On (b)(6) 2023, abbott point of care was contacted by a customer regarding i-stat crea cartridges that yielded a suspected discrepant creatinine result of 404 umol/l on a patient.There was no patient information available at the time of this report.Method result i-stat 404 umol/l.Lab 64 umol/l.Customer did not provide test/collection times, dates, nor details surround the event.There are no injuries associated with this event.At this time there is no reason to suspect a malfunction exists.Two i-stat results are consistently high on two different samples.It is suspected based on the elevated i-stat results that the patient may be on hydroxyurea and the cause for the elevated results.However, there was no confirmation of the patient's medications at the time of this report.The investigation is underway.
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