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Said: Like many others, we use a primary i-Stat to compare to the lab and then use QC/Cal Ver material to compare them to each other.  My concern is that this would change the routine QC requirements.  Currently our IQCP has us perf...

Said: For our iSTAT-to-iSTAT comparison, we use a similar process to that mentioned by Kim Ballister. QC material is tested every 6 months for every cartridge type performed on the specific handheld. Same lot of cartridges and qc are used to ...

Said: This has been a CLIA requirement that we have had to do for any of our CLIA compliance locations and also a CAP requirement as well.  We utilize either QC or Cal Ver material running the same lot of material using the same lot of c...

Said: My understanding is that this came from CMS/CLIA, so I expect that CAP will soon send out the same notification. I'm also expecting them to say the same about the Epoc device, since it has been considered a reader similar to the i-STAT ...

Said: We are CAP for hospital labs (6) and iSTAT's are compared to each other 2x per year at each site. We use QC to compare our iSTAT/iSTAT, our largest site has about 60 that we compare to each other. We use the same lot of QC and same lot ...