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A united states (us) customer contacted the siemens healthcare diagnostics remote services center (rsc) regarding erroneously elevated enzymatic hemoglobin a1c (a1c_e) results obtained on multiple patient samples on an atellica ch 930 analyzer.Calibration was acceptable.Quality control (qc) recovered acceptably before the event and recovered outside the range after the event.A siemens customer service engineer (cse) was dispatched to the customer¿s site.During the visit the cse inspected the analyzer, reviewed auto checks and found that reagent arm 1 was failing the alignment check, performed manual alignment for reagent arm 1 and ran auto alignment for both reagent servers, all three mixers and all four transfer arms.Then, the cse ran full auto check which passed, ran the atellica test protocol (atp) service methods which passed.Siemens is evaluating the event.
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