Inventors:
Richard Torres - East Haven CT
Robert A. Levine - Guilford CT 06437
Stephen C. Wardlaw - Lyme CT 06371
Assignee:
Robert A. Levine - Guilford CT
Stephen C. Wardlaw - Lyme CT
International Classification:
G01N 3100
US Classification:
435 2, 435 4, 436 8, 436 16, 600368
Abstract:
A non-animal based mixture of components serves as a control for complete blood count (CBC) analysis instruments and paraphernalia. The centrifugible non-animal based mixture simulates blood, and contains blood cell-simulating and other blood constituent-simulating components which are present in the mixture in controlled and known amounts. The mixture can be gravimetrically separated into its blood constituent-simulating components so as to serve as a control that simulates a centrifuged blood sample, and is thus used to check the accuracy of CBC blood analysis instruments, such as those marketed by Becton Dickinson and Company, under the trademark âQBCâ.