VERY stupid rabbit bloods question

Re: VERY stupid rabbit bloods question

Noweia — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:43:20 GMT

Our IDEXX machines have parameteres for a surprising range of species, although have noted Calcium ranges in rabbits are slightly low.

Re: VERY stupid rabbit bloods question

Niall Taylor — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:19:08 GMT

[quote user="james herriot lied"] Can I run rabbit bloods on the idexx machine? Obviously, I need parameters etc, but is there any absolute barrier?[/quote]

No reason not to AFAIK, the Vettest 8008 has a lot more normals on it than just cats and dogs. Any doubt phone Idexx - the machine was developed by Kodak originally for work on zoo animals and they have an enormous range of normals, including some real exotics like dolphins; they'll definitely have rabbit stuff.

Niall

Re: VERY stupid rabbit bloods question

Marie Kubiak — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:03:40 GMT

They should run fine and most modern machines will have reference values for rabbits.

Had a rep try and convince me last year that their haematology machine would work fine for birds and reptiles, took ages to explain to him that it really wouldn't!

Marie

Re: VERY stupid rabbit bloods question

Michael Woodhouse — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:52:20 GMT

You should be able to run any mammalian blood on your analyser. It's when you get to haematology machines and birds that things get confusing.

Obviously make allowances for the reference range.....