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Hi, I'm Diane Washbourne,

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Clinical Specialist of Hematology
for Sentara Health Care.

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I'm a medical technologist
with my specialty

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in hematology.

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Sentara started using the Alifax
analyzers in 2017.

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During our installation, application
specialist came in and taught

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key operators.

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The key operators then taught the staff.

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There was less than a half hour
training session

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because the analyzer is very user
friendly, intuitive.

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We just have not had any issues
with training.

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To do the correlation
with the manual method.

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It's a semi quantitative test
and the understanding

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that it's a different methodology.

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The manual method
you're actually measuring the settling

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of the red cells with the automated,
you're measuring with the rate

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rouleaux is being formed,
so it's not as 1 to 1.

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What I did get was negative was negative,
positive was positive.

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Some of the positives 60 60
So some of the positives

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manual method would be 60,
the automated method would be 82.

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So it was a little outside

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the the norm
if you were correlating creatinine

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or hemoglobin, you wouldn't
want to see that kind of difference.

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But because it was semi quantitative
and a totally different method

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and I was getting abnormal
to abnormal and normal to normal,

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I felt that it was acceptable correlation

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for the methodology.

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The top three reasons I chose Alifax

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for the Sed rate analyzer at Sentara.

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Number one was
it was automated it barcode the samples.

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The second reason was it was interfaced.

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There was no more transcribing of results

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and manually entering them into the LIS.

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The third reason was safety
for my technologist.

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They were now not opening a tube
and having to possibly have an exposure.

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Results in 20 seconds

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independent of the patient's
hematocrit.

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They're no dilutions.

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You have a direct EDTA tube
sampling, temperature controlled.

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No vibration or vertical alignment errors.

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Automated mixing, 

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latex controls and calibrators
are extremely stable with very low CVs,

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high reproducibility.

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And it's a walk away.

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The Techs were so pleased
with the introduction of this technology

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and the difference it made in their
workflow and with the quality of results.

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I would highly recommend this analyzer

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to other laboratories.