Section 8: Cleaning, Maintenance & Transport
Section Overview
This section contains information that is crucial for maintaining, transporting
and storing the Medonic M-Series.
This section contains the following topics.
Re-location of instrument (within the laboratory)
Short Term Shutdown (<12h)
Re-packaging and Long Term Transport
Permanent Shut-Down and Storage
The majority of the instruments cleaning procedures are automated to keep the
user maintenance to an absolute minimum.
Always use gloves when in contact with potentially biohazardous materials or
parts of the instrument that might be contaminated with blood.
The Daily Cleaning takes only a few minutes, the instructions are as follows:
Clean the aspiration and pre-dilute probes using an alcohol wipe.
Remove possible traces of salt crystals or blood at the top of the
aspiration and pre-dilute probes, probe rinse cup, and around top of
sampling device probe inlet (if applicable) using a paper tissue with
a disinfecting solution.