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A united states (us) customer contacted a siemens customer care center (ccc) and reported that erroneously elevated concentrated carbon dioxide (co2_c) results were obtained on three (3) patient samples on an advia® 1800 clinical chemistry system.Quality control (qc) and calibration were within range on the day of the event.A siemens customer service engineer (cse) was dispatched to the customer¿s site.During the visit, the cse inspected the instrument, performed a total service call and instrument decontamination.The customer ran qc.Further, the cse replaced water filled main degasser, ran prime 3 and wash 3, performed system check, reviewed reaction curves, cleaned gev valve, swapped dilution reaction tray wash up down unit (dwud) nozzle 1, verified probe and mixer alignments, cleaned/rebuilt vertical pumps, cleaned/aligned reaction tray wash up down unit (wud)/dwud nozzles, performed wash 2 and ran calibrations and qc.Siemens evaluated the event and ruled out reagent issues based on review of qc which showed recovery within acceptable ranges.The cause of the falsely elevated co2_c results is unknown.The device is performing within specifications.No further evaluation is required.
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