Description

Comparative analysis of piezoelectric thromboelastograph ARP-01М «Mednord» (Russia) and thromboelastograph TEG 5000 (USA).

Instrumental Methods of the system regulating the aggregate state of blood play an important role in the arsenal of methods of investigation of the hemostatic system due to their reliability and validity, attract special attention of clinicians in connection with exceptional opportunities for rapid assessment of functional status and nature of the interaction of its component units, easy to perform research and its economy.

At the same time a vast majority of methods, despite their wide use in clinical practice, are marked with little informative base and low cost.

Thromboelastography, considered as “golden standard” among clinicians, regardless of the registration method, essentially determines four indicators: two chronometric (r, k) and two structural (МА, FА) ones, doesn’t ensure carrying out of dynamic control over the functional state of vascular-platelet, coagulatory and fibrinolytic links of the system. Besides, it’s necessary to note that a thromboelastograph needs expensive chemical reagents. This not only contributes to increase in the cost of the study itself, but also makes it impossible to compare the received results between hospitals using different reagents.

It is obvious that development of new research methods of the system regulating the aggregate state of blood is an urgent problem for clinical medicine.
Nowadays the company “Mednorth-Technics” has developed a hardware-software complex for clinical-diagnostic studies of blood rheological properties ARP-01M “Mednord” (piezoelectric thromboelastograph).