Haemoglobin

Haemoglobin and 02-Haemoglobin

Blood is principally a transport medium. Haemoglobin, the red colorant in red blood cells, transports vitally important oxygen from the lungs into all body tissues.

Even a short interruption of the oxygen supply can lead to life-threatening damage of organs, or even death.

This is why haemoglobin plays such a crucial role in clinical diagnostics. But the adequate loading of haemoglobin with oxygen is not the only mechanism that renders blood necessary for life: the haemoglobin in the red blood cells then also has to make its way into the tissues. This requires a vascular system, with its own characteristic movement (vasomotion), to transport the blood to the vicinity of the organs that can absorb the oxygen.

The haemospect^® measures both O2 haemoglobin and vasomotion, rapidly and painlessly.