Synergy pathology lab upgrade#
Synergy pathology lab professional#

With a robust differential, the ABX Pentra 120 Retic analysers are performing well for the laboratory even with aged samples up to 72 hours old.

Patient samples are received by post and are therefore at least 24 hours old when they are processed. This requires results to be available the same day they are processed in order to enable dosing decisions to be made by physicians. As part of their analytical services, the lab at SHLS provides haematology testing for occupational health and environmental screening as well as supporting the safety monitoring of patients for pharmaceutical companies. The new ABX Pentra 120 Retics's allow for increased throughput capacity to achieve an even quicker turnaround time. Having had HORIBA Medical analysers in our lab for a number of years, we knew we could trust the company to find a suitable solution, with technology and instruments we already know work well.'

Synergy pathology lab upgrade#

'However, they could not cope with our increased workload and we needed to upgrade to gain the speed and throughput necessary. 'Our ABX Pentra 80 analysers were ideal when we were managing 500 samples a week', explains Andy Walker, National Laboratory Services Manager, Synergy Health. Installed 6 weeks ago, the ABX Pentra 120 Retic's replace 3 existing ABX Pentra 80 analysers. With the new ABX Pentra 120 Retic's in situ, the laboratory at SHLS is able to happily process up to 3,000 samples a week with the spare capacity to expand and take on more! As a specialist provider of outsourced healthcare services covering a range of routine haematology, microbiology, virology and toxicology analytical services, SHLS has seen its workload increase significantly over the past 4 years and identified a need for haematology analysers that could handle peak workloads of up to 1,300 samples a day. This approach in synergy with the pathologist and toxicologist dialogue can help the medical examiner to avoid mistakes and positively infer the whole diagnostic process.HORIBA Medical has recently upgraded the haematology analysers at the pathology lab of Synergy Health Laboratory Services (SHLS) in Abergavenny, Wales to 3 larger ABX Pentra 120 Retic systems. The most complete and proper tissue sampling from autopsy is mandatory for the whole diagnostic process.

Synergy pathology lab professional#

In our experience the only way to avoid, or limit, mistakes is to follow strictly a Search Strategy, which combines single professional experience, circumstantial data and a correct and a punctual manner of sampling from corpses. In post mortem toxicology the medical examiner’s and the toxicologist’s role is constantly challenged by analytical, methodological, circumstantial problems, and only the single professional experience can help to find which drug is involved. In forensic toxicology the main relevant scope of toxicologist is to answer these following questions: which kind of drug is involved? Is the analytical result related to death? Which is the supposed lethal dose? Despite the technological improvement in laboratory medicine, the main questions are apparently unresolved, because the availability of new laboratory instrumentation has sometimes increased the complexity of the medical examiner task.