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8.5 FLAGS
MYTHIC 22 manages 25 different flags. These flags allow the user to be alerted if there is a problem
which can affect the quality of the results. All of these flags appear on the right of the result.
In presence of one or more flags it is recommended to check the result
measure or on blood smear.
NOTA: Most of these flags can be modified by the user (see section 3).
8.5.1 General Flags
The following alarms are common for all parameters.
XXX *: Counting or measure rejection. It can appear with WBC, RBC, PLT and HGB (see section 8.5.4 for
HGB and section 8.5.3 for DIF parameters).
XXXD: Higher than linearity limits but lower than the reportable limits. WBC, RBC, PLT, HCT, HGB.
XXXS: Appears only with the PLT result. It means that the result is suspect and must be rerun.
If the S flag remain, the PLT and RBC must be checked on smear.
+++D: Higher than the reportable limits. WBC, RBC, PLT, HCT, HGB.
----: Rejected value.
h: results higher than normal value.
b: results lower than normal value.
H: results higher than panic value.
B: results lower than panic value.
8.5.2 Instrument Flags
W_CL: Suspicion of WBC aperture clog, if it persists runs a concentrated cleaning (see section 9.1.2).
R_CL: Suspicion of RBC aperture clog, if it persists runs a concentrated cleaning (see section 9.1.2).
O_CL: Suspicion of Optical injector clog, if it persists runs a concentrated cleaning (see section 9.1.2).
OPT- : Counting gap between resistive and optical WBC count, if it persists run a concentrated cleaning (see
section 9.1.2).
INS-H: HGB channel saturation, run a START UP cycle.
INS-T: A temperature (enclosure, reagents or ambient) is out of range (see section 9.5.2) .
INS-P: Pressure default (see section 9.5.2).
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