| Title | A System for Computerized Automated Blood Gas Analaysis: Its Use in Newborn Infants with Respiratory Distress |
| Author(s) | L. George Veasy, MD; Justin S. Clark, PhD; Larry Jung, MD; and Jarrell L. Jenkins |
| Source | Pediatrics, Vol. 48, No. 1, Pages 5-17 |
| Publication Date | July, 1971 |
| Abstract | An automated system for an on-line, real-time computerized determination of arterial blood pressure of oxygen and carbon dioxide, and pH has been developed at the Primary Children's Hospital [Salt Lake City]. The determinations are made from a 0.3 ml sample of blood withdrawn automatically under computer control from an indwelling arterial catheter. The results are displayed nearly immediately in alpha-numeric terms on a memory scope at the cribside. Laboratory evaluation and a limited clinical experience with six patients indicate the system to be a safe method for accurate and close monitoring of critically ill infants and is particularly applicable to use in the respiratory distress syndrome. The system is known as CABAS, a term coined from "Computerized Automated Blood Analysis System." |