Beckman Coulter
Dr. Arnold Beckman’s first major invention was the pH meter created in 1934 to measure the acidity of this specific citrus fruit for the California fruit growers Association.
What is a lemon?
A slow movement of the data mean from one level to another indicative of a systematic error that is occurring slowly, such as reagent deterioration, control deterioration, or a lens getting progressively dirtier
What is a trend?
This “bone and liver” enzyme is often elevated during periods of rapid bone growth or biliary obstruction
What is alkaline phosphotase?
The process by which blood cells are formed
What is hematopoieisis?
Director, Laboratory Operations
Who is Nan Plunkett?
Laboratory Notable and Critical Results
GL-LA-12
T. Cruzi
What is Molecular?
This person once bowled a 299.
Who is Nick W?
Wallace Coulter’s first commercial automated cell counter which reduced a 20 minute manual red cell count to just 15 seconds was known by this letter model name.
What is the Model A?
This measures the precision of a set of numbers expressed as a percentage.
What is the coefficient of variation or CV?
The range of analyte concentrations that a method can directly measure without any dilution, concentration, or other pretreatment.
What is Analytical Measurement Range (AMR)?
This large white blood cell with folded or kidney-shaped nuclei becomes a macrophage once it enters tissues.
What is a Monocyte?
Vice President, MRL Operations and MARC
Who is Dr. Turner?
Problem Sample Handling
GL-LA-09
Protein_AX
What is urinalysis?
This person has a pet axolotl.
Who is Daniel S?
Dr. Beckman is often credited with helping to birth this tech-heavy California region when he funded William Shockley to start a semiconductor laboratory in 1955.
What is Silicon Valley?
This type of QC uses the patient’s own previous results to detect lab errors or setting clinical changes
What is a delta check?
This test measures average blood glucose levels over the past 2 to 3 months
What is hemoglobin A1C?
This RBC morphology feature which look like “stacked coins”, are often seen in patients with high globulin levels.
What is rouleaux?
Principal Scientist, Central Laboratory
Who are Dr. Robbins or Dr. Allen?
Manual Data Entry
GL-LA-28
MBI_CX_SETUP
What is microbiology?
This person is scuba certified?
Who is Cristy M or Sam B?
Beckman Coulter’s headquarters is located in this sunny California city
What is Brea, CA?
Under CLIA, this type of testing must be performed three times a year to verify Lab accuracy against peers
What is proficiency test testing?
This calculation, (Na+) - (Cl- + HCO3-), is used to identify causes of metabolic acidosis
What is anion gap?
These giant bone marrow cells are the precursor to platelets which are formed when the cytoplasm of the cell fragments into thousands of pieces.
What are megakaryocytes?
Director, Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Who is Dr. Marcovina?
Centrifuge and Microfuge Operations and Maintenance
GL-LA-27
LDH
What is Chemistry?
This person studied abroad in Luxembourg.
Who is Julia R?
Beckman Coulter has several markers available for research use only. pTau217, NFL and GFAP are used for testing various versions of these types of disease.
What are Neurodegenerative diseases?
These two pathologists were the pioneers of using statistics for the standardization and calibration of analytical procedures.
Who are Levey and Jennings?
This condition characterized by low serum calcium often presents with a tetany of the muscles.
What is hypocalcemia?
This type of lymphocyte is the reactive lymphocyte in EBV infection.
What is a T lymphocyte?
Bioinformatics Scientist
Who is Wenyi Qin?
Specimen Collection and Processing
GL-LA-11
SPEP_Alpha1frax_Flex
What is a electrophoresis?
This person was a firefighter in paramedic for 17 years
Who is Brian F?
A proprietary calculation developed by Beckman Coulter that uses a combination of three blood tests, PSA, Free PSA and P2PSA to produce a score that provides more information about what elevated PSA levels might mean and the probability of finding prostate cancer on biopsy.
What is the prostate health index or PHI?
Occurs when the quality control results are all distributed on one side of the mean or the other
What is a shift?
The Jaffe reaction is the classic method used to measure this waste product of muscle metabolism.
What is creatinine?
This fundamental principle patented in 1953 uses electrical impedance to count and size microscopic particles suspended in a conductive fluid.
What is the Coulter Principle?
Senior Medical Director
Who is Dr. McGee?
Internal Quality Control
GL-LA-20
ACTH
What is immunology?
This person has never broken a bone.
Who is Luke H?