A report of an evaluation of the Greiner G450 selective multichannel analyser is presented. Thirty different single-reagent tests can be carried out in one run at a rate between 200 and 400 tests/h. A double beam photometer allows kinetic and end-point measurements. A Radiometer FLM3 flame photometer has been included for the determination of electrolytes. The G450 analyser demonstrated excelle...

A 63-year old, male patient presented with prosthetic valve endocarditis and developed heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia (HIT) following heparin administration for continuous veno-venous haemofiltration. Use of cardiopulmonary bypass in patients suffering from heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia is difficult and challenging. We report a novel method that allows heparin use in patients diagnosed w...

We present a direct method of construction of a morphosyntactic guesser for Polish, which is a program producing morphosyntactic descriptions for word forms unknown to the morphological analyser. The core of the method is the construction of a statistical a tergo index, in which pseudo-suffixes (endings) extracted by a statistical tree define morpho-syntactic properties of corresponding word fo...

In the Harleco Micro CO2 System a volumetric procedure is used to measure total CO2 content in a small volume (0.10 ml) of serum or plasma. CO2 gas is released by mixing specimen and acid, either manually or with a "Micro CO2 Shaker." Within-batch CV's by manual and machine shakings were, respectively, 7.7 and 5.6% for a total CO2 value of 8 mmol/liter, decreasing to 2.0 and 1.4% for a value of...