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Ashley Liles posted a reply on Re: i-STAT and MediTech

Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 at 8:14 AM

Said: David, How does your facility handle eGFR calculations that are "unable to calculate" due to age conflict. Currently, anyone under age is simply not calculated which leaves the order in a Pending Status. This is g...

David Pauff posted a reply on Re: i-STAT and MediTech

Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 at 7:19 AM

Said: What's up Ashley? I use i-Stat, QML and Meditech.

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Theresa Galway posted a new Topic

Monday, Feb 22, 2021 at 1:15 PM

Pleural fluid pH validation on Siemens RAPIDPoint 500

We are taking on oversight of our Respiratory Therapy blood gas testing and need to validate pleural fluid pH on their Siemens RAPIDPoint 500 analyzers. We just found out that they never validated the test using pleural fluid specimens. Our main laboratory does body fluid pH testing but not on pleural fluid. We would greatly appreciate any insight on how others have accomplished such a validation.

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Theresa and Sherri

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Reine Makiya posted a reply on Re: Clinitek Status +

Monday, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:11 AM

Said: We also use the Kenlor QC from Fisher. Like the refrigerated shelf life of 2 years if kept refrigerated. QC is set to lockout every day of testing. We add barcodes to each bottle so they can scan the lot# of the QC bot...