2024 Webinar Schedule

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10:00AM CST | Register

Blood Gas Temperature Correction:
Procedures, Technology, and Regulatory Compliance.

• Review blood gas temperature changes, correction equations, how each correction method alters management, and the role of the interprofessional team in blood gas interpretation.

• Outline how temperature changes alter blood gas values and the benefits of implementing these temperature changes on the patients

• Describe alpha-stat and Ph-stat temperature correction methods and their current applications.

• Identify current practices relating to blood gas correction.

• Explain what reference ranges (If any) are applicable to assess the effectiveness of temperature change therapies. If not available, what is the most appropriate regulatory process to document results?

• Describe current Point of Care technology that allows user to correct temperature and send results to the patient’s medical record? Is it appropriate to do this?

• Understanding the Parameters for Evaluating the Hypoxemic Patient

• Basics of Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Monitoring Acid Base, Oxygenation, and Clotting Status, with an Emphasis on POC Testing Applications

John Toffaletti, PhD
Director of Blood Gas
and Clinical Pediatric
Labs, Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry
Duke University

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The North Country POC Network serves the needs of point-of-care coordinators throughout Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin and provides a forum to communicate and collaborate on current and future issues on point-of-care testing.  If you have not attended in the past and would like to be added to our mailing list and receive invitations to upcoming meetings, please send an email to pedro.castaneda@fairview.org