BD BACTEC™ FX Instrument User’s Manual
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location synonym for station
manually entered
vial
vial whose sequence number was entered using the onscreen keyboard
medium, media
culture vial for use in the BD BACTEC FX instrument; current media types
include:
Type
Code Abbreviation shown on reports
Aerobic Plus 92 Aer Plus
Anaerobic Plus 93 Ana Plus
Anaerobic Lytic 65 Ana Lytic
Myco Lytic 88 Myco Lytic
Mycosis/IC 06 Mycosis I/C
Peds Plus 94 Peds Plus
Platelet Aerobic 5A Aer Plt
Platelet Anaerobic 5B Ana Plt
Standard Aerobic 60 Std Aer
Standard Anaerobic 91 Std Ana
message,
message box
message that is displayed on the screen that provides information to the user
(compare to system alert)
Negative,
Negative vial
vial that has reached the end of its protocol without triggering any positivity
algorithm
offline
not communicating (e.g. if a drawer is offline, it is not communicating with the
main instrument application; if LIS is offline, it is not communicating with the
instrument)
Ongoing vial vial still within its protocol that has not yet tripped any positivity algorithms
orphan
orphan vial: a vial that has no accession;
orphan accession: an accession that has no patient data
orphan demographics: patient/specimen data where the associated vial has not
been placed in the instrument
orphan
demographics
demographic data that exists in the database without being associated to a vial
Orphan vial vial that exists in the database with no associated accession number
out of protocol a final Negative vial; however, if left in instrument, vial testing continues
patient id field that allows up to 16 characters to uniquely identify a patient
patient name field that allows up to 40 characters that represents the patient's name
peek window
20-minute window where a removed vial must be reentered in order to retain its
status and readings
pending vial
vial that exists in the database with no Start of Protocol; such vials have never
been placed in the instrument
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