Stat Profile Prime Plus® VET Critical Care Blood Gas Analyzer

Simplified Veterinary Critical Care Testing
New Technologies Simplify Use, Eliminate Maintenance, and Add New Tests

Stat Profile Prime Plus VET is a comprehensive, whole blood critical care analyzer that combines blood gases, electrolytes, metabolites, co-oximetry, and 32 calculated results in a simple, compact analyzer. Prime Plus VET combines maintenance-free, replaceable cartridge technology for sensors and reagents with patented, new, maintenance-free, and non-lysing whole blood co-oximetry technology. Prime Plus VET results are produced very rapidly, a complete test menu panel in about one minute, and are combined with bidirectional connectivity and a powerful onboard data management system.

Nova MicroSensor Card™ Technology

Most comprehensive critical care menu
PO2   PCO2   pH   Hct   tHb   Na   Cl   K   iCa   iMg   TCO2   Urea (BUN)   Creat   Glu   Lac   SO2%   O2Hb   COHb   MetHb   HHb   tBil   HbF
  • All Prime Plus VET biosensors use proven Nova technology in a miniaturized, maintenance-free sensor card format.
  • Nova's MicroSensor cards combine all 22 whole blood assays including co-oximetry.

Important New Assays

Urea (BUN) and Creatinine
Kidney disease is common in cats and dogs. Prime Plus VET is the only veterinary critical care analyzer that provides the option of urea (BUN) and creatinine as well as calculated BUN/creatinine ratio.


Ionized magnesium (iMg)
Disruptions in the balance of iMg, Na, K, and iCa are common in veterinary medicine and can cause cardiac arrhythmias, reduced cardiac contraction, and cardiac arrest. Prime Plus VET is the only blood gas analyzer to provide a comprehensive profile of electrolytes including iMg.

Fast Stat Results

Prime Plus VET’s exceptional throughput easily handles the high sample workload of a busy practice. Prime Plus VET delivers a 22-test critical care profile in about one minute. Competitor analyzers can require up to four minutes, even with fewer tests reported.

Clot Protection

Prime Plus VET’s unique Clot Block™ sample flow path protects MicroSensor cards from blood clot blockages.

Individual Sensors and Calibrators Maximize Uptime

Individual MicroSensor cards and calibrator cartridges offer a significant benefit in analyzer uptime compared to combined sensor/calibrator cartridge systems.


MicroSensor cards have fastest replacement time
MicroSensor cards can be replaced and calibrated in 45 minutes. Other combined systems usually take greater than one hour to calibrate and remain unstable with drift and frequent re-calibrations for two hours or longer.


Calibrator cartridges replaced in seconds
Calibrator and quality control (QC) cartridges are immediately ready to use and easily replaced in seconds. Replacing only a calibrator cartridge significantly reduces analyzer downtime because it has no warm-up time, compared to the over two-hour wait for competitors’ combined systems.

Individual Sensors and Calibrators Lower Costs

Individual MicroSensor cards and calibrator cartridges are a low cost alternative to the inflexibility and waste of combined sensor/calibrator cartridge systems. For example, an analyzer in a high workload setting requires fewer sensor cards than calibrators, and a low volume workload setting requires the reverse. In both cases, Prime Plus VET eliminates waste and reduces overall consumable costs by using the full life of each MicroSensor card and calibrator cartridge.

Automated, True Liquid QC

Saves time and labor
Maintaining QC is one of the most time consuming aspects of critical care testing. Prime Plus VET’s fully automated, onboard liquid QC saves hours of time each week, compared to manually running controls.

Simple, Fast Operation

10.1 inch wide, high definition, color touchscreen operation
The large color touchscreen is easy to read and operate with intuitive prompts.


Three simple steps to initiate a full 22-test profile

1. Press "Start"
2. Scan or enter patient ID
3. Press "Aspirate"


Integrated barcode scanner
The 1D/2D barcode scanner, conveniently located within the sample port, allows for fast, error-free entry of operator and patient IDs. The optional, wireless, external barcode scanner also allows for positive patient ID, further eliminating pre-analytical error.

 

Safe Operation

The unique design of the safety sample port protects the user from accidental contact with the analyzer probe.

Syringes can be docked and sampled with
hands-free operation.
Hands-free capillary sampling can be performed
without adapters.

Samples can be aspirated directly from tubes,
eliminating sample transfer to a syringe or capillary.

QC proficiency ampoules can be sampled without adapters.

For more product information, click here or contact Nova Biomedical at: Nova Biomedical / 200 Prospect Street / Waltham, MA 02454 / 781-894-0800
For Nova Biomedical Sales inquiries, reach us at 1-800-458-5813. For Technical Support, reach us at 1-800-545-NOVA (6682). To place an order, call 1-800-822-0911 or email novaorders@novabio.com

Specifications


Stat Profile Prime Plus VET

 

Critical Care Test Menu Methodology
pH Direct ISE
PCO2 Severinghaus
PO2 Amperometric
SO2% Optical, reflectance
Hematocrit Conductivity/Na correction
Na Direct ISE
K Direct ISE
Cl Direct ISE
TCO2 Calculated
iCa Direct ISE
iMg Direct ISE
Glucose Enzyme/Amperometric
Lactate Enzyme/Amperometric
Urea (BUN) Enzyme/Amperometric
Creatinine Enzyme/Amperometric
CO-Oximetry Tests  
HHb, deoxyhemoglobin O2Hb, oxyhemoglobin
MetHb, methemoglobin COHb, carboxyhemoglobin
tHb, total hemoglobin SO2%, oxygen saturation
tBil, total bilirubin HbF, fetal hemoglobin

Other Nova Veterinary Products


Prime VET

Blood Gas/Electrolyte/
Metabolite Model
pH, PCO2, PO2, Hct, Na,
K, Cl, iCa, Glu, Lac


Prime VET Electrolyte System Comprehensive Electrolyte Model
Na, K, Cl, iCa, iMg

Nova VET Meter: Glucose, Ketone
StatSensor Creatinine Meter: Creatinine, eGFR
StatStrip Lactate Meter: Lactate

 

 

 

 


Other Features
Full color 10.1-inch touchscreen, multilingual, QC statistics, onboard data management, automatic sampler, integrated capillary adapter, optional barcode scanner, QC data storage, optional mobile cart with UPS

Sample Volume
135 μL whole blood

Operating Temperature Range
59°F-89.6°F

Physical Specifications
Height: 18.2 in (45.7 cm) Width: 14.2 in (35.6 cm)
Depth: 15.5 in (39.1 cm) Weight: 35 lb (15.88 kg) without reagent pack

Electrical Power Requirement
< 90 Watts

Printer
Onboard thermal printer and configurable to most Windows based printers

Calibration
Fully automatic two-point calibration every 2 hours; user-selectable single-point calibration every 45 minutes or with each sample. Manual calibration initiated at any time.

Acceptable Samples
Whole blood (heparinized), arterial, venous, mixed venous, capillary, dialysate

Communication Protocols
ASTM, HL7, or POCT1-A2 connectivity formats

Compact Size

Dimensions for Prime Plus VET, including onboard co-oximetry and built-in bidirectional connectivity:

 

 

Certifications and Compliance: Nova Biomedical is certified to FDA Quality System Regulations and EN ISO 13485:2016 Complies to IVDD Tested according to: EN 61010-1:2010, EN 61010-2-101:2015, EN 60825-1/A1:2014.

Specifications current as of revision date.