Lab Safety
The acronym PASS is used to teach lab staff how to use this safety device.
What is a Fire Extinguisher?
Occurs when the quality control results are all distributed on one side of the mean or the other
What is a shift?
The CEO of Theranos, a company whose intent was to increase the accessibility of diagnostics in partnership with Companies like Walgreens.
Who is Elizabeth Holmes?
Electrochemical ion sensors that convert the activity of a target ion into an electrical potential as the measurable signal.
What are ISEs?
A fully automated system to streamline the urinalysis workflow.
What is the DXU Iris Workcell?
Alex used this term to describe how our chemistry and immunoassay analyzers achieve the highest throughput and reliability. HINT: the opposite would be sequential processing.
What is parallel processing?
To properly wash your hands, it is recommended to sing this common tune.
What is the Alphabet song or Happy Birthday?
A graph that quality control data is plotted on to give a visual indication whether a laboratory test is working well.
What is a Levy-Jennings chart?
The name of Theranos' flagship analyzer, or name of the book, or name of the Hulu Docudrama?
What is the Edison?
A method to measure how much a chemical substance absorbs light by measuring the intensity of light as a beam of light passes through sample solution.
What is Spectrophotometry?
Hematology analyzer that delivers accurate, first-analysis results through proprietary VCS technology.
What is the DXH 900?
What does the Dx prefix mean for Beckman Coulter products?
What is Diagnostic Excellence?
The study of people in their working environment.
What is ergonomics?
A 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?
Harry Potter's patronus took the form of a stag. What was Professor Lupin's?
What is a (were)wolf?
The results are:
K+ = 13.0 mmol/L
Ca = 2.5 mg/dL
What is EDTA contamination?
Clinical chemistry analyzer is the latest innovation in a line of reliable chemistry systems for the mid- to high-volume laboratory.
What is the DxC 700 AU?
The DxA 5000's centrifuges are powerful. How long do we spin for?
How many is 4 minutes?
Any contaminated object that can penetrate the skin, including but not limited to, needles, scalpels, broken glass, broken capillary tubes, etc.
What are Sharps?
A measure of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean
What is Standard Deviation?
The name of the protagonists' ship in the fictional Matrix Series, named after a Babylonian King
What is the Nebuchadnezzar?
A process that is used to demonstrate the suitability of an analytical method for an intended purpose.
What is Method Validation?
An American electrical engineer, inventor, and businessman. The best known of his 85 patents is the Coulter principle, which provides a method for counting and sizing microscopic particles suspended in fluid.
Who was Wallace Coulter?
The DxA performs a 3 second pre-analytical inspection on every sample loaded. Name any 2 pieces of information it captures.
What is?:...
Read (up to 3 levels of barcodes)
Measure sample tube size
Identify container type
Identify Container Cap type
Identify Container Cap Color
Measure Fill Level
Measure Sample Volume
Calculate Sample weight
Conducts pre-spun status check.
Documents that describe the physical and health hazards of chemicals or chemical-containing products
What are Safety Data Sheets (SDS)?
A quality control protocol that uses patient results to monitor the performance of an instrument system.
What is a moving average?
This individual is an industry leader in Quality Laboratory Medicine, and has recently joined an exclusive partnership with Beckman Coulter to improve QC efficiency in relation to the 2024 CLIA changes? HINT: He worked with whistleblower Erika Cheung during the fall of Theranos.
Who is Sten Westgard?
The emission of photons when chemically excited molecules decay to ground state following a chemical reaction.
In 1934, he invented the pH meter while a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Who is Dr. Arnold Beckman?
Beckman Coulter is the only company whose portfolio covers the core lab ecosystem. All of the results management, data flow, and even inventory is managed by THIS brand of Middleware? What's our IT called?