ABL90 CAL VER Verification
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Hello Everyone,
I am trying to do the calibration verification for our ABL90 and I was wondering how you guys are doing it? We have 6 ABL90's throughout the hospital with only 1 non-stationary.
- Looking at the instruction it says to run it minimum of 3x for CV% and repeatability calculations. How did you do it if you can't have all the instruments together? Will it still give a good repeatability calculation using 1 vial per instrument?
Thank you!
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We only did the 3X when we brought the instrument in-house. I only run them once per level. Depending on your accreditation agency, you may need to run it on all the analyzers. We only have one instrument so don't have to worry. For my istat, of which i have multiple, i do subsets, rotating them so everyone gets one done at least once / year.
Shawn
Hi Shawn,
We have 6 RP500s. Our cal ver kit package insert specifically states that you need to run 3 at each level. What does your PI state?
Sara
Thank you for the insight. I tried running 3x, the 3rd one is always off. I like how Shawn do it, I might have to opt to doing that. It's just impossible to run 3 because each run takes 1 minute.
The package insert does not state anything too. I was just looking at the Radiometer Manual for VK kits.
Running 3 times is to establish a CV%. We are not doing that each time we run a calibration verification. We are checking our linearity and AMR.
Shawn
Donna,
You need to run the following CalVer PER instrument:
1. 3 vials of level 1
2. 3 vials of level 2
3. 3 vials of level 3
Your instruments do NOT need to be side by side. Each vial can only be used once on one instrument. I know it is a huge waste, but that is Radiometer's instruction.