Hi Sally,

We use a couple of Sysmex XS-1000i with mixer unit in our Oncology clinics.  Daily check, reagent changes, maintenance IQC and EQA etc are performed by Pathology Lab staff during out of hours 20:00 – 08:00 (takes an average of 30 min per analyser).  Correlation is excellent with main lab analysers (Sysmex XNs).  UKNEQASH compliance/reports are also fine.

Nursing staff perform the routine sample analysis during clinic 08:00-20:00.  It is easy to use.

IT side is more complex – the POCT and Main lab analysers all transmit results through a single Sysmex interface to the pathology computer database.  From there they are transmitted to our hospital results server where they collate into the patient records.  We do not allow results to be printed directly from analyser as we could not get the POC analyser to host-query with our PMI to add the patient details on the printout – an anonymous printout was unacceptable, hence the results must be accessed from the hospital results database.

Analyser also only has room for 20 unique passwords – so we cannot password protect the analyser from untrained users.  The analyser also does not automatically log-off so once a user is logged in the analyser remains open to all users.

Hope this helps.

Deborah Donovan

Section Manager, Critical Care Laboratory

Laboratory Medicine

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Southampton General Hospital

Tremona Road

Southampton

SO16 6YD

Tel: 023 8120 6721

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Dear Mailbase,

We have had a request from our haematology colleagues for a PoCT  5 part diff analyser for their haematological malignancy clinics.

Does anyone have any experience of 5 part diff devices in this clinical setting?

I will collate any responses and summarise in due course,

Many thanks,

Sally

Sally Slack MBIOCHEM, MSc, FRCPath

Consultant Biochemist

Blood Sciences

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust,

Cumberland Infirmary,

CARLISLE, CA2 7HY.

Tel:     01228 814521                  Fax:    01228 814831

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