Open AccessComparison of a column agglutination technology-based automated immunohematology analyzer and a semiautomated system in pretransfusion testing
Author(s) -
Ravi C Dara,
Aseem Kumar Tiwari,
Subhasis Mitra,
Deviprasad Acharya,
Geet Aggarwal,
Dinesh Arora,
Gunjan Bhardwaj
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
asian journal of transfusion science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.262
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1998-3565
pISSN - 0973-6247
DOI - 10.4103/ajts.ajts_116_17
Subject(s) - medicine , spectrum analyzer , agglutination (biology) , immunology , antibody , computer science , telecommunications
Semi-automated equipment using Column agglutination technology (CAT) is widely used where centrifugation and incubation are automated but substantial amount of the work is still executed manually. Larger laboratories are moving towards automation to eliminate errors, reducing exposure to bio-hazardous samples, assuring traceability, reliability, turnaround time (TAT) and throughput. Moving towards automation and greater reliability, we therefore, decided to install an automated immunohematological (IH) analyzer "Vision". In this study we evaluated reliability and performance before clearing "Vision" for routine use.