Sysmex Connect – May 2021
The first CN-Series install at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London Sysmex UK are proud to announce the first installation of their next generation family of haemostasis analysers, the CN-Series at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital, in London.
At Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, their need was for a compact yet high throughput solution for their routine laboratory. Two CN-6000 analysers have been installed into St. Thomas’ Hospital as a replacement for their current two CS-2100i’s for routine haemostasis testing, with a 22% saving on footprint delivering an unrivalled 900 test per hour capability, a 250% increase in throughput. Supported by an ever-expanding number of liquid ready-to-use reagents from HYPHEN Biomed SAS, improvements to the refrigerated reagent table allows the CN-Series to provide even longer on-board stability of reagents and reduce the frequency at which reagents require replacing. “The faster turnaround times provided by the CN Series will benefit our staff and users enormously and I’m particularly looking forward to moving our platelet aggregometry assay to the fully automated CN platform.” Aine McCormick, Principal Biomedical Scientist for Viapath at St. Thomas’ Hospital
From Left to Right: Eleanor Foxton (Principal BMS), Kasia Mayger (Senior BMS), Aine McCormick (Principal BMS), Charlotte Noronha (Operations Manager), Clare Wigley (Senior BMS)
The introduction of the CN-Series to Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals as Sysmex UK’s first installation sites is made all the more special considering Sysmex’s history with this customer. From the CA-Series (with the CA-7000 and CA-1500 systems) to the CS-Series (with the CS-2000/2100i and CS-2400 systems), Sysmex UK have provided automated haemostasis analysers to Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals for over 20 years! St. Thomas’ hospital have been expert evaluators of analytical systems over that time and have conducted studies on Lupus 1,2,3,4, automated platelet aggregometry 5, and the importance of using an acceptable linear calibration curve for coagulation factor assays 6 using the CA and CS-Series analyers. The CN-Series offers the site advanced clinical services through haemostasis laboratory testing. The CN-Series, Sysmex’s most advanced haemostasis systems to date, have been created to provide a highly powerful solution by delivering answers to laboratory haemostasis testing requirements in terms of productivity, services, analytical and operational performance. “The smaller footprint, high throughput, reduced maintenance and increased audit trail made the CN Series analysers the best option for our analyser refresh programme. The opportunity to be among the first labs to be using the new generation, state of the art systems is very exciting.”
The CN-3000/6000 with Extended sampler provides a loading capacity of up to 120 samples at any one time
Jacqueline Cutler, Operations Manager for Viapath at St. Thomas’ Hospital
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