HemoCue AB Box 1204 262 23 Ängelholm SWEDEN   Phone: +46 77 570 02 10 Fax: +46 77 570 02 12 E-mail: info@hemocue.se    Contact in your country    Online Privacy Policy    Printer friendly	In trauma cases, operating theatres and intensive care units, it is necessary to instantly know the patient’s hemoglobin value. The HemoCue Hemoglobin system gives an accurate hemoglobin result within 60 seconds. Blood loss can be estimated, turn-around time can be dramatically reduced, there are potential manpower savings (both in elimination of personnel for transporting samples from unit to lab, and technician time) and the rapidity of test performance can all decrease pre-analytical factors. In emergency departments, operating rooms, and critical care units, getting accurate glucose values quickly is crucial. Extremes of hematocrit or pO2, as well as various drugs, are common in a critical care environment. These factors are important considerations in choosing a method for measuring glucose.   Easy to use, accurate, and precise, the HemoCue Glucose systems provide critical care professionals with glucose values that can be trusted. In Critical Care, the need for quick accurate and reliable results are vital. In Emergency Care quick results are needed in order to be able to refer patients to the appropriate site for treatment and in Intensive Care patient monitoring must be accurate and capable of quickly detecting changes in patient status. An abnormal white blood cell count levels may prompt search for acute infections. In post-operative care, an abnormal white blood cell count level may indicate postoperative infections.