For Sale SIEMENS RAPIDPoint 500e Blood Gas Analyzer

Advance your critical care testing with easy-to-use, trusted technology

Designed to meet the challenges of point-of-care settings, RAPIDPoint® 500e 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

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 500e 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 500e 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:

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

Return Policy

Items are sold as-is with no returns or refunds available unless explicitly stated.