Well for the past week, i was assigned to do shift work.
i had to work from 10am till 7pm. the slot was either for Haematology section or CP.
CP stands for Corporates and Poly section.
For haematology, the workflow remain the same. i will just have to assist the medtech that is posted there and cover the section from 5pm-7pm or until the next shift staffs are in.
However i was new to CP section. So i was asked to observe the workflow first.
The specimens from the polys will arrived at the lab around 10.30am. That will be the first batch of specimens. In total, 3 batches of specimens are send to the lab within the expected timings. Upon receiving the specimens, the poly clerk will have to check the specimen sent, wether it matches will the ones indicated in the forms. Once checked, the clerk will have to 'ech' the specimen into our system. If 'ech' is not done, the specimen cannot be run as the the machines will not be able to recognise them. After which the poly medtech will take over. He/ She will then have to process the specimen according to the test requested.
Usually the bloods are sent in plain tubes and fluoride tubes.
For plain tubes, we can load it into MPA ( a machine in chemistry) directly. For fluoride tubes however, we have to spin them using centrifuge before loading them into either SWA or COBAS for processing.
The tubes are then archive into a special rack for easy indentification.
After the processing of the first batch is done, we have to check for any test that are not run. We do so by checking the incomplete log. In this system, we can check for any outstanding test that are not yet done.
If there is indeed any test that are not run, we have to find the specimen and run it.
That's for poly specimens.
For corporate specimens, the workflow remains the same. The only difference is that the specimen are not 'ech' into our system but are ordered as corporate screening specimen. What we do here is, we ordered the tests that are required like how we do order entry but the location for the test are change into their respective companies.
The workflow henceforth are similar to the polys.
After all the specimens are received and processed, we have to check the incomplte log again in case we missed out any test. If everything is smooth sailing then we can print the corporates results which are then reported back to the companies.
So that's basically the roles of a CP medtech.
till then...
sutiana
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3 comments:
Hi,
What do you mean by 'ech'? I am new to that term. So you mean like enter?
And what is the prinicple behind centrifuging the fluroide tubes before loading into the machines?
Thanks.
Xin Yi
TG02
Hi,
May i know what the corporates and poly section does and what kind of tests it perform? Cos this is the first time i'm seeing machine names such as MPA, SWA and COBAS.
And why does fluoride tubes require centrifugation but plain tubes does not?
Ka Hang
TG02
to Ka Hang:
basically the tests that are requested are similar to those that are ordered in-house. The different between poly and corporate samples is that the poly samples are already ordered at their side. when they send it to us, we have to acknowledge them by doing the ECH of those samples. For corporate, we will receive the samples as well as the request forms. We will still need to order them into our system, exactly how we order the in-house tests.
Both the plain tubes and fluoride tubes need to be centrifuge.The plain tube are loaded into the MPA which has the centrifuge part integrated into the machine. But for fluoride tubes, we can load in MPA because the result would not be transmitted into our system. This has got to do with our system management. Therefore the fluoride tubes are span using the centrifuge machine itself before loading into the SWA or COBAS machine.
to Xin Yi:
ECH is a term we use when we acknowledge the samples send to our lab from the polyclinics. We do this by 'ech' them or entering them into our system.
for this question, i have explain the ans in the reply to Ka Hang.
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