Arterial blood gas support for ICU, OT and NICU.
The range above is an indicative planning figure taken from our own research, not a quotation and not an offer. buytogethr is pre-launch and has closed no pools.
A blood gas analyser is bought to stand ready around the clock in intensive care, theatres, the neonatal unit and casualty, and that changes the arithmetic. Its sensor cartridges or packs are consumed on a calendar as much as by samples, so an instrument idle overnight still costs money. Quotes vary on the reported panel, on whether lactate, co-oximetry, ionised calcium, glucose and bilirubin are present and whether they can be enabled later or never; on sample volume, which decides neonatal use; and on how much of the maintenance runs unattended. Two mistakes recur: specifying a panel the intensivists outgrow within a year, and settling a price for one unit when the hospital will end up placing three.
Once critical care services are comparable, institutions differ least on the clinical panel, so a shared specification is achievable. What makes the line worth pooling is placement count. Hospitals rarely buy one, and a group buying across several critical care areas creates a consumable line large enough to hold a fixed price for a defined term. Award the instruments and the cartridge schedule together, and settle uptime obligations in the same document. A blood gas result cannot wait for a reference laboratory, so the response time clause carries a clinical cost as well as a commercial one.