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100
Our recent 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's characterized by defects per million.
What is Six Sigma?
200
Beckman Coulter's new digital cell morphology analysis partner. This analyzer has Full-Field Peripheral Blood Smear™ Application 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 submit 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
This vendor's chemistry consistently provides better sigma levels than others according to 3rd party data.
Who is Beckman-Coulter?
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 parameter represents the average volume of a red blood cell.
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, Uranalysis, and Microbiology?
Bonus point: Informatics and Total Laboratory Automation?
400
This organization released new values for Total Allowable Error (Tea) for the first time since 1992.
What is the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA)?
500
The FDA recently gave Beckman-Coulter "breakthrough technology clearance" on blood-based biomarkers such as p-TAU 217, beta-Amyloid and GFAP. These markers belong to this category of testing.
What is the neurodegenerative disease state? What are Alzheimer markers?
500
These Chemistry analyzers allow you to load your reagents on the fly.
What are the DxC 500AU, the DxC 700AU, and the DxC 500i? Access2, DxI600, DxI800, DxI9000
500
Beckman Coulter's proprietary hematological marker that serves as an early sepsis indicator in Emergency Room patients.
What is MDW (Monocyte Distribution Width)? (or ESId)
500
Body fluids are FDA cleared down to _____ on the DxU.
What is 0?
500
Your local Beckman Coulter Team's names.
Who are Kim Antonelli, Caycee Johnson, Dave Richards, Melissa Cooling, and Jake Romesburg
500
The "godfather" of Six Sigma based rules in laboratory QC practices
Who is Dr. Westgard?