Piccolo® xpress Operation
Piccolo xpress represents a technological breakthrough for care givers, by simply providing on the spot routine multi-chemistry and electrolyte results using a small patient sample size in any treatment setting. Unique advances in micro fluidics, dry reagents, and microelectronics have resulted in a system that can deliver quality results comparable to larger and more expensive laboratory analyzers at the point of care. Integrated calibration, quality control, sample integrity alerts, minimizes procedural errors.
Piccolo operation is as Simple as 1-2-3
Step 1: Add Sample
Simply collect 0.1cc of whole blood, serum or plasma, and transfer it to the self-contained reagent disc. The single use, disposable disc contains all the reagents and diluent necessary to perform a complete fixed multi-test panel.
Step 2: Insert Disc
Follow the touch screen commands. Place the disc into the analyzer drawer, enter requested information and the Piccolo xpress does the rest. In approximately 12 minutes, results are ready!
Step 3: Read Results
Complete panel results including patient demographics, chemistry concentrations, reference ranges, sample integrity indices and iQC are available on the full color display, printed on a self-adhesive print out, transmitted to an external printer, computer or LIS/EMR system. The Piccolo xpress analyzer will store on-board up to 5000 patient and quality control results.