2018 ACVIM Forum Research Abstract Program: Seattle, Washington, June 14 - 15, 2018

Simultaneous venous and ear prick blood samples were collected from 53 dogs that were considered to be anaemic (n = 17), non-anaemic (n = 30), or polycythaemic (n = 6) and were undergoing blood sampling as part of their clinical investigation. Hb and Hct were measured on both samples using a POC meter that requires a 2 microliter sample volume and which has been previously validated in our hospital and shown to have a correlation (r) of 0.96 with standard laboratory analysers and a co-efficient of variation of less than 5 %. Hb and Hct measurements were also obtained from the venous samples using one of two reference analyzers in 40 of the dogs. Pearson';s correlation co-efficient was calculated for the two sets of POC results and the bias calculated (and expressed as mean +/-standard deviation).