Hologic ThinPrep 5000, Operator'S Manual

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ThinPrep™ 5000 Processor with AutoLoader Operator’s Manual
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When a slide cassette is placed into the instrument, the system assumes it is “full” until it checks for
the presence of slides in the cassette, which it does when first attempting to retrieve slides from the
cassette. The status is “partial” if the cassette is not filled to the top or after the system has used slides
out of a cassette. The status is “empty” when the cassette has no slides left. If a slide cassette is not
present, the status is “no cassette.”
Touch the button for each cassette bay to display the selection of slide types. Select the exact type by
touching the name on the screen. The button label for that cassette will change to reflect the selection.
The types of microscope slides are:
• Gyn - ThinPrep microscope slides for gynecologic cytology
• Imager - slides for use on the ThinPrep Imaging System (gynecologic sample); they bear
fiducial marks required by the Imager
•
Non-Gyn
- microscope slides for general cytology
• UroCyte - microscope slides for use in conjunction with the Vysis
®
UroVysion assay
When a cassette is empty, the system will draw off of the next cassette that has the same type of slides
in it. If no other cassette has the same type of slides, then the user is notified that there are no slides
available.
Important:
The system can sense whether slides are in a cassette or not, but it cannot sense
what type of slide it is. The system only knows what slide type was set previously. The user must
always select the slide type.