CUBE 30 TOUCH | USER MANUAL
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Intended purpose
The CUBE 30 TOUCH is an automated instrument for the quantitative Erythrocyte
Sedimentation Rate (ESR) determination with the modified Westergren method using
venous whole blood anticoagulated with K2EDTA or K3EDTA.
ESR is a non-specific parameter of an inflammatory status, used as an aid for the
monitoring of the physiological or pathological state of the patient.
The instrument is to be used only by professional laboratory users.
1.2 Presentation of the instrument
The CUBE 30 TOUCH (Figure 1) is an instrument designed to measure the erythrocyte
sedimentation rate (ESR) of blood samples anticoagulated with EDTA, directly from the
EDTA tube in only 20 minutes, modify Westergren method (Ref.13) The instrument can
analyze a load of 30 samples at once or on a random access and continual loading basis.
By analysing the sample directly from the EDTA blood collection tube, multiple samples
or sample transfers are not necessary. With its color touch screen, the user can select
various instrument functions, which are described in more detail in the following
sections. The analysis is fully automated (mixing and reading) and the results provide
excellent correlation to the one-hour Westergren reference method (Ref. 1-10).
The maximum system capacity is 60 results per hour.
Figure 1 - CUBE 30 TOUCH
The instrument is designed to have temperature correction always enabled; it relates
the results to a temperature of 18°C according to Manley’s Nomogram (Figure 2).
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