A spectrophotometric flow-injection analysis (FIA) system for monitoring cl
inical hemodialysis is demonstrated. The role of a dialysate urea detector
incorporated in this bioanalytical system is played by an optical flow-thro
ugh biosensor based on Prussian Blue film with chemically linked urease for
ming a monomolecular layer of the enzyme. This pH-enzyme optode-FIA system
is useful for the selective determination of post-dialysate urea in the ran
ge of concentration corresponding to its level in real clinical samples (2-
16 mmol l(-1)). This bioanalytical system allows the analysis of about 15 s
amples of spent dialysate per hour. The operational and storage stabilities
of the applied biosensor are longer than 2 weeks and 2 months, respectivel
y. Clinical evaluation of the bioanalytical system was performed.