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82 ADVIA 1800 Operator’s Guide
Loading patient samples
Loading patient samples on the STT
BIOHAZARD
LASER WARNING
Wear personal protective equipment.
Use universal precautions. Do not stare into the beam.
BIOHAZARD
Follow your laboratory standards and local environmental rules and regulations to
avoid risk of infections when disposing of biohazardous materials, such as samples
or analyzer parts that come in contact with medical waste.
NOTE:
Before starting a run, you must load control and calibrator samples on the onboard
sampler.
1. Remove the sample tray evaporation cover.
2. Remove any completed samples and dispose of them in accordance with laboratory
procedure.
3. Load samples while the sample tray is in the sampler, or remove the tray.
To remove the sample tray, release the safety latches at position numbers 49 and 70, then
grasp the sample tray by its handles and lift it out of the sampler well.
4. Loading the samples.
a. When using barcode labels:
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Clean and properly position barcode labels on the sample tube.
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Make labels face outward and visible through the slot in the sample-tube
holder.
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Labels on tubes loaded in the inner ring (positions 43 through 84) must be
visible between the sample-tube holders in the outside ring.
b. When not using barcode labels, you must load each sample into the sample
position number entered on the workorder.
c. Load sample cups into a plastic adapter.
This adapter can hold two cup sizes. If the cup does not fit, remove the adapter
and try the other end.
d. Using barcode labels with a sample cup, insert the sample cup into a sample tube
that has the correct label.
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You can use Ezee Nest cups in primary sample tubes.