Quality Control
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?
A neurohormone used in the diagnosis and prognosis of congestive heart failure
What is BNP?
The process by which blood cells are formed
What is hematopoieisis?
Director, Laboratory Operations
Who is Nan Plunkett?
The year Medpace was founded
What is 1992?
Platelets
What is Hematology?
This citrus fruit is significant at Beckman Coulter
What is a lemon?
The name of the Cincinnati Bengals mascot
Who is Who Dey?
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)?
The range of analyte concentrations that a method can directly measure without any dilution, concentration, or other pretreatment.
What is Analytical Measurement Range (AMR)?
Immature red blood cells containing residual RNA
What are reticulocytes?
Vice President, MRL Operations and MARC
Who is Dr. Turner?
The year the laboratory relocated to 5363 Medpace Way
What is 2012?
Apolipoprotein CII
What is Chemistry?
A member of the National Inventor's Hall of Fame and holder of 85 patents. Best known for his long line of innovative breakthroughs in hematology analysis which radically changed hematology by allowing more accurate and faster CBC (Complete Blood Count) analysis.
Who was Wallace Coulter?
The "Hits King" Pete Rose's hit record.
What is 4,256?
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?
The most common method used in the clinical lab to measure electrolytes
What are Ion Selective Electrodes (ISEs)?
Beckman Coulter's proprietary hematological marker that serves as an early sepsis indicator in Emergency Room patients
What is Monocyte Distribution Width?
Principal Scientist, Central Laboratory
Who are Dr. Robbins or Dr. Allen?
The year the lab split into two separate teams for 2+ months
What is 2020?
proBNP
What is Immunology?
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?
Cincinnati's minor league hockey team
Who are the Cyclones?
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?
In a serial dilution, if tube 1 is undiluted and twofold dilutions are used thereafter, this is the titer in tube #10
What is 512?
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?
Senior Director, Clinical Laboratory Science
Who is Dr. Marcovina?
The year Medpace went public
What is 2016?
C3a
What is ELISA?
Location of the Beckman Coulter's global headquarters
Where is Brea, California?
German inspired dish that is made from ground meat and oats.
What is the goetta?
These two pathologists were the pioneers of using statistics for the standardization and calibration of analytical procedures.
Who are Levey and Jennings?
The difference between measured cations (positively charged ions like Na+ and K+) and measured anions (negatively charged ions like Cl- and HCO3-)
What is Anion Gap?
This cell synthesizes immunoglobulins
Senior Director, Laboratory and Scientific Operations
Who is Dr. Daniels?
The year the first molecular test was validated
What is 2015?
Plasminogen
What is Coagulation?
While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded his company based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". He also developed the DU spectrophotometer, "probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of bioscience".
Who is Dr. Arnold Beckman?
Who is Marty Brennaman?