Section 4. Quality Assurance - HORIBA ABX Micros 60 User Manual

Section 4. Quality Assurance

Contents
1. Quality Control ............................................................................................4-2
1.1. Functions ............................................................................................... 4-2
1.2. Q.C - Automatic (With Q.C. Smart Card) ...................................................... 4-2
1.2.1. QC Smart card messages ................................................................... 4-3
1.2.2. Select Operator ............................................................................... 4-3
1.2.3. Select commercial control level .......................................................... 4-3
1.2.4. Running Control blood ...................................................................... 4-4
1.2.5. QC results ........................................................................................ 4-5
1.2.6. Accepting or Rejecting QC Results ...................................................... 4-5
1.3. Q.C. Analysis (Without Q.C. Smart Card) ..................................................... 4-7
1.4. Q.C. print targets (only with Q.C. smart card) .............................................. 4-7
1.5. Q.C. statistics (only with Q.C. smart card) ................................................... 4-8
1.6. Q.C. Graphs (Only with Q.C. smart card) ...................................................... 4-9
2. Calibration .................................................................................................4-11
2.1. General recommendations ....................................................................... 4-11
2.1.1. Preliminaries .................................................................................. 4-11
2.1.2. Calibration procedure ...................................................................... 4-11
2.2. Calibration function ............................................................................... 4-11
2.2.1. Change lot number ......................................................................... 4-12
2.2.2. Change Expiration date ................................................................... 4-12
2.2.3. Changing the target value ................................................................ 4-12
2.2.4. Change number of calibration samples ............................................. 4-12
2.2.5. Running calibrator ......................................................................... 4-13
2.2.6. Calibration Results .......................................................................... 4-13
2.2.7. Verify Calibration ........................................................................... 4-14
2.2.8. Calibration Passed ......................................................................... 4-15
2.2.9. Calibration Failed ........................................................................... 4-16
2.2.10. RDW Calibration ........................................................................... 4-17
2.2.11. RDW calibration using a Quality Control Standard .............................. 4-17
2.2.12. Calibration coefficients .................................................................. 4-18
2.2.13. Changing Calibration Coefficients ................................................... 4-18
2.2.14. Calibration Coefficient limits ........................................................ 4-19
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