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Coolant for 2013 ford escape9/17/2023 The i-STAT system ® (Abbot Point of Care Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA), a portable clinical analyser, is gaining acceptance as a means of blood analysis in biological studies on a variety of fish species ( Stoot et al., 2014). In agreement with previous work, our results indicate that the i-STAT system can generate useful data on whole blood pH in fishes, but not blood gases. The in vivo partial pressure of CO 2 ( PCO 2) in resting sandbar sharks is probably below the detection limit for PCO 2 in the i-STAT system, and the measurement of higher PCO 2 tensions was associated with a large measurement error. This is probably due to the effect of a closed-system temperature change on PO 2 within the i-STAT cartridge and the fact that the temperature correction algorithms used by i-STAT assume a human temperature dependency of haemoglobin–O 2 binding in many ectotherms, this assumption will lead to equivocal i-STAT PO 2 results. The i-STAT system was, however, unable to generate reliable results for measurements of partial pressure of oxygen ( PO 2) and the derived parameter of haemoglobin O 2 saturation. Our results indicate that the i-STAT system can generate useful measurements of whole blood pH, and the use of appropriate correction factors may increase the accuracy of results. The aim of our study was to test the suitability of the i-STAT system, the most commonly used portable clinical analyser in studies on fish, for analysing blood gases and acid–base status in elasmobranchs, over a broad range of conditions and using the sandbar shark ( Carcharhinus plumbeus) as a model organism. Consequently, researchers have adopted portable clinical analysers that were developed for the analysis of human blood characteristics, but often without thoroughly validating these systems for their use on fish. Accurate measurements of blood gases and acid–base status require an array of sophisticated laboratory equipment that is typically not available during field research such is the case for many studies on the stress physiology, ecology and conservation of elasmobranch fish species.
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