze—with test results in approximately 60 seconds
  • Adjustable, color touch screen supports intuitive, menu-prompted operation and includes customizable demographic fields with multibyte character recognition
  • On-board video tutorials simplify training and day-to-day use
  • Built-in bar-code scanner supports faster and easier sample processing
  • Port design automates sample aspiration making hands-free testing process bio-safe and independent of operator technique
  • Fully automated calibration and quality control systems help ensure accuracy and support compliance without operator interaction

Reliable, maintenance-free operation

  • Sample port designed to minimize bubbles and detect and clear clots
  • Self-cleaning probe helps maintain sample integrity
  • A single cartridge delivers all required reagents to support a full complement of tests for interruption-free operation
  • Planar sensor technology helps ensure industry-proven accuracy and reliability
  • Whole blood, slide cell technology for Co-oximetry including tHb and nBili has been proven since 2003; no hemolytic agents to interfere with sample or increase maintenance requirements
  • On-board, 28-day AQC cartridge requires no operator intervention
  • No routine maintenance

Speed and flexibility needed at the point of care

  • Single sample port accepts syringe or capillary samples without adapters
  • Built-in scanner makes it faster and easier for operators to scan 1- and 2-dimensional bar codes
  • Test full menu from a single sample or customize panels to meet specific needs
  • Set user privileges based on operator needs for testing, administration, and reporting
  • Approximately 60 seconds to result; fast turnaround time delivered from a compact system

Easy data management and system control

  • Supports wireless roaming
  • Seamless integration to LIS/HIS systems
  • On-board bar-code scanner helps ensure data integrity
  • Dual port LIS transmission and USB ports simplify data back-ups
  • Advanced control and connectivity via RAPIDComm Data Management System.

From a single RAPIDComm workstation, remotely:

o Configure, monitor, and control networked POC analyzers
o Manage patient samples and central interface to hospital system
o Centralize operator management and QC processes and documentation

Assays

Parameters

Analyte

Blood Gas

pH

 

pCO2

 

pO2

Electrolytes

Na+

 

K+

 

Ca++

 

CI-

Metabolites

Glucose

 

Lactate

CO-oximetry

tHb

 

sO2

 

O2Hb

 

HHb

 

COHb

 

MetHb

 

Neonatal Total Bilirubin

† pH, pCO2, and HCO-3(act) are provided for reference only.‡ Not available for sale in the U.S. Product availability varies by country.

Technical Specifications

Sample Size

 

 

Syringe: 200 µL

 

Capillary: 100 µL

Analysis

 

Time to Results:            

Approximately 60 seconds    

QC/AQC                                      

 

 

Automatic QC or ampule

 

3 levels of independent quality control solutions

 

Customizeable QC schedule

Measurement Cartridge 

 

Use Life:

28 days

Number of tests:

100, 250, 400, 750                

Calibration

 

1 Point Calibration:              

Every 30 minutes

2 Point Calibration:

Every 2 hours                             

System Dimensions

Width:                                         

30.0 cm (11.5 in.)

Depth:

42.0 cm (16.0 in.)

Height:

55.0 cm (21.5 in., display at highest position)

Weight:

16.55 kg (36.5 lbs., excluding cartridges)

Touchscreen:

21.1cm x 15.8cm (8.3in x 6.2in)

Integrated Bar-Code Scanner

1D Bar-Code Symbologies                     

Code 128, Codabar, Code 39, Character/Digit, Interleaved 2 of 5

2D Bar Code

For required QC data entry only

External Interfaces

 

Universal Serial Bus (USB)

3 Ports                                   

RS232 port

 

10Base T Ethernet

 

Barcode scanner

 

Power Requirements

 

Temperature:

15ºC to 30ºC

Humidity:

5% to 85% non-condensing

Barometric Pressure:

523 to 800 mmHg

Operating Systems

WINDOWS® XP Embedded / WINDOWS® Embedded Standard 7

Data Capacity

                              

Patient Samples:

250

QC Samples:

250

Operators:

5,000


Communications                        

 

 

LIS

 

RAPIDComm® Data Management System

 

Wireless via Ethernet Bridge

 

Dual Port Transmission via Ethernet and Serial Port


Approvals:

TUV Listed, CSA, IEC/EN 61010-1, IEC 60825-1:2007

*Not available for sale in the U.S. Available for sale in select countries.