TEST SPECIFICATIONS
Ensure reliability
- Benefit from easy system maintenance with no pinch valves, 80% less tubing than legacy systems require and minimal operator intervention
- Experience the same reliable specimen transport and sample aspiration technologies as is designed into the DxH 900
- Obtain a quick overview of operating status, and stain, supply, sample or consumable information at a glance with the Snapshot Screen
Increase workflow efficiency
- Slides can be created based on rules from the DxH, middleware or LIS
- Make stain smears easily from:
- Capped whole blood sample tubes (via automatic cassette or single-tube mode)
- Open-top tubes (single-tube mode)
- Pediatric whole blood sample tubes (via automatic cassette or single-tube mode)
- Select from options, including: smear only, or smear and stain, or stain manually made slides
- Make up to four slides with a small sample volume of 90 μL and up to 12 slides from a single presentation
- Conveniently load up to 144 slides
Apply intuitive software for efficient results
- Track workload and identify slide locations in real time with intelligent basket management software that allows planning for urgent slide reviews
- Eliminate almost any type of sample barcode label misreads with 2D barcode-scanning technology
- Customizable print barcodes and other information directly onto slides, allowing easy sample tracking and reducing misidentification through thermal printing technology
Achieve excellent smear quality every time
- Use proprietary Hemasphere technology to capture the relevant measure of blood adherence to aspiration tubing, with a more reliable and consistent smear, regardless of the blood consistency
- Customized motion profile accommodates your laboratory’s preferences in smear length or shape
- Edge of a new slide is used to make the smear, based on user-selectable criteria
- The Sample Aspiration Module and sample delivery system virtually eliminate any type of slide-to-slide or sample-to-sample carryover
Slidemaking and Staining Options
- Smear only, smear and stain, stain only
Throughput
- Prepares up to 140 slides per hour
Aspiration Volumes
- Open/Closed/Pediatric Vial: 90 μL (up to 4 slides)
Sample-loading Capacity
- Continuous loading of up to 100 tubes in 20×5 tube cassettes
Stains and Buffers
- TruColor Wright Stain and TruColor Wright Buffer
- TruColor Wright-Giemsa Stain and TruColor Wright-Giemsa Buffer
- Open system—Software enables user to validate other stains
Technology
- Proprietary Hemasphere technology characterises blood for optimal slide quality (no reliance on CBC parameters to make smears)
Sample Identification
- Applied directly to the slide using thermal transfer technology
Power Requirements
- Standalone system (with SFF computer): 576 W
- Input: 100–240 VAC and 48–62 Hz