“This is important not only to reduce the risk of infections and vascular or nerve damage with invasive sampling, it also helps to reduce the amount of blood collected for biochemical analyses. This is relevant as ~30% of blood transfusions in the ICU are caused by iatrogenic blood sampling (3). Noninvasive monitoring of pulmonary gas exchange may thus aid to save human blood products, which are a scarce resource, and increase patient safety by avoiding the deleterious negative association of blood transfusion with short-term (survival) and long-term (tumor frequencies) outcome.”*
*https://physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajplung.00515.2018
The AGM100™ is not intended to replace arterial blood gas sampling for diagnosis or treatment purposes.