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Jessica Anners posted a reply on Re: Neonate Blood Sugar Problems with Nova Stat...

Thursday, Aug 18, 2022 at 3:57 PM

Said: Reine, can you tell me how you performed the comparisons? How many samples did you use?I'm thinking about doing a comparison myself and talking to Nova about it. We have too many neonates being admitted to NICU unnec...

Contessa Hall posted a new Topic

Thursday, Aug 18, 2022 at 3:51 PM

Additional Instruments (Waived)

We currently perform A1C on the DCA Vantage and UAs on the Clinitek Status. When we get additional instruments (waived testing), do we need to do any type of verification? I believe the current practice is too intensive for waived...it involves basically a correlation between the core lab and an established instrument, QC, etc. COM.30980 doesn't mention anything that CAP requires other than to do what the manufacturer recommends. (I can't find anything from the manufacturer for either as...

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Reine Makiya posted a reply on Re: Neonate Blood Sugar Problems with Nova Stat...

Thursday, Aug 18, 2022 at 3:36 PM

Said: We were getting a lot of <10 mg/dl so NICU was having a fit. Yes, we ran a comparison between the morning blood gases on our ABL835's (it has whole blood glucose) and immediately tested on the Nova meter. We ran a lot of ...

Silka Clark posted a reply on Re: iSTAT to iSTAT comparisons for large numbers

Thursday, Aug 18, 2022 at 3:27 PM

Said: Hi Kim, We did not compare iSTATs across different facilities, only within the same CAP number. We used to run liquid QC after the CLEW Update and Thermal Probe Check on every handheld and would use that data as ou...

Kim Ballister posted a reply on Re: iSTAT to iSTAT comparisons for large numbers

Thursday, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:46 PM

Said: Hi Adonica! We will be on the same lot of QC by October, currently some are on a lot expiring in Sept. I know same lot QC will make it easier. What about cartridge lot's? Are you using all the same lot cartridges and are you testi...