Said: We have ABL90s in our CVOR and Cathlab.  They use them for everything gases and sats.  They love them because they are fast (36 seconds to results, 1 minute to the next sample), for peds they want the measured FO2Hb.  We ...

Said: In our CVOR our perfusionist use Istat (mostly EG7), Sig Elite ACT+ and TEGs.

Said: Our Perfusionist perform our POC testing in OHS we use the EPOC for blood gases and the Hemochron Elite for ACT+'s .  

Said: Speaking very generally, in any operative setting, I would avoid devices that use a conductivity-based hematocrit/total hemoglobin determination, in favor of analyzers that measure these parameters directly, like ABL90.