"Two nations divided by one language" ?
Michael Ryan writes:
>>I would appreciate some advice. We have a small laboratory in an outlying
>>hospital. currently there is one MLSO situated there between 9.00 and 5.00
>>who does about a dozen u/es per day and is going mad with boredom. I want
>>to 'repatriate' the MLSO and put a small instrument that can more or less
>>run itself for the medics/nurses to use.
Humm - I tend to agree with Jonathan Kay and suggest you consider moving the
work to somewhere with sensible volumes.
A deal with a local taxi firm might work as well as a motorcycle, especially if
the work can be batched.
If you absolutely must have analysis on site I think
one choice is to upgrade a blood gas machine
to add sodium and potassium ( this will take most of the
heat out of the clinically urgent work). This assumes there
is a gas machine on site - but if there isn't then u&es (lytes)
seem a strange essential thing to have locally.
Another possibility is a DT60 Kodak Dry slide analyser but
there are significant training overheads for that.
(Yes I know it isn't Kodak anymore - I cannot keep up with all the mergers!)
I am mailing you separately about another system that appears
to generate random numbers as a matter of course and that I
would pay good money to NOT have in any clinical area....
(I feel a bit reticent about putting the company name in print here
-maybe someone can remind me what the libel/slander rules are :-) )
James Falconer Smith
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