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Comparison of Measurements of 12 Analytes in Equine Blood Samples Using the In-Practice Falcor 350 and the Reference KoneLab 30i Analysers

Table 2

Median (range) values and Deming’s regression analysis results for all analytes measured in 60 equine blood samples.


Analyte	Falcor median	Range	Konelab median	Range	Slope estimate	95% CI	Intercept estimate	95% CI

Albumin	36	15 to 41	33	15 to 39	1.13	1.03 to 1.23		−5.53 to 1.06	0.93
ALP	350	155 to 1398	161	88 to 527	2.64	2.45 to 2.84		−121.7 to −37.4	0.94
AST	315	194 to 7353	351	207 to 8183	0.90	0.90 to 0.91		3.71 to 16.1	0.98
tCa	3.18	2.56 to 5.62	3.04	2.40 to 4.58	1.53	1.30 to 1.76		−2.16 to −0.76	0.71
CK	247	73 to 3959	265	77 to 4435	0.89	0.88 to 0.90		8.29 to 24.1	0.98
Creatinine	117	60 to 167	119	65 to 194	1.02	0.86 to 1.18		−28.5 to 11.0	0.88
Phosphate	1.02	0.40 to 2.38	0.95	0.29 to 2.23	0.99	0.93 to 1.05		0.03 to 0.16	0.95
K⁺	3.45	2.44 to 5.79	3.81	2.92 to 7.06	0.89	0.83 to 0.94		−0.17 to 0.28	0.97
Na⁺	137	129 to 148	138	128 to 144	1.50	1.08 to 1.92		−126.7 to −11.4	0.68
TB	29	12 to 96	33	14 to 100	0.93	0.89 to 0.98		−1.47 to 2.63	0.98
TP	65	47 to 91	64	46 to 90	1.03	0.93 to 1.13		−6.83 to 6.07	0.92
Urea	6.2	3.2 to 41.5	5.1	2 to 8.9	−148	−1795 to 1498		−8003 to 9548	0.64

CI: confidence intervals, TP: total proteins, CK: creatine kinase, ALP: alkaline phosphatase, AST: aspartate aminotransferase, TB: total bilirubin, tCa: total calcium, Na⁺: sodium, K⁺: potassium.