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This is our newest updated small volume clinical chemistry analyzer with updated software and load on the fly reagents to align with our DXC 700 AU.

What is the DxC 500?

100

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?

100

A neurohormone used in the diagnosis and prognosis of congestive heart failure

What is BNP?

100

The process by which blood cells are formed

What is hematopoieisis?

100

This citrus fruit is significant at Beckman Coulter

What is a lemon?

100

The name of the Cincinnati Bengals mascot

Who is Who Dey?

200

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?

200

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)?

200

The range of analyte concentrations that a method can directly measure without any dilution, concentration, or other pretreatment.

What is Analytical Measurement Range (AMR)?

200

Immature red blood cells containing residual RNA

What are reticulocytes?

200

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?

200

The "Hits King" Pete Rose's hit record.

What is 4,256?

300

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.

What is Scopio?

300

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?

300

The most common method used in the clinical lab to measure electrolytes

What are Ion Selective Electrodes (ISEs)?

300

Beckman Coulter's proprietary hematological marker that serves as an early sepsis indicator in Emergency Room patients

What is Monocyte Distribution Width?

300

DxH, DxC, DxI, DxA... Dx in our nomenclature stands for this.

Diagnostics Excellence

300

Cincinnati's minor league hockey team

Who are the Cyclones?

400

In Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), it is an alternative to Serum Creatinine for estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)

What is Cystatin C?

400

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?

400

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?

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

Location of the Beckman Coulter's global headquarters

Where is Brea, California?

400

German inspired dish that is made from ground meat and oats.

What is goetta?

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A proprietary calculation developed by Beckman Coulter that uses a combination of three blood tests 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 (PHI)?
500

These two pathologists were the pioneers of using statistics for the standardization and calibration of analytical procedures.

Who are Levey and Jennings?

500

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?

500

This cell synthesizes immunoglobulins

What is a plasma cell?
500

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?

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"And this one belongs to the Reds!" was this person's catchphrase

Who is Marty Brennaman?