Discussion Category:  Blood Gas Analyzers

CO2 values outside of acceptable range

We have recently been running patients samples through both machines and finding almost half of our samples show CO2 values well out of acceptable range from one another. This is new since our last comparison run 6 months ago. Also, the samples have been collected and run by different therapists over the last month at different times and the variations are not isolated to one person or machine. I have also run a manual QC and found both machines to be within acceptable range of one another. Any idea why this is occuring and what to do about it?
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