Quality Drug Testing Analyzers forFast, Accurate and Consistent Results

by Jeremy Linder Lab Equipment Supplier

Drug testing analyzers are used in drugs-of-abuse and therapeutic drug monitoring. This analyzers use measurement technologies including photometric and colorimetric testing, ion-selective potentiometry, and latex agglutination to analyze samples such as blood serum, plasma, and urine. They can be used in all types of laboratories, from small point-of-care clinics to high-throughput clinical labs.

Drug abuse can have a serious and long-term effect on health and well being. Early detection can prevent significant consequences of substance abuse. Drugs of abuse testing (DAT) programs require high-quality drug testing analyzers, assays and a comprehensive, broad menu to support laboratories’ drug-testing goals. Here are some quality drug testing analyzers available on the market:

MedicaEasyRA Clinical Chemistry Analyzer - LIS, PRINTER - This benchtop analyzer provides 150 – 180 drug screening tests per hour or up to 240 routine chemistries per hour. It is easy-to-use and has faster cycle time for inventories, pipetting as well as fluid handling. It provides a single platform for drugs of abuse in urine and routine chemistries. It can store up to2000 patient results and retrieve results. This upgraded analyzer provides reliable test results at nearly twice the speed of current models. It reports both positive and negative results. This fully automated device comes with user interface that are able to edit and monitor work lists, review results, review calibration and quality control results.It requires minimal hardware changes and no additional service training to operate.Moderately complex drug screening on this analyzer provides more clinicians more control,allowing them to run individual analytes of interest. It also reduces risk of transcription errors with automated data entry and bidirectional LIS communication.

Thermo Scientific Indiko™ Plus Clinical and Specialty Chemistry System - This fully automated analyzer produces results quickly, there by improving the quality of patient care. The analyzer,reagents and consumables form a reliable, fully supported system solution that offers confidence to daily work. This bench-top clinical and specialty chemistry system comes with three different sample racks for user convenience. Two 9-position racks can be adjusted for different aspiration heights and both can be used for 0.5 and 2.0 ml cups and 5, 7 or 10 ml tubes; the 18-position rack can be used either for 0.5 and 2.0 ml cups or for non-barcoded 7 ml tube. It is ideal for clinical and special chemistries including enzymes, substrates, electrolytes, specific proteins, therapeutic drug monitoring, and drugs of abuse and immunosuppressant drug tests. Its reagents are ready-to-use which helps save operator time and enables reliability. It has disposable cuvettes which promotes safe and contamination free analysis. The clear and simple user interface makes patient sample handling easy and also allows control of the reagent levels in real-time during work.

Beckman Coulter / Olympus AU480 Chemistry Analyzer- This fully automated, random access chemistry analyzer is ideal for low to mid-volume hospitals and laboratories. It offers a throughput of 400 photometric tests per hour (up to 800 with ISEs) and an on board capacity of 63 different analytes. This primary chemistry analyzer with STAT capability can simplify operations with user-friendly graphical user interface design and touch-screen monitor.

Beckman Coulter / Olympus AU680 Chemistry Analyzer - This analyzer isideal for use in mid to high-volume laboratories. It offers a speed of up to 1200 tests per hour and comes with an on-board capacity of up to 63 different tests in parallel. Other features include clot detection and probe crash protection

Olympus AU400 Chemistry Analyzer - This fully automated chemistry analyzer is designed to meet the needs of hospitals, and core and commercial laboratories. It can be used in single or multiple locations.It helps increase productivity, reduce operating costs and deliver fast as well as reliable results. It offers a broad test menu including those of homogeneous immunoassays for protein analytes such as apolipo proteins, immunoglobulin, complement components, etc.It produces the same reliable results and reference ranges and provides efficient inventory management.

Purchasing drug testing analyzers from a reliable lab equipment supplier would offer competitive pricing as well as timely maintenance support.