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Chem/IA
Hematology
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Beckman Coulter
100
What is the DxC 500i?
What is our recent FDA cleared integrated CC/IA analyzer? 
100
The number of steps and tools required to do simple maintenance 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
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?
100
Beckman Coulters Global headquarters location?
Where is Brea, California?
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.
Scopio! 
200
The preferred biomarker to aid in the diagnosis of a myocardial infarction?
What is HsTnI (high-sensitivity 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 the DxH 690T & DxH 900
200
Auto Particle Recognition (APR) software analyzes these 4 attributes for automatic classification.
What is Size, Shape, Contrast & Texture.
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 peer-group
200
Our founder, Wallace Coulter, is best known for developing this widely used method for counting and sizing microscopic particles suspended in a fluid, known as the ________?
What is the Coulter Principle?
300
Beckman Coulter's newest immunoassay analyzer with zero daily maintenance, disposable tips to reduce carryover, and a new substrate that reduces all assay run times 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 cell types
What are Lymphocyte, Monocyte, Eosinophil, basophil, and Neutrophil?
300
This is the color of the body fluid rack.
What is Blue?
300
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?
300
In 1934, he revolutionized chemistry by inventing the first electronic pH meter while a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Who is Arnold Coulter?
400
Beckman Coulters 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 up to 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
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)
400
Beckman Coulter manufactures industry leading analyzers in these 5 disciplines:
Chemistry, Immunochemistry, Hematology, Urinalysis, Microbiology
Bonus point: Informatics and Total Laboratory Automation
500
Beckman Coulter recently announced availability of new RUO blood-based biomarker immunoassays such as p-Tau217 and GFAP to advance this emerging diagnostic market?
What is neurodegenerative disease?
500
The Chemistry analyzers allow you to load reagents and calibrator on the fly?
What is the DxC 500AU, DxC700AU, DxC500i
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
This is the target range of the negative QC on the IQ.
What is 0-20.
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?
500
Your Local Beckman Coulter Teams names
Who are...?
Mark Brown: Trinity Account Manager
Kristen Fabiano: Chem/IA Specialist
Haley Moulton: Heme/UA Specialist