Impact of the new Beckman Coulter Cytomics FC 500 5-color flow cytometer on a regional flow cytometry clinical laboratory service

Laboratory Hematology : Official Publication of the International Society for Laboratory Hematology
J LuiderI Auer

Abstract

Calgary Laboratory Services (CLS) in Alberta, Canada, is the regional reference laboratory providing flow cytometry services for southern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. As a busy reference flow laboratory we provide flow cytometry immunophenotyping for investigation and diagnosis of acute and chronic leukemias, lymphomas, immunodeficiencies, neuroblastoma, platelet disorders, and interstitial lung disease (ILD). Because of increasing workload and the continual effort to improve the service to our health care providers, CLS invested in the new Beckman Coulter Cytomics FC 500 5-color flow cytometer. In addition to time and labor savings due to reduced maintenance and operating system design, this new flow cytometer automates many of the previous manual steps involved in quality control and flow cytometric analysis. It also incorporates 2 lasers and is capable of measuring 5-color antibody combinations in a single tube, enabling us to reduce the number of tubes and overall costs, giving us better gating options for minimal residual disease analysis. We present the first published evaluation, an assessment of the overall productivity and cost impact of the new state-of-the-art Cytomics FC 500 flow cytometer. Implementat...Continue Reading

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