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100
Beckman Coulters most recently FDA cleared integrated CC/IA analyzer.
What is the DxC 500i?
100
The number of steps and tools required to do simple maintance procedures on a Beckman Coulter Chemistry analyzer.
What is 3 steps, no tools, and 60 seconds?
100
Immature red blood cells containing residual RNA.
What are reticulocytes?
100
The name of the reagent that sandwiches sample in the flow cell. It is positively charged to help properly align the particles.
What is lamina?
100
Location of the Beckman Coulter's global headquarters.
Where is Brea, California?
100
A quality management strategy that categorizes process capability by evaluating how many process standard deviations can fit within the tolerance limits of the process. The more standard deviations that fit between the mean of the process and the tolerance limits, the more robust the process will be.
What is Six Sigma?
200
Beckman Coulter's new digital cell morphology analysis partner with Full-Field Peripheral Blood Smear™ Application and AI-based Decision Support System allows labs to zoom, pan and share high-resolution, digitized samples without having to go back to the manual microscope.
What is Scopio?
200
The preferred biomarker to aid in the diagnosis of a myocardial infarction.
What is HsTnI (high-sensitive Troponin)?
200
This Hematology analyzer delivers accurate, first-analysis results through proprietary VCS technology with fewer slide reviews and high system reliability for maximum uptime.
What is DxH 690T and DxH 900?
200
Auto-Particle Recognition (APR) software analyzes these 4 attributes for automatic classification.
What is Size, Shape, Contrast and Texture?
200
Our co-founder, Wallace Coulter is best known for developing this widely used method for counting and sizing microscopic particles suspended in a fluid, known as ______?
What is The Coulter Principle?
200
A group of laboratories who use the same brand and model of instruments to analyze the same specimens—usually specially calibrated QC materials with the same lot numbers—and submit their results to a central facility.
What is a Peer Group?
300
Beckman Coulter's newest immunoassay analyzer with Zero daily maintenance, disposable tips to reduce carryover, and a new substrate that reduces all assay TATs by 5 or more minutes.
What is the DxI 9000?
300
A neurohormone used in the diagnosis and prognosis of congestive heart failure.
What is BNP?
300
The 5 white blood cells types.
What are Lymphocyte, Monocyte, Eosinophil, Basophil, and Neutrophil?
300
This is the color of the body fluid rack.
What is blue?
300
In 1934, he revolutionized chemistry by inventing the first electronic pH meter while a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Who is Dr. Arnold Beckman?
300
A graph that quality control data is plotted on to give a visual indication whether a laboratory test is working well.
Levy-Jennings chart?
400
Beckman Coulter's new concentrated diluent system that reduces reloads by 94%
What is RPI (Reagent Preparation Instrument)?
(Every box of concentrated diluent is the equivalent of 18 boxes of standard diluent.)
400
Beckman Coulter has the longest lasting ISE/Electrodes (twice as long as the nearest competitor) with a guaranteed stability of ____?
What is 6 months or 40,000 tests?
400
This represents the average volume of a red blood cell. It is calculated by dividing the total volume of packed red blood cells by the total number of red blood cells in a blood sample.
What is MCV?
400
This is the frequency at which a tech would need to manually review at the scope with the IRIS.
What is 4% or less?
400
Beckman Coulter manufactures industry leading analyzers in these 5 disciplines.
What are Chemistry, Immunoassay, Hematology, Urinalysis, and Microbiology?
Bonus point: Informatics and Total Laboratory Automation?
400
An amendment to the Public Health Services Act in which Congress revised the federal program for certification and oversight of clinical laboratory testing.
What is the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA)?
500
Beckman Coulter recently announced availability of new RUO blood-based biomarker immunoassay such as p-TAU 217 and GFAP to advance this emerging diagnostic market.
What is the neurodegenerative disease state?
500
These Chemistry analyzers allow you to load your reagents and calibrators on the fly.
What are the DxC 500AU, the DxC 700AU, and the DxC 500i?
500
Beckman Coulter's proprietary hematological marker that serves as an early sepsis indicator in Emergency Room patients.
What is MDW (Monocyte Distribution Width)?
500
The DxU automatically quantifies particles and classifies into this many categories.
What is up to 12 main categories?
BONUS: up to 27 sub categories
500
Beckman Coulter is an operating company under this company.
What is Danaher?
500
A rule set of statistical patterns, each being unlikely to occur by random variability, thereby raising a suspicion of faulty accuracy or precision of the measurement system.
What are Westgard Rules?