JPS6037897B2 - Serum dispensing cup installation instruction device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a serum dispensing cup installation instruction device.

Conventionally, in hospital laboratories and testing centers, serial numbers (sample numbers) are assigned to test tubes containing test request slips and corresponding whole blood samples, and then serial numbers (sample numbers) are assigned to test tubes that are stored in test order slips and corresponding whole blood samples. Extract the specimen number of the slip requesting the desired test from among all the test items listed.

What is generally called a worksheet (work schedule) is created in this way.The whole blood sample is centrifuged and only the serum is separated into a separate test tube to be used as a serum sample.

The test tube containing the serum sample should also be numbered the same as the whole blood sample. The laboratory technician draws the necessary amount of serum from the relevant serum sample while looking at the worksheet (that is, one serum sample is dispensed into several cups), tests several of the drawn serum at once, and reports the results. The conventional and common work pattern is to issue the following.

However, there are problems such as errors in creating worksheets, mistakes in reading the worksheets, and mistakes in associating samples with sample numbers, resulting in a high incidence of sample mix-ups.Furthermore, with the advent of high-speed automatic analyzers, The multi-dispensing method takes too much time, and there is a growing demand for a method that allows for quick and accurate dispensing.

Recently, with the introduction of computer systems, methods are being explored to speed up the serum dispensing process and improve reliability by inputting all the contents of the test request slip into the computer and issuing a worksheet from the computer.

However, the work of drawing serum while looking at a worksheet is done manually by a laboratory technician, and there remains a risk of sample mix-up due to a misunderstanding of the worksheet, so it cannot be said to be completely reliable. .

The present invention is directed to a device for instructing the installation of a separation cup, which uses a computer to speed up and improve the reliability of serum separation operations.

An embodiment of the present invention shown in the drawings will be described below.

FIG. 1 is an external view of the serum dispensing cup installation instruction device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 shows a rack 4 for storing serum aliquot cups 17.

16 is a cup receiving hole for storing a serum dispensing cup.

12 is a sample number attached to distinguish each sample, and 7 is a rack number.

Here, the rack number 7 is a number representing several sample numbers 12. In addition, the cup receiving holes 16 are arranged in multiple columns and rows. Each row corresponds to a specimen having the same specimen number 12 written on the right end, and each column corresponds to the same test item. This is an example. FIG. 2 is a sectional view when the rack 4 shown in FIG. 3 is installed in the rack insertion part 2 of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1.

Here, reference numeral 16 denotes a cup receiving hole, which has various shapes so as to be able to accommodate variously shaped serum-absorbing cups 17. Further, the bottom of each cup receiving hole 16 is a through hole 20, and the light of the cup installation instruction lamp 14 attached to the lower end of each cup receiving hole 16 can be seen at the top. In other words, the cup installation instruction lamps 14 are arranged in multiple rows both vertically and horizontally so as to be located at the bottom of the cup receiving hole 16, each machine row corresponds to the same specimen, and each column corresponds to the same inspection item. This is the column corresponding to . 21 is a lamp protection plate for protecting the cup installation instruction lamp.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a control circuit unit for transmitting and receiving information to and from the computer 8 and controlling operations such as blinking of the lamp of the apparatus.

Further, 10 is a numeric display tube that displays rack number 7.
As mentioned above, reference numeral 2 denotes a rack insertion part for installing the rack 4 shown in FIG. 3, and a cup reinstallation instruction lamp 14 is attached to the bottom of the rack insertion part in the arrangement as described above. Also 6
is a rack number reading mechanism, which is a means for reading the rack number 7 attached to the rack 4 when the rack 4 is installed in the rack insertion section 2. First, when the power is turned on with the power switch 3, the power lamp 19 lights up and the device is ready for use.

Date m information (
For example, hospital classification m, medical treatment classification m, etc.) are set.
Next, the rack 4 shown in FIG. 3 is installed in the rack insertion section 2, and the start switch 5 is pressed.

As a result, the date/m information set in the digital switches 1 and D2 and the rack number 7 read by the rack number reading mechanism 6 are transferred to the computer 8. The computer 8 creates cup installation instruction information based on the test request information such as the sample number and test item group that has been input in advance according to the above information and the correspondence table between the sample number and the rack number 7, and sends this to the device. Forward. Next, the device lights up the corresponding cup installation instruction lamp 14 based on the cup installation instruction information. If an error occurs during these steps, the error lamp 9 lights up, and if there is no error and the serum dispensing cup 17 can be inserted into the cup receiving hole 16, the ready lamp 11 lights up. If the cancel switch 18 is pressed, the device is reset to the initial state and can be operated again using the above procedure. As described above, the laboratory technician places the prescribed serum dispensing cup 17 into the cup receiving hole 16 corresponding to the position where the cup installation instruction lamp 14 is lit.
Insert the sample number 1 specified on the right end of rack 4.
The separation work can be carried out correctly by dispensing a predetermined amount of serum samples having the same sample number as 2 into the serum dispensing cups 17 arranged in the corresponding rows.

Next, the same test may be performed on the serum samples dispensed into the serum dispensing cups 17 arranged in the same column. The use of the cup installation instruction device as described above has the following advantages.

■ There is no need to create a worksheet because the serum dispensed into the cups placed on the rack can be tested in order.

■ Serum can be quickly dispensed because it is no longer necessary to dispense while looking at a worksheet, and it is only necessary to dispense into the installed cup.

■ Since the computer checks the sample number and test request details and creates cup installation information (dispensing information), there is no mix-up of samples and reliability is improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a cup installation display device embodying the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view thereof, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the rack. 1... Control circuit section, 2... Rack insertion section,
3...Power switch, 4...Rack,
5...Start switch, 6...Rack number reading mechanism, 7...Rack number, 8...Computer, 9...Error lamp, lo. ．． ．． ．． ．．
．． Numerical display tube, 11...Ready lamp, 12.
...Sample number, 14...Cup installation indicator lamp, 16...Cup receiving hole, 17...Serum dispensing cup, 18...Cancel switch, 19
...Power lamp, 20...Through hole, 21.
...Lamp protection plate. Figure 1 and Figure 2 Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. It has a rack for arranging serum dispensing cups in cup receiving holes which are arranged in a plurality of vertical and horizontal rows and penetrates to the bottom, and when the rack is installed, the cup receiving holes are A cup installation instruction device for serum dispensing, characterized in that a cup installation instruction lamp is placed directly below. 2. Instructions for installing a serum dispensing cup according to claim 1, wherein the rack has a readable rack number, and is equipped with a reading means for reading the rack number when the rack is installed. Device. 3. A patent characterized in that it has means for transmitting the rack number read by the reading means to a computer, means for receiving instruction information from the computer, and means for lighting the cup installation instruction lamp in accordance with the instruction information. A serum dispensing cup installation instruction device according to claim 2.