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New Blood Gas Training App for Healthcare Professionals Launched


Power at your Fingertips


LTE Scientific, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of autoclaves and laboratory equipment has introduced a NEW powered door option to its popular Touchclave-Lab range of square- chambered autoclaves.


Touchclave-lab autoclaves currently employ an easy-move manual vertical sliding door, which will continue to be provided as standard on all models.


In order to appeal to customers who prefer the idea of an automatically closing and opening door, LTE have developed the ‘power door’ option which is now available to order on all new Touchclave-Lab autoclaves.


The new system incorporates simple and reliable pneumatic pistons, fed from the built-in silent compressor. The door is opened and closed via the touchscreen, and will be fitted with a safety edge system which immediately stops the door in the event of an obstruction.


The Power Door option only increases the Touchclave-Lab’s depth by 15mm, thus ensuring that the Touchclave-Lab range remains the most space-efficient autoclave of its type.


Downloadable free of charge from the App Store, the ‘Blood Gas – Learn your ABGs’ app from Roche is a fun new training tool designed to support healthcare professionals in learning how to avoid pre-analytical errors in arterial blood gas (ABG) testing. Covering all aspects of blood gas pre-analytics, from patient preparation to sample collection and storage, the app aims to help ensure good practice, safe procedures and reliable results in point of care ABG testing.


Users can access fully referenced teaching material for all aspects of blood gas pre-analytics, including: collection devices, anticoagulants, patient preparation, sample collection, sample mixing, sample treatment and transport, and sample storage. After successfully completing an interactive quiz, with three rounds of multiple choice questions and six mini-game challenges, users are issued with a training certificate that can be emailed as a permanent record of their achievement.


“Good pre-analytical procedures are extremely important to ensure accurate and reliable blood gas results,” commented Michael Kew, Market Manager. “This interactive app provides an accessible and entertaining way to learn, while stressing the importance of each aspect of ABG testing pre-analytics. This is just one aspect of the service that we offer in support of Roche point of care blood gas analysers, such as the cobas b 123 POC System.”


The ‘Blood Gas – Learn your ABGs’ app is completely free and available to download at the App Store today. For further information about arterial blood gas testing and the cobas b 123 POC System, please telephone 01444 256000 or visit the Roche website at www.roche.co.uk.


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The Touchclave-Lab range is available in capacities from 150 to 450-litres and incorporates LTE’s powerful and versatile touchscreen control system. This easy to use menu driven system offers internal data archiving for up to 5000 cycles, 8 programmable cycles, comprehensive user logs and diagnostics as standard.


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Glimpse an Insight into a leading British Innovative Autoclave Manufacturer


This week an insight into the design strengths and manufacturing skills of British laboratory autoclave producer Priorclave are revealed in a new Corporate Video. The short video clip takes the viewer on a journey that every autoclave built takes at the company’s manufacturing centre in South East London, from the design studio, through component production to final assembly, test and make-ready for delivery. The new Corporate Video also gives a brief look into the superb customer support programme from a dedicated service team that extends around the world.


Priorclave is one of the best and most successful technical innovators when it comes to producing robust, reliable and highly effective steam sterilisers and this skill has enabled the company to gain a strong global presence, with exports accounting for around 60% of output from the London manufacturing plant.


After viewing the video it is not difficult to understand why Priorclave enjoys international success, supplying around the world to organisations actively involved in research in food, dairy, microbiology and pharmaceutical manufacture, the health care sector as well as, universities and other institutes. Its global presence stems from a commitment to produce autoclaves that meet the needs of the applications and suit the working environment.


The opening sequence of the new Priorclave Corporate autoclave video shows examples from a comprehensive range of standard laboratory steam sterilisers that include benchtop autoclaves, front loading autoclaves, the unique RSC front loading laboratory autoclaves, top loading models, doubled-ended autoclaves and power door sterilisers. In addition to standard designs, Priorclave is also able to engineer laboratory autoclaves to accommodate unique requirements when required.


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Versatile AFM System used for Force Measurements at Monash University


Dr Rico Tabor leads the Soft Materials and Colloids Group in the School of Chemistry at Monash University. Research focuses on several areas. At a fundamental level, the group is interested in exploring the interactions that cause aggregation and assembly, in everything from nanoparticles, droplets and graphene to proteins and cells. In particular, they are exploring ways in which such forces can be exploited, such as whether changing something as simple as pH can cause particles or drops to coalesce or stick together. In other circumstances, more ‘advanced’ stimuli such as light or magnetic fields are used to induce the chemical or physical effects that are required.


Dr Tabor described some of the techniques that are used: “We use many tools frequently from simple things like surface tension all the way up to large-scale facilities such as the Australian Synchrotron and the neutron facilities at the Bragg Institute. However, AFM is the only technique that can tell us directly about forces in such a wide range of systems. Although there are other force measuring techniques, for the family of materials that we are interested in, AFM is the gold standard in terms of applicability, versatility and precision. With AFM, you can explore so much more. Some things such as biological molecules, surfactant assemblies and other soft, labile materials are almost impossible to image in electron microscopy, but with judicious cantilever choice, the AFM often comes to the rescue.”


So why did Dr Tabor choose the NanoWizard® AFM from JPK? “I have used several commercial AFMs but, for me, JPK AFMs appealed because


of the durability when working in liquids - most of our systems are wet at one stage or another. We can just drop our sample into a Petri dish and off we go! The hassle of the fiddly liquid cells found with other AFMs used to frustrate me no end. The versatility of the JPK is a great bonus, and the setup time is so fast - I can be ready and imaging within 5 minutes, which I think beats any of the other comparable models. Combine this with automated force curve acquisition and analysis, and you have a powerful system for force measurement.”


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