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To Prepare Advanced Control Fluid
1. If the Advanced Control has been frozen, allow it to thaw for 30 minutes prior to use.
2. Invert the Advanced Control vial at least 5 times.
3. Transfer the contents of the Advanced Control vial to a Catalyst* sample cup.
4. Run quality control on the analyzer.
To Prepare PHBR Control Fluid
1. Take one vial of PHBR Control out of the freezer and allow it to reach room temperature
(approximately 60 minutes).
2. Once you have confirmed that there is no visible frozen material in the vial, gently invert it
6–10 times to mix thoroughly.
3. Transfer 300 µL of PHBR Control into a Catalyst* sample cup.
Note: You will need one PHBR slide wash and one PHBR slide for the quality control
procedure.
4. Run quality control on the analyzer.
Running Quality Control
To Run General Quality Control on the Catalyst One analyzer
1. Tap the Catalyst One icon on the IDEXX VetLab Station Home screen.
2. Tap Maintenance and then tap Quality Control.
3. Tap the quality control lot number you are using and then tap Run QC.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions for preparing and running quality control.
Notes:
• To view QC results at any time, tap Maintenance, tap Quality Control, tap View QC
Results, select the desired date that QC was run, and then tap View Results.
• To view the expected ranges for each chemistry in a QC lot, tap Maintenance, tap Quality
Control, select the desired QC lot, and then tap View QC Lot Information.
Quality Control