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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...

Said: We have this setup as well with ISTAT ACTk in multiple areas and HMS in Perfusion only. Since the HMS's will eventually be sunsetted, we will have to figure out what we will do for Perfusion. Traditionally, they don't want anything to d...

Said: I didn't realize there was a screen for this- thanks Angie! Will look into this for us. Currently, we have canned comments in the PreDefined Comments section and then they have to type in the full name in Enter Comment.  Here's wha...

Said: We use RNA Medical QC and Cal Ver kit. Works well for us. We do biannual patient correlations against our GEMS for THgb and %HbO2. We also correlate to the Main Lab - THgb to Sysmex and then THgb and %HbO2 to the Radiometer gas instrume...

Said: OK, so then it's possible it could have been the sampling issue all along, as Deanna suggested?  When I first read your post I thought you were saying the problem was only observed after the pharmacy had a change in heparin vendor....