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Hospital Service field to identify the service or ward from which the specimen was collected
in protocol a vial that is within its defined testing protocol (between Start and End of
Protocol); an Ongoing vial
Isolation mode operating mode when the instrument cannot communicate with the tablet PC;
indicated by pulsing amber system indicator on door
Isolation Recovery
mode
operating mode when the instrument and tablet PC are transitioning from
Isolation mode to Directed mode
LIS Laboratory Information System
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™ FX40 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
Standard Aerobic 60 Std Aer
Standard Anaerobic 91 Std Ana
Platelet Aerobic 5A Plat Aer
Platelet Anaerobic 5B Plat 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 rack 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