RAPIDPoint® 500 Systems
Advance your critical care testing with easy-to-use, trusted technology.
Designed to meet the challenges of point-of-care settings, RAPIDPoint® 500 Blood Gas Systems leverage proven Siemens technology to deliver fast, accurate and comprehensive test results in approximately 60 seconds. These flexible, easy-to-use analyzers help free your clinicians to focus on improved patient care without reliability or maintenance worries.
- 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
Three easy steps to lab-quality results
- Scan, insert, and analyze—with test results in approximately 60 seconds
- Adjustable, color touch screen supports intuitive, menu-prompted operation and includes customizable demographic fields with multibyte character recognition
- On-board video tutorials simplify training and day-to-day use
- Built-in bar-code scanner supports faster and easier sample processing
- Port design automates sample aspiration making hands-free testing process bio-safe and independent of operator technique
- Fully automated calibration and quality control systems help ensure accuracy and support compliance without operator interaction
Reliable, maintenance-free operation
- Sample port designed to minimize bubbles and detect and clear clots
- Self-cleaning probe helps maintain sample integrity
- A single cartridge delivers all required reagents to support a full complement of tests for interruption-free operation
- Planar sensor technology helps ensure industry-proven accuracy and reliability
- Whole blood, slide cell technology for Co-oximetry including tHb and nBili has been proven since 2003; no hemolytic agents to interfere with sample or increase maintenance requirements
- On-board, 28-day AQC cartridge requires no operator intervention
- No routine maintenance
Speed and flexibility needed at the point of care
- Single sample port accepts syringe or capillary samples without adapters
- Built-in scanner makes it faster and easier for operators to scan 1- and 2-dimensional bar codes
- Test full menu from a single sample or customize panels to meet specific needs
- Set user privileges based on operator needs for testing, administration, and reporting
- Approximately 60 seconds to result; fast turnaround time delivered from a compact system
Easy data management and system control
- Supports wireless roaming
- Seamless integration to LIS/HIS systems
- On-board bar-code scanner helps ensure data integrity
- Dual port LIS transmission and USB ports simplify data back-ups
- Advanced control and connectivity via RAPIDComm Data Management System.
From a single RAPIDComm workstation, remotely:- Configure, monitor, and control networked POC analyzers
- Manage patient samples and central interface to hospital system
- Centralize operator management and QC processes and documentation
Blood Gas
Electrolytes
Metabolites
CO-oximetry
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
Measurement Cartridge
Use Life:
8 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 Systems
WINDOWS® XP Embedded
WINDOWS® Embedded Standard 7
Data Capacity
Patient Samples:
250
QC Samples:
250
Operators:
5,000
Communications
LIS
RAPIDComm® Data Management System
Wireless via Ethernet Bridge
Dual Port Transmission via Ethernet and Serial Port
Approvals:
TUV Listed, CSA, IEC/EN 61010-1, IEC 60825-1:2007
Why Choose Us
We believe that success is achieved with professionalism, integrity and perfect teamwork, built on the high moral values of our employees.
Our policy is based on impeccable planning, control and execution, through which we achieve maximum satisfaction of our customers.
Professional
customer service
A wide range of laboratory analyzers
Trained and experienced specialists
Certificate
ISO 13485:2012
