Gary,
I agree with you. In my former place of work, UCLH, and here at Barnet & Chase, the gas EQA is carried out by lab staff. My personal feeling is:
a) if you left them by the analyser, they may well be discarded or left to deteriorate, and in any case, many labs do not get sent separate aliquots for each POCT site, and
b) if one is EQA'ing the operator, then surely it should be extended to every operator using the piece of POCT kit??
I know some Hospitals have tried to target all nurses for blood glucose EQA, but in the real world this is really difficult. Many Departments struggle to get a full set of returns.
Regards
Pauline
Pauline Angel
Principal Biochemist
Chair POCT Committee
Chemical Pathology Dept
Barnet General Hospital
Barnet & Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust
Wellhouse Lane
Barnet
Herts
EN5 3DJ
Tel: 020 8216 4930
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Subject: POCT Blood Gas EQA
Following a recent CPA inspection, one of the non conformances was to do
with EQA for POCT Blood Gas analysers.
We were told that laboratory staff who service, maintain and IQC the
analysers should not be analysing the EQA samples, this should be done by
other staff. However, none of the EQA samples are actually whole blood in
a syringe, so how could we possibly assess the ability of the users to
correctly mix the EQA sample in a different way and matrix to how they
would normally handle a patient sample?
We feel that we are EQA ing the analyser and not the users, in the same
way we perform EQA for our in laboratory analysers for other analytes, and
intend to respond in this way.
We would be grateful to hear how others handle this issue, and whether
anyone else has been given the same non conformance following a CPA
inspection.
Thanks,
Gary
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