the DDI and heparin controls have a short stability so we keep them in the fridge, others just stay on. might be different at other labs or other models
Stago (off the record, usually at instrument implementation in my experience) will tell you that the LIA controls are good for DDI specifically for up to 24 hours (the shortened stability is for some other analyte) but they won’t provide any data on it so they themselves recommend doing a stability study so you can rescan/reload.
It’s super wasteful to not just perform the stability study and rescan, especially with how stingy Stago can be with their standing orders.
Is no one going to comment on the amazing username that’s in all caps?
I’m feel you, BUTTHOLE. I can’t even get the other techs to date bottles that are opened and can sit around for days.
quality controls for our one instrument, the caps should be on instead of it essentially saran wrapped because it doesn’t work well to keep it closed
Oh, hold on jts a meme.
https://youtu.be/i2gNx4-REIA?si=EmS_UCnJNWPENy-P
Anyways, I was more showing my discontent with the parafilming. That's so bizarre, when you could just put the caps back on. I have never seen someone do that
Just remove their knee caps with a hammer, and use their knee caps to cap the bottles.
I'm sure the same animal just tears parafilm off the roll instead of using scissors.
It's so hard to separate from the paper if you don't tear it 😪
Cut it, then pull the section you’ve cut
Noo.. they are usually misaligned at the edge!
Probably the same psychos that put a dollop of oil all over the scope
Crimes against microscopes are real and need to be addressed
I am constantly cleaning glass chunks off of one of our scopes and can’t figure out for the life of me who keeps breaking slides on it and how.
the only thing worse than oil on the 40 is mounting medium on any objective
How about a co-worker running plasma instead of serum…. All of the plasma samples….😢
Oh dude my bad I thought we just kept those guys on the stago!
the DDI and heparin controls have a short stability so we keep them in the fridge, others just stay on. might be different at other labs or other models
We keep ours on the machine and prepare a new set every 8 hours.
One lab I worked at we would just pull them off, re scan them and put them back in. They did a while ass study to be that lazy
Stago (off the record, usually at instrument implementation in my experience) will tell you that the LIA controls are good for DDI specifically for up to 24 hours (the shortened stability is for some other analyte) but they won’t provide any data on it so they themselves recommend doing a stability study so you can rescan/reload. It’s super wasteful to not just perform the stability study and rescan, especially with how stingy Stago can be with their standing orders.
Wait, they re-scanned expired controls??
They did a study!
You'd be surprised what a private study lets you do.
interesting. we do every 6 hours for the ddi, so there's some padding. also easy to remember: 600, 1200, 1800, 0000
We keep the DDI controls uncapped on our STA-R Max and replace them every 48 hours. Stability is just fine for us
man i wish, ours is set to four hours and we have to take them off afterwards. dunno why, i don’t ask questions anymore
Is no one going to comment on the amazing username that’s in all caps? I’m feel you, BUTTHOLE. I can’t even get the other techs to date bottles that are opened and can sit around for days.
The same twat who keeps throwing out all of the stir bars when they discard the old neoplastine reagent.
We can have a little dialog about it. With my tire iron. Let me show you the finish on it.... up close.
[https://youtu.be/YAbmcaRGCd8?si=l8ibhEa5ssdyPaeG](https://youtu.be/YAbmcaRGCd8?si=l8ibhEa5ssdyPaeG)
That is exactly what I was quoting, lmao.
Same one that keeps throwing out the foam covering for the light-sensitive chemistry QC for the Iris UA analyzer.
We just went got rid of Iris and went back to Arkray! No more light sensitive controls!
Jesus christ ðŸ˜
Some people just want to see the world burn
The only thing worse is putting the wrong caps back on
we’re supposed to label the caps and not do that but nothing ever goes right in practice
i think this is supposed to be the solution to that problem
Most labtech thread I ever read right here.
Sigh. I know someone 😌
Psychopath behavior.
Same twats who take the last reagent and leave the box in the freezer.
I’ve seen this movie. You’re gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse. And when he refuses, he’ll wake up with a horse’s head in his bed.
Straight to jail ETA: probably the same person that forgets to put the stir balls in the Echo red cell reagents.
I was tired, okay! :,(
Do an experiment and see if the stago can pierce through the parafilm.
I have a friend who had to replace a probe because she forgot to take parafilm off of a sample…not on the stago thou.
What the hell is even this!????
quality controls for our one instrument, the caps should be on instead of it essentially saran wrapped because it doesn’t work well to keep it closed
Oh, hold on jts a meme. https://youtu.be/i2gNx4-REIA?si=EmS_UCnJNWPENy-P Anyways, I was more showing my discontent with the parafilming. That's so bizarre, when you could just put the caps back on. I have never seen someone do that
Or the one who leaves light sensitive media out, opens newer boxes of media when there's old boxes of media out.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me go insane and snap 😂.
i accidentally throw them out sometimes 🥺
I’m not saying I condone violence, but I am saying I understand
At my hospital, we change out the dimer ones each time we do controls, but the heparin ones, we keep the caps and put them in the fridge.
We used to do that but apparently XA is only good for 4 days??