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On 12-dec-2023, abbott point of care (apoc) was contacted by a customer regarding i-stat troponin cartridges that yielded a false positive discrepant result of 0.11 ng/l on a 42 year old female patient with oppressive chest pain radiating to the back, feeling of dyspnea.Ant ca left breast in remission with emptying-obesity.There was no additional patient information at the time of this report.Return product is not available for investigation.Method.Date.Collected.Tested.Results.Sample.I-stat, (b)(6) 2023, 12:03, 12:15, 0.11 ng/ml, a, architecti1000, (b)(6) 2023, 13:29, 14:39, 0.0120 ng/ml, b, architecti1000 (b)(6) 2023, 16:00, 17:24, 0.0127 ng/ml, c.Cutoffs.I-stat: 0.00 to 0.03 ng/ml.Architecti1000: 0.0 to 0.0156 ng/ml.At this time there is no reason to suspect a malfunction exists.The reporting decision was based on the limited information available that suggested that product was not performing within the variability.There is no evidence the pateint suffered an mi.The investigation is underway.Per i-stat system manual: art: 715595-00v.Reportable range: 0.00 - 50.00.Reference range: 0.00 - 0.03 (represents the 0 to 97.5% range of results).Reference range: 0.00 - 0.08 (represents the 0 to 99% range of results).
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