Blood Gases, Electrolytes, Metabolytes and Co-Oximetry - Fast, simple, flexible point-of-care analyser suitable for all departments
Stat Profile Prime Plus provides a comprehensive, customisable test menu for critically ill patients in any hospital department including the ICU and A&E, as well as outpatient centres, clinics, and urgent care centres.
Comprehensive, Configurable and Flexible
Prime Plus provides up to 24 measured and 33 calculated user selectable tests, providing the most comprehensive test menu with flexibility to customise depending on departmental needs, available options include;
Blood gases, electrolytes, and metabolites with non-lysing CO-Oximetry.
Blood gases, electrolytes, and metabolites without CO-Oximetry. Prime Plus provides measured Hb, Hct, and SO2% without the need for CO-Ox, reducing costs for departments that don’t use it.
Optional Creat/eGFR and urea tests on a separate MicroSensor Card.
Important New Assays
Estimated Plasma Volume (ePV)
Prime Plus analysers have the unique ability to report estimated plasma volume (ePV), a very important test that assesses the intravascular fluid content of blood, the patient’s hydration status. The plasma volume status of a patient is one of the top priorities in managing many different conditions including shock, sepsis, congestive heart failure, acute or chronic kidney disease, chronic pulmonary disease, as well as general postoperative care.
Prime Plus reports ePV and ΔPV using the Strauss equation which requires measured haemoglobin and measured haematocrit to determine ePV. ePV may be most beneficial when it is measured serially, and thus the change in plasma volume (ΔPV) can also be used to guide fluid therapy.
Ionised Magnesium (iMg)
iMg is an essential electrolyte measurement for critically ill patients in surgical, medical, cardiac, peadiatric, and neonatal ICU's.
Hypomagnesaemia is a common and often undiagnosed abnormality in critically ill patients.1,2
Hypomagnesaemia can cause cardiac arrhythmias, increased risk for needing ventilator support, prolonged ventilator support, respiratory muscle weakness, and difficulty weaning patients from the ventilator.1-5
Magnesium therapy, guided by serial iMg measurement, can prevent hypomagnesaemia.
Over 50% of patients admitted to the ICU will develop acute kidney injury.6
Prime Plus provides optional whole blood urea and creatinine (plus eGFR) tests for rapid assessment of kidney function.
Maximum Uptime
Prime Plus maximises analyser uptime—and the time point-of-care staff can spend with patients—by using maintenance-free cartridge technology.
Snap-in calibrator and QC cartridges can be replaced in seconds—other cartridge based analysers usually take up to four hours to be sample-ready after replacing consumables because they remain unstable with drift and frequent recalibrations.
Nova’s MicroSensor cards can be replaced, calibrated, and QC verified in one hour.
Total Quality Management
Fully automated true liquid QC provides the only true test of analyser performance.
In addition, Supplemental Quality Monitoring provides continuous, real-time, and automated performance verification of all analytical components between QC intervals.
1. Zafar MS et al. Significance of serum magnesium levels in critically ill patients. Int J Appl Basic Med Res 2014;4(1):34-37.
2. Limaye CS et al. Hypomagnesemia in critically ill medical patients. J Assoc Physicians India 2011;59:19-22.
3. Wilkes NJ et al. Correction of ionized plasma magnesium during cardiopulmonary bypass reduces the risk of postoperative cardiac arrhythmia. Anesth and Analg 2002;95(4):828-834.
4. Kumar S et al. Impact of serum magnesium levels in critically ill elderly patients—A study in a rural teaching hospital. J Clin Gerontol Geriatr 2016;7:104-108.
5. Charles BS et al. Hypomagnesemia in the ICU—Does correction matter? J Assoc Physicians India 2016;64(11):15-19.
6. Mandelbaum T et al. Outcome of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury using the AKIN criteria. Crit Care Med 2011;39(12):2659-2664.
