Medonic CA530, User Manual

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13 Maintenance, Shut-Down & Transport
13.1 Daily Maintenance
The instrument has most of its cleaning procedures automated. This means that
the user maintenance is kept to an absolute minimum.
Daily user maintenance is therefore limited to a cleaning procedure only on the
outside of the instrument.
1. Clean the outside of the aspiration pipette with a pure alcohol solution. This
removes possible traces of proteins, bacteria or viruses and increases the ef-
fectiveness of the pipette auto-cleaning procedure.
2. Remove possible traces of salt crystals or blood with a disinfecting solution.
13.2 Monthly Maintenance
The monthly cleaning procedure has the purpose of securing the correct func-
tioning of the instrument.
1. Switch off the instrument by pulling out the mains cord from the mains sup-
ply.
2. Open the front 'door' of the analyzer and inspect the instrument for any
trace of salt crystals around aspiration pipette or other directly visible parts.
3. Remove any salt crystal with ONLY distilled water and dry carefully after-
wards.
4. Clean the outside cover with a soft detergent.
5. Close the front door and switch on the instrument.
6. Fill a cup with 10 ml 3-5% hypochlorite (bleach), certified by Boule, and en-
ter this as a sample at the pre dilute inlet.
7. Run 2 blank samples of 10ml diluent at the pre-dilute inlet.
Report any unusual salt crystal built-up to your authorized dealer.
13.3 Three (3) Month Maintenance
To increase the life time of the tubes in the instrument, the following cleaning
procedure is strongly recommended.
1. Put both reagent probes in a bottle with “Enzymatic Cleaner”, authorized
by Boule.
2. Execute Menu 8. 2 (Fill system).
3. Wait ca. 30 minutes.
4. Remove the reagent probes from the “Enzymatic cleaner” and start menu
8.3 (Empty system).
5. Put both probes back in the original reagents and perform menu 8.2 (Fill
system).
Warning
Contamination hazard if
contaminated blood enters
into open cut.
Always wear protective
gloves when handling
blood samples or parts of
the instrument that might
be contaminated with
blood.
Caution
Do not disconnect the in-
strument from the mains-
supply as the analyzer per-
forms automatic self-
check cycles every 4th
hour to prevent clogging
and bacterial growth in the
system. Please call your au-
thorised distributor in case
the instrument has to be
powered off during a peri-
od longer than 4 days.
Not doing so might lead to
bacterial growth or block-
ages in the system.
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