Sample Recovery - Beckman Coulter Avanti J Series Instructions For Use Manual

Tubes, Bottles, and Accessories

Sample Recovery

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Sandwich the tubing between the blood bag and any transfer packs.
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Make sure the loaded blood bag cups opposite each other on the rotor yoke are approximately
the same weight (within 1 gram).
(Balancing pads can be used with some rotors, if necessary, to maintain weight balance.)
Load blood bag cups into the rotor buckets. To reduce the possibility of bag breakage, align the
blood bag seam with the rotor pivot pins with the label facing out (away from the axis of rotation).
Sample Recovery
CAUTION
If disassembly reveals evidence of leakage, you should assume that some fluid
escaped the container or rotor. Apply appropriate decontamination procedures to
the centrifuge, rotor, and accessories.
You can recover labware from most J series rotors while the rotor or yoke remains in the centrifuge.
• Rotor buckets or carriers can be removed from the rotor yoke, then unloaded on a lab bench or
table or under a protective hood. Blood bags must always be removed from blood bag cups
outside of the centrifuge.
• You can remove the lid from most fixed-angle rotors and extract the tubes or bottles using a
removal tool (specified in the applicable rotor manual).
NOTE Vertical-tube rotors cannot be unloaded inside the centrifuge. The rotor must be removed
from the centrifuge and placed in a rotor vise to loosen the tube cavity plugs.
Sample recovery depends on the type of labware used, the component(s) isolated, and the analysis
desired. The Beckman Universal Fraction Recovery System (343890) can be useful when recovering
sample from tubes (see publication L5-TB-081).
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Sandwich Coiled
Tubing between
Transfer Bags
and Filled
Blood Bag
Blood Bag Cup
Ports
Blood
Bag
Seam
Blood
Bag
Label
PN JR-IM-10AG