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Melissa Burland posted a new Topic

Thursday, Aug 5, 2021 at 8:34 AM

Temperature Monitoring for GEM 5000

Currently our team is monitoring the temperature of the materials and the location of the GEM 5000 Blood Gas Analyzer. Does the location the instrument is housed need to be monitored for this analyzer? (We do not do temperature correction on any of our values).

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Melissa Burland

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Melissa Burland posted a reply on Re: Abbott BinaxNOW

Thursday, Aug 5, 2021 at 8:32 AM

Said: We currently use BinaxNow COVID-19 cards for employee testing in our long term facilities. They are pretty easy to use and user friendly. Sample collection is less invasive then some of the other tests, but there are limitat...

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Thursday, Aug 5, 2021 at 7:52 AM

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Debbie Whitehair posted a reply on Re: Abbott BinaxNOW

Wednesday, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:07 PM

Said: You may want to read these 2 articles as there are limitations of this test in asymptomatic people:https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/cdc-study-says-abbott-s-rapid-covid-19-antigen-test-may-miss-two-thirds-asymptomatic-casesh...

Ashley Liles posted a reply on Re: Abbott BinaxNOW

Wednesday, Aug 4, 2021 at 3:47 PM

Said: Thank you, Sherilyn!