Advia 120

[yasser1968]

Dear Friends

i would like to have some information about the ADVIA 120 about its performance, and what are the posetive and negative feed back concerning this instrument

with regards

[milesd3]

We had the 2120.  When it was running it did a very good diff.  The problem though is that it was very needy. It wanted to be squeaky clean and then for no reason at all MCV or RDW would shift. I literally had to crawl around in the thing at least once a week.

[Auntie-D]

We have the 2120i - maintenence is a nightmare, as is downtime. And what use is an analyser that will not give a diff for 1% of the population? I hope your staff like doing manual differentials under the microscope.

 

They have so much lead-up tubing to the selector valve that you will rarely have enough blood on a paed sample for a rerun.

 

The UFC that contains all the 'tubing' is a nightmare as if you get a blockage the whole UFC may need replacing by an engineer at great cost, rather than just a little bit of tubing by the lab staff.

 

And what sort of analyser needs two separate filters - yes two - for their sheath reagent?!

 

We have 3 for a 300 bed trust and there are usually only 2 in operation at the same time - and one person taken out of the staff to deal with the one not in use.

 

Can you tell I hate them?

 

Sadly I think Siemens have won the tender and we are stuck with them for another 15 years!