Transfusion Instruments
The acceptable temperature range for reagents in use on the Echo Lumena and NEO Iris.
What is 18-30 C?
This advanced level competency product provides 3 CEUs and is shipped quarterly.
What is RISE?
The base units of mass measured in chemistry
What are grams
This U.S. agency regulates blood products and medical devices.
What is the FDA?
This scientist discovered penicillin in 1928
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The NEO Iris can hold up to this many samples onboard.
What is 224
This product uses monoclonal IgM Anti-D antibodies for improved performance in the detection of D+ cells in D- mothers.
What is FMH RapidScreen?
This is the only mammal capable of sustained flight.
What are bats?
What agency establishes mandatory safety standards—requiring Chemical Hygiene Plans, exposure limits, safe work practices, and training to protect laboratory workers from chemical, biological, physical, and radiological hazards.
What is OSHA?
This Austrian scientist won the 1930 Nobel Prize for discovering the ABO blood group system.
Who is Karl Landsteiner?
This assay, used for donor screening, is available on NEO Iris but not on Echo Lumena.
What is CMV
By not using patient red cells, this product eliminates the need for large quantities of patient red cells for autoadsorption.
What is a RESt?
This country has won the most FIFA World Cups.
What is Brazil?
According to CLIA, a positive and negative control should be performed how frequently for a given reagent/assay?
What is each day of use?
Along with Francis Crick, this scientist helped determine the structure of DNA using X-ray crystallography data.
Who is James Watson?
When the NEO Iris algorithm cannot clearly classify a reaction, it places it in this range.
What is Equivocal
This product leaves the antigen sites intact after treatment so valid typing can occur
What is EGA?
This African country is the only nation in the world whose capital city, Addis Ababa, sits at an elevation of over 7,500 feet above sea level.
What is Ethipopia?
Known as HIPAA, this is a U.S. federal law that protects patient health information and ensures privacy and security in healthcare
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
This scientist's work on the genetics of blood groups led to the understanding that the Rh system is one of the most complex blood group systems, now containing more than 50 antigens and has a naming convention partially named after him.
Who is Ronald Fisher?
These automated NEO Iris assays helped expand low-titer whole blood production through automated serial dilutions.
What is ABO Titers?
This product is a single vial of pooled red cells that can be used for control cells for typing reagents.
What is Hemantigen?
Before Billie Eilish achieved the feat in 2020, this singer-songwriter was the first artist to win all four major Grammy categories—Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist—in a single year.
Who is Christopher Cross?
According to CMS, how often within the first year of employment for moderate and high complexity testing should competency assessment be performed?
What is twice?
Discovered in 1946 by Coombs, Mourant, and Race, this blood group system's antibody is frequently implicated in severe hemolytic transfusion reactions and HDFN.
What is the Kell Blood Group System?