A global clinical laboratory equipment and reagents dealer, Block Scientific is committed to helping clinical laboratories of all sizes improve their productivity and workflow. We provide quality, new as well as refurbished lab equipment that meet manufacturer's specifications. Our blog session helps anyone in the healthcare profession to stay up to date with the latest news and updates in the clinical laboratory industry.
With the year 2017 coming to an end, it is time for us to review the top blogs we posted this year.
Alere Cholestech LDX® Analyzer for Point-of-Care Lipid Testing
The CLIA waived Cholestech LDX® from Alere is a small, portable analyzer that offers rapid, accurate results in just 5 minutes. Faster results help to provide immediate awareness and identification of cardiovascular and diabetes health. Unique safeguards, automated checks and calibrations help ensure analyzer integrity and accurate results and eliminate user error. Fingerstick sampling and small sample size (40μL) makes results less painful and time consuming, and easy to obtain.
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Enhance Your In-house Test Capability with ADVIA Centaur® CP
A surprisingly powerful and fast mid-sized immunoassay system, ADVIA Centaur® CP allows your lab to provide excellent patient care by bringing a wide range of immunoassays onto a single workstation. The system raises the level of productivity and increases the efficiency of operations within your lab with features such as 400-test walk-away capacity, programmable automatic dilutions, repeats and reflex testing and ready-to-use, bar-coded reagents.
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Abbott i-STAT 1 Handheld - for Faster Patient Care
This easy-to-use i-STAT 1 handheld point-of-care analyzer from Abbott will provide lab-quality results in just minutes rather than hours. The unit's Single-use i-STAT test cartridges cover a large menu of commonly used tests in one platform. Documentation and testing can also be completed simultaneously with STAT Notes, thus streamlining workflow while reducing paperwork and clerical errors.
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Meet Diverse Needs of Small Laboratories with Medica EasyRA
Medica EasyRA is a fully automated clinical chemistry analyzer, with which technicians can analyze stat samples in less than 8 minutes. While its unique, slide-out drawer makes maintenance quick and easy, the unit's RFID technology eliminates the need to manually program reagents. This analyzer also offers both drugs of abuse urine screening (DAU) and chemistry panels in a benchtop system.
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A dedicated supplier of quality laboratory equipment, Block Scientific will continue to provide such informative blogs to all our healthcare clients worldwide to support their laboratory testing goals.