Apparent high chloraemia in persons with deep third-degree burns: interference linked to topical treatment.

摘要

In recent years, we observed cases of abnormally high chloraemia in some patients hospitalised at the Burn Treatment Center, which are not consistent with the remaining aspects of the patient's hydro-electrolytic equilibrium. Disagreements are also observed between chloraemia measured by direct total arterial blood potentiometry (ABL~(TM) 700, Radiometer™ blood gas analyser) and those measured by indirect potentiometry on plasmatic samples (Cobas Integra 800~(TM), Roche Diagnostics).