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Said: : "The manufacturer does not assign "Abnormal" flagging to any positive detectable level. That is left to the performing institution to decide what they want to call abnormal. Our proposal would be to report out the Trace result with a foot...

Said: : "Hi Kelly, Yes....you need an IQCP for the 80. The manufacturer states it in their info. We ran 3 levels of external LQC daily for 4 months. (mainly because I didn't have time to do the IQCP.) It was always spot on unless they put a b...

Said: : "Did you need to write an IQCP for the ABL80's? Does your QC frequency mean that you do not have to? Or is the instrument exempt? Any information you might have would be greatly appreciated."

Said: : "I cannot speak for the central/clinical lab on what they mask/convert but for POCT 'what you see is what you report'."

Said: : "We also use the ABL 80 in our Cath Lab. We order the 200 test solution pack and haven't wasted any. They usually run out at 7 weeks. Of course we run the external QC weekly instead of monthly. We went live 6/17/16 and have run 142 patient...