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Said: Ok that makes sense. I was unable to find a Medtronic source to verify.We only use the red and silver cartridges. We ran the 1 u/mL on the red, and it worked for the cartridge, and used the 2 and 3 u/mL on the silver, which both pro...

Said: An update. I spiked blood with cal ver material; 3 parts blood with 1 part cal ver and was able to get consistent results across the GEM and vitros chemistry analyzer. The matrix still looked like blood. There were no errors provided by...

Said: Here's what we do:Acceptable thresholds for the indicators are listed on the QI report.  The monitored quality indicators that are reported to the Laboratory Quality Team: o  ...

Said: We use Cal Ver, linearity, etc to span the reportable range. We do try to get patients to also challenge those, but that is not always feasible. If we can't prove the lower and high ends through any of these materials, then we change ou...

Said: Here's what we have in our policy: ·         The Hepline kit consists of 5 tubes containing increasing concentrations of heparin.  The tubes are designed to give final concentrations of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 un...