Background: Laboratorians are left unguided by a paucity of literature on how to configure rules for the detection of intravenous (IV) fluid contamination in blood samples. We designed a study to determine the in vitro effect of increasing blood sample contamination from commonly used crystalloid solutions and how these observations can guide the derivation of multianalyte delta checks to detect such pre-analytical error.
Methods: In this study, we spiked increasing volumes of commonly used IV fluids (normal saline (NS), lactated ringers (LR), and 5% dextrose) into blood samples that were collected from healthy donors. Routine chemistry analytes were measured and compared between neat and contrived samples. From these observations, we derived several permutations of multianalyte delta checks using the basic metabolic panel framework and evaluated rule performance using retrospective data.
Results: The wet chemistry experiments showed that increasing the volume of crystalloid solution contamination significantly changed several analytes. Subsequently derived multianalyte delta check procedures were applied to retrospective data. For all IV fluids tested, smaller magnitudes of analyte change resulted in more samples flagged.
Conclusion: Multianalyte delta checks may be an effective method for the detection of IV fluid contamination.
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