Our immunoassay analyser has been out of action since late afternoon Tuesday 31/5.
It is now nearly 12 noon on Friday 3/6. The engineer has been on site each day but only now has he convinced himself that he has found the fault (11.30 am) and will have it fixed by 13.30 hrs.
No Troponins or HCG/progesterone results which are used for urgent patient care apart from limited manual Trop T on a Roche cardiac reader and sending others to colleagues elsewhere.
What backup procedures/methods do other labs have for dealing with the immunoassay tests they are required to provide 24/7 ?
NOTE: We are currently out to tender for two immunoassay systems even though a single 200 test/hour system can deal with our workload when operational.
However I am aware that colleagues in a nearby a local with 2 analysers were in the situation of both being out of action recently.
Thanks
Paul
Dr Paul Eldridge
Clinical Biochemist
University Hospital Lewisham
London SE13 6LH
UK
Phone: (44) 020 8333 3255
Fax: (44) 020 8690 8891
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