The customer contacted the siemens customer care center (ccc).The customer stated they observed low quality control (qc) results following the event.A ccc specialist remotely ran special service methods (smt) and found that sample probe 1 (s1) mixer alignment and reagent probe 2 (r2) alignments were out of range.A siemens customer service engineer (cse) was dispatched to the customer site.During troubleshooting the instrument, the cse replaced the s1 mixer and sample probe 3 (s3) assembly.The cause for the discordant, falsely low glu results was due to a faulty s1 mixer.The instrument is performing according to specifications.No further evaluation of the device is required.
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Discordant, falsely low glucose (glu) results were obtained on patient samples on a dimension vista 1500 instrument.The initial discordant results were not reported to the physician(s).The samples were repeated on an alternate dimension vista instrument, resulting higher.The repeated results were reported to the physician(s).There are no reports of patient intervention or adverse health consequences due to the discordant, falsely low glu results.
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