Review of complaints associated with likely cause lot 48093uq08 found no other complaints.Review of complaints associated with the carbon dioxide assay did not identify any adverse or non-statistical trends.Labeling was reviewed and sufficiently addresses the customer's issue.The patient's lipemic serum was visually described as "milky" or "milkshake".Along with the suspect co2 results, the hil (hemolysis icterus lipemia) results were also provided.These results show extremely elevated semi-quantitative lipemia results of between 5.42 and 7.88.Use error may have contributed to the customer's issue as the extreme lipemia of the sample prevented the assay from producing the correct result.Other assay results, namely the hil indices, advise the operator of a highly lipemic sample and further investigation of the sample is required before producing final results for any photometric analysis.A systemic issue or deficiency was not identified.Additional sample ids (b)(6).
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The customer reported falsely depressed co2 results of 11, 8, 13, <5 mmol/l were generated using several architect analyzers with a patient who tested siemens rapid point 500 blood gas analyzer of 24.2 mmol/l.The account uses a normal co2 reference range of 22 to 30 mmol/l.No impact to patient management was reported.
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