Issues with pO2 corrections on EPOC
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Hello,
I'm having trouble with my API and CAP surveys failing for the EPOC handheld system. On our last API survey, my staff ran the 5 levels of BG samples, then I used the EPOC manual's pO2 correction equation. I submitted the corrected pO2 results and three of them failed out too high from the acceptable range. If I had not done the pO2 correction, they would have passed.
We do the pO2 correction per the EPOC manual for QC and Cal Ver and this does help push the results in the median of the range. But for survey samples, it seems to be causing them to fail too high.
Is anyone else experiencing this on the EPOC device? I'm going to reach out to Siemens and API today, just curious if anyone had any advice.
Thanks!
Jake
Jacob.Fray@dhha.org
I'm having trouble with my API and CAP surveys failing for the EPOC handheld system. On our last API survey, my staff ran the 5 levels of BG samples, then I used the EPOC manual's pO2 correction equation. I submitted the corrected pO2 results and three of them failed out too high from the acceptable range. If I had not done the pO2 correction, they would have passed.
We do the pO2 correction per the EPOC manual for QC and Cal Ver and this does help push the results in the median of the range. But for survey samples, it seems to be causing them to fail too high.
Is anyone else experiencing this on the EPOC device? I'm going to reach out to Siemens and API today, just curious if anyone had any advice.
Thanks!
Jake
Jacob.Fray@dhha.org
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