RAPIDPoint® 500 Systems
Advance your critical care testing with easy-to-use, trusted technology
The RAPIDPoint® 500 Blood Gas System is designed for point-of-care efficiency, delivering fast, accurate, and comprehensive test results in just 60 seconds using proven Siemens technology. Its flexible, user-friendly design ensures seamless integration into clinical workflows, allowing care teams to focus on patient care without concerns about maintenance or reliability, ultimately enhancing diagnostic precision and operational efficiency
- Transforming Care Delivery with the RAPIDPoint 500e Blood Gas System
- RAPIDPoint® 500e Blood Gas System with Integri-sense™ Technology
- Heightened System Security
- Simple Touchscreen Interface
- 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 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
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 |
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 |
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| 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 System | WINDOWS® XP Embedded / WINDOWS® Embedded Standard 7 | |
| Data Capacity | Patient Samples | 250 |
| QC Sample | 250 | |
| Operators | 5,000 | |
| Communications | LIS RAPIDComm® Data Management System Wireless via Ethernet Bridge Dual Port Transmission via Ethernet and Serial Port |
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| Approvals | TUV Listed, CSA, IEC/EN 61010-1, IEC 60825-1:2007 | |
