RADIOMETER ABL800 FLEX Operator's Manual page 90

3. Installation and setup
Analysis setup,
Batch mode If the above requirements are fulfilled, activate the check button in the "FLEXQ"
(automatic box. This box is not available for the analyzers without the FLEXQ module.
sample
If a live RADIANCE connection is detected, the analyzer will automatically set the
handling)
connect option when activating the Enable batch mode button.
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Patient To select the information in the second column on the Ready screen, use the
identification on up/down arrow buttons in the "FLEXQ" box.
the Ready
screen
The choices are: Patient Last Name, Accession No. or Sampler ID.
Sample age Sample age is the time within which the sample should be analyzed. It can be
defined for each measured parameter individually or for all parameters.
Patient Report Layout (described further in this chapter) offers the following time
registration items in the Patient ID:
• "Draw time", i.e. when the sample was obtained from the patient; is entered
• "Sample registration", i.e. when the sample was registered by the analyzer; is
• "Time before FLEXQ", i.e. sample transport time to the analyzer; is obtained
• "Time in the FLEXQ", i.e. waiting time; is automatically registrered by the
•
The sample age is calculated, using the following:
Manual measurement
FLEXQ measurement
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by the operator on the Patient Identification screen on the analyzer or
obtained from the RADIANCE system.
automatically registrered by the analyzer.
if the "Draw time" has been entered; is automatically registrered by the
analyzer.
analyzer.
Max. sample age (is entered on the RADIANCE system). This setting, if
used, will overrule the settings selected on the analyzer.
"Sample age " = "Sample registration" – "Draw time".
Sample age = 0 if "Draw time" is not entered.
"Sample age" = "Time before FLEXQ" + "Time in
FLEXQ" where:
"Time before FLEXQ" = "Sample registration" –
"Draw time";
Time in FLEXQ" = "Time the sample aspiration
begins" – "Sample registration"
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