VAPRO® Vapor Pressure Osmometer

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Wescor

Emergency Room

  • Burn patients
  • Trauma, head injury, and shock
  • Coma
  • Diabetic coma

Prognosis

  • Serum osmolality and osmolal discriminant
  • Renal function

Monitoring

  • Stool analysis
  • Body fluids
  • Surgery
  • ADH therapy
  • Renal dialysis
  • Post operative
  • Burn therapy
  • Insulin therapy
  • Fetal maturity
  • Hyper/hyponatremia
  • I.V. therapy

Diagnosis

  • Cystic Fibrosis diagnosis by osmolality assay of sweat
  • Differential diagnosis of diabetes insipidus
  • Differential diagnosis of polyuria or oliguria

Quality Assurance

  • Blood bank assessment of residual glycerol in final cell suspensions
  • Enteral & parenteral nutrition preparations
  • Physiological infusion solutions
  • Monitoring infant formulas
  • Reagent and standard solutions
  • Toxicology
  • Pharmaceutical manufacturing and research
  • Cell biology

Research Applications

Vapro is the undisputed leader in research osmometry, with capability for any type of sample–fluids, viscous or tissue samples.

  • Veterinary medicine                       
  • Botany
  • Plant physiology
  • Electron microscopy
  • Genetic research
  • Food and beverage processing
  • Pharmacology
  • Marine biology
  • Cancer research
  • Molecular weight determinations (0-10,000 g/mol)
  • Tissue culture
  • Ophthalmology
  • Transplantation and embryology
  • Chemical industry
  • Soil physics
  • Agriculture