Quality Control Test
To ensure that a required QC test is performed at the designated time, a warning or lockout mode was selected. Both modes display a message informing you that QC is due. The warning mode allows you to continue with a patient test; the lockout mode prevents you from using the bedside unit for a patient test until QC is successfully performed.
A second lockout mode prevents the operator who has not performed QC testing within the designated number of days from using the bedside unit to test patient blood.
If a lockout mode was selected and QC is due, a message appears when you start the bedside unit. You cannot proceed with patient testing until the required QC tests have been successfully performed.
When to Perform a Quality Control Test
•As required by your institution’s quality control policy or local regulatory requirements.
•When you open a new bottle of test strips.
•If a patient test has been repeated and the blood glucose results are still lower or higher than expected.
•After cleaning the bedside unit.
•If there are other indications that the system is not working properly.
•If you drop the bedside unit.
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