Offer your clinicians one of the most important critical care assays plasma volume
Plasma volume status is vital in testing critically ill patients but is extremely difficult and costly to obtain, particularly as a POC test. Plasma volume assessment affects almost every aspect of a patient’s care, including giving IV fluids, diuresing, starting vasopressors, initiating renal replacement therapy, deciding on transfusion requirements and intubation and extubation.1,2