Description
Starrsed is the world’s only product line that allows laboratories to perform ESR tests that are fully in agreement with the Westergren Method (the Gold Standard). The Starrsed ST is entirely automated and standardized, which makes it easy to use for every employee in your laboratory. The Starrsed ST achieves the highest degree of reliability in testing, leaving you and your operators available for other tasks in the laboratory.
RR Mechatronics has developed the Starrsed ST, which is an tube based ESR analyzer with a small footprint. The Starrsed ST, in full operation, produces sample results up to every 30 seconds. After manually applying the sample tube for aspiration, the entire process is fully automated. A built-in barcode reader identifies each sample. The Starrsed ST will then perform an ESR measurement fully unattended.
Good Laboratory Practice advises the use of controls to ensure the continued reliability of the test results. RR Mechatronics supports this with Starrsed Control. It is to be used in the ESR analyzer as if it were a real patient sample. Starrsed Control is processed exactly the same way and is fully compliant with the ICSH recommendations and CLSI procedures. The Starrsed ST recognizes the test tube by its barcode, reads the ESR range, checks the expiration date of the control, and analyzes the sample. Starrsed Control gives you maximum reliability at minimal effort and costs.
Benefits:
As the Westergren glass tubes are re-usable after each automatic cleaning, there are no additional costs for new pipettes. No disposable plastics of any kind are used.
As opposed to other test instruments, Starrsed instruments actually identify and report hazy samples so that the lab technician may decide on further testing.
The Starrsed ST makes use of EDTA sample tubes. The advantage is that EDTA blood is very stable compared to pre-citrated samples, allowing for accurate ESR test results up to 24 hours after collection. This provides laboratories with even more logistical flexibility.
Because the Starrsed ST dilutes the blood, which is in agreement with the Westergren Method, it compensates for different hematocrit levels. The hematocrit level of the sample therefore will not influence the accuracy of the ESR measured.
