Thanks Sanjeev,
I am an ABG Specialist and have been trained in Roche, Bayer, AVL and ABL blood gas machines. Blood gas analyers are very sensitive, consumes more time for troubleshooting due to their nature of analysis. All blood gas analysers give you nightmare at any time if not maintained regularly by users and engineers. We clean all our Roche analysers using deproteiniser once a week minimum to avoid clots and protein deposits on electrodes, mostly on chloride and calcium electrodes . I have worked on all kinds of Bayer ABGs like 200+, 300+, 400+, 800+, etc. Bayer machines are quite stable and electrodes are long lasting . Currently, we are using OMNI C and OMNI 6 which are from ROCHE-AVL . They are quite stable with ready sensors but they don't last as committed by sales bigwicks. I have experienced electrodes lasting between 6 - 12 months max . ABL is still using jackets as some one mentioned earlier which requires frequent maintenance eventhough ABL is the pioneer in ABG productions. IL and Nova have their own merits and demerits and they could be considered in the second category.
Hope this helps.
Sen
