The EPOC Blood Analysis System: performance evaluation of various analytes. A retrospective pilot study

Abstract

Aim: in a previous thesis aiming to determine reference intervals for canine venous blood significant bias was found for creatinine measurement compared with data obtained from a clinical chemistry analyzer. We intended to expand this study and investigate frequently measured parameters, namely sodium (Na+), potassium (K+), hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit (Ht), glucose (G), and creatinine (Cre) over clinically meaningful ranges. Materials and methods: canine venous blood samples obtained at the Teaching Hospital of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest were analyzed with the EPOC system and the Advia 2120i as well as the Olympus AU400 analyzer at the clinical laboratory. Statistical methods were used to determine concordance.