Thanks for the suggestions..... Greiner tubes are validated by Beckman for use on the analyzer. The level sensor is turned on.... has been replaced.... it has been ok'd that it is working correctly.  We had beckman come in to see how we were loading samples.... our reserved and non-reserved racks are being used correctly.  If you ...

Hi All- We have a Beckman DXC600i and use greiner blood collection tubes.  A few months ago we noticed that both our MC and CC DX sample probes are getting coated with gel from the SST tubes and are actually sticky to the touch.  The gel also gets stuck inside out probes and sometimes affects the results... especially glucose.  We ...

I was just wondering... What kind of EDTA tubes do you use at your sites for hematology.... K2 or K3 EDTA?

Hi- We are not currently using the lithium heparin gel tubes but we do use the greiner SST tubes.  We are having lots of trouble using these tubes on our chemistry analyzers primarily with glucose.  We find that these tubes don't spin down very well and the gel barrier isn't always uniform and we are following the ...