Profile: Abbott Point of Care Inc. deals with analyzers and cartridges. Our i-STAT® 1 analyzer is a handheld system that performs a comprehensive panel of critical tests. It utilizes self-contained test cartridges, along with the Precision PCx™ and PCx Plus™ glucose test strips and delivers lab-accurate testing for blood gases, electrolytes, chemistries, coagulation, hematology, glucose, and cardiac markers. It uses as little as two drops of blood and a test cartridge. Our i-STAT cartridge uses biosensor technology and advanced microfluidics & is the foundation of our portable, handheld system.
The company has revenues of USD 50-100 Million, has ~480 employees and is ISO 9001, ISO 9003, CE certified. NASDAQ:ISTAT (SEC Filings)
FDA Registration Number: 2245578
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| • Activated Whole Blood Clotting Time (FDA Code: JBP / 864.7140) An activated whole blood clotting time tests is a device, used to monitor heparin therapy for the treatment of venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism by measuring the coagulation time of whole blood. |
| • Assayed and Unassayed Single (Specified) Analyte Controls (FDA Code: JJX / 862.1660) A quality control material (assayed and unassayed) for clinical chemistry is a device intended for medical purposes for use in a test system to estimate test precision and to detect systematic analytical deviations that may arise from reagent or analytical instrument variation. A quality control material (assayed and unassayed) may be used for proficiency testing in interlaboratory surveys. This generic type of device includes controls (assayed and unassayed) for blood gases, electrolytes, enzymes, multianalytes (all kinds), single (specified) analytes, or urinalysis controls. |
| • Blood Gas Analyzers |
| • Blood Gas and Ph Electrode Measurement (FDA Code: CHL / 862.1120) A blood gases (PCO2, PO2) and blood pH test system is a device intended to measure certain gases in blood, serum, plasma or pH of blood, serum, and plasma. Measurements of blood gases (PCO2, PO2) and blood pH are used in the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening acid-base disturbances. |
| • Blood Gas Monitors |
| • Calcium Ion Specific Electrode (FDA Code: JFP / 862.1145) A calcium test system is a device intended to measure the total calcium level in serum. Calcium measurements are used in the diagnosis and treatment of parathyroid disease, a variety of bone diseases, chronic renal disease and tetany (intermittent muscular contractions or spasms). |
| • Capillary Blood Collection Tubes (FDA Code: GIO / 864.6150) A capillary blood collection tube is a plain or heparinized glass tube of very small diameter used to collect blood by capillary action. |
| • Carbon-Dioxide pH Rate Measurement Test (FDA Code: JFL / 862.1160) A bicarbonate/carbon dioxide test system is a device intended to measure bicarbonate/carbon dioxide in plasma, serum, and whole blood. Bicarbonate/carbon dioxide measurements are used in the diagnosis and treatment of numerous potentially serious disorders associated with changes in body acid-base balance. |
| • Cartridges |
| • Chloride Ion Specific Electrode (FDA Code: CGZ / 862.1170) A chloride test system is a device intended to measure the level of chloride in plasma, serum, sweat, and urine. Chloride measurements are used in the diagnosis and treatment of electrolyte and metabolic disorders such as cystic fibrosis and diabetic acidosis. |
| • Data Processing Module for Clinical use (FDA Code: JQP / 862.2100) A calculator/data processing module for clinical use is an electronic device intended to store, retrieve, and process laboratory data. |
| • Discrete Photometric Chemistry Analyzer (FDA Code: JJE / 862.2160) A discrete photometric chemistry analyzer for clinical use is a device intended to duplicate manual analytical procedures by performing automatically various steps such as pipetting, preparing filtrates, heating, and measuring color intensity. This device is intended for use in conjunction with certain materials to measure a variety of analytes. Different models of the device incorporate various instrumentation such as micro analysis apparatus, double beam, single, or dual channel photometers, and bichromatic 2-wavelength photometers. Some models of the device may include reagent-containing components that may also serve as reaction units. |
| • Glucose Oxidase, Glucose (FDA Code: CGA / 862.1345) A glucose test system is a device intended to measure glucose quantitatively in blood and other body fluids. Glucose measurements are used in the diagnosis and treatment of carbohydrate metabolism disorders including diabetes mellitus, neonatal hypoglycemia, and idiopathic hypoglycemia, and of pancreatic islet cell carcinoma. |
| • Hematocrit Measuring Device (FDA Code: JPI / 864.6400) A hematocrit measuring device is a system consisting of instruments, tubes, racks, and a sealer and a holder. The device is used to measure the packed red cell volume in blood to determine whether the patient's total red cell volume is normal or abnormal. Abnormal states include anemia (an abnormally low total red cell volume) and erythrocytosis (an abnormally high total red cell mass). The packed red cell volume is produced by centrifuging a given volume of blood. |
| • Ion Electrode Based Enzymatic Creatinine (FDA Code: CGL / 862.1225) A creatinine test system is a device intended to measure creatinine levels in plasma and urine. Creatinine measurements are used in the diagnosis and treatment of renal diseases, in monitoring renal dialysis, and as a calculation basis for measuring other urine analytes. |
| • Lactic Acid Enzymatic Method (FDA Code: KHP / 862.1450) A lactic acid test system is a device intended to measure lactic acid in whole blood and plasma. Lactic acid measurements that evaluate the acid-base status are used in the diagnosis and treatment of lactic acidosis (abnormally high acidity of the blood). |
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| • Micro Surgery Instruments, Graspers |
| • Micro Surgery Instruments, Pneumatic Power Systems |
| • Micro Surgery Instruments, Scissors |
| • Multi Analyte Control (FDA Code: JJY / 862.1660) |
| • Plasma Coagulation Control (FDA Code: GGN / 864.5425) A multipurpose system for in vitro coagulation studies is a device consisting of one automated or semiautomated instrument and its associated reagents and controls. The system is used to perform a series of coagulation studies and coagulation factor assays. |
| • Potassium Ion Specific Electrode (FDA Code: CEM / 862.1600) A potassium test system is a device intended to measure potassium in serum, plasma, and urine. Measurements obtained by this device are used to monitor electrolyte balance in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases conditions characterized by low or high blood potassium levels. |
| • Prothrombin Time Test (FDA Code: GJS / 864.7750) A prothrombin time test is a device used as a general screening procedure for the detection of possible clotting factor deficiencies in the extrinsic coagulation pathway, which involves the reaction between coagulation factors III and VII, and to monitor patients receiving coumarin therapy (the administration of one of the coumarin anticoagulants in the treatment of venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism). |
| • Sodium Ion Specific Electrode (FDA Code: JGS / 862.1665) A sodium test system is a device intended to measure sodium in serum, plasma, and urine. Measurements obtained by this device are used in the diagnosis and treatment of aldosteronism (excessive secretion of the hormone aldosterone), diabetes insipidus (chronic excretion of large amounts of dilute urine, accompanied by extreme thirst), adrenal hypertension, Addison's disease (caused by destruction of the adrenal glands), dehydration, inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion, or other diseases involving electrolyte imbalance. |
| • Troponin Subunit Enzymatic Method (FDA Code: MMI / 862.1215) A creatine phosphokinase/creatine kinase or isoenzymes test system is a device intended to measure the activity of the enzyme creatine phosphokinase or its isoenzymes (a group of enzymes with similar biological activity) in plasma and serum. Measurements of creatine phosphokinase and its isoenzymes are used in the diagnosis and treatment of myocardial infarction and muscle diseases such as progressive, Duchenne-type muscular dystrophy. |
| • Urea Nitrogen Ion Specific Electrode (FDA Code: CDS / 862.1770) A urea nitrogen test system is a device intended to measure urea nitrogen (an end-product of nitrogen metabolism) in whole blood, serum, plasma, and urine. Measurements obtained by this device are used in the diagnosis and treatment of certain renal and metabolic diseases. |