TY - JOUR AU - Hall, Beverley AU - Iwasenko, Jenna AU - Moriatis, Mary AU - Rawlinson, William D. AU - Tracy, Mark B. AU - Tracy, Sally K. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/03/26 TI - A pilot study to determine the feasibility of collecting amniotic fluid samples from women during labour and measuring amniotic fluid lactate at point of care JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 112 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - The level of lactate in amniotic fluid may provide useful clinical information when assessing progress of a woman’s labour and if so, a rapid, reliable method to assess amniotic fluid lactate is required in order to be clinically relevant. However, measuring lactate levels in amniotic fluid, using portable, handheld lactate meters may be less accurate than reference laboratory instruments designed to measure lactate levels in aqueous solutions. Prior to conducting a large study, we assessed recruitment, consent and sampling procedures, and the accuracy of a handheld lactate meter to measure lactate in amniotic fluid. We compared amniotic fluid lactate results obtained using the hand held Lactate Pro (Arkray) to results obtained using reference laboratory methods ABX Pentra 400 (Horiba). SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-112 DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-6-112 ID - Hall2013 ER -