Integrated apparatus for hematological analysis and related method
First Claim
1. Integrated apparatus for hematological analyses, wherein it comprises, arranged substantially in line and integrated substantially in a single machine, an optical device to detect substantially instantaneously the speed of blood sedimentation (ESR) by measuring the optical density, or absorbance, of a blood sample, and a measuring assembly with a cell-counter function, said optical device for the detection of the ESR and said measuring assembly sharing a circuit for circulation of the same blood sample to be subjected first to the detection of the ESR and then to other measurements such as counting the red cells, white cells, platelets, the hematocrit and other parameters relating to the form and size of the corpuscle part of the blood, said optical device for the detection of the ESR and said measuring assembly with a cell-counter function sharing a pump associated on the circuit and for circulating the blood sample, said apparatus further including a single command and control unit controlling and governing the functioning of said optical device to detect the speed of blood sedimentation and said measuring assembly.
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Integrated apparatus and method for hematological analyses, wherein the apparatus comprises, arranged substantially in line and integrated substantially in a single machine, a device (14) of the optical type to detect substantially instantaneously the speed of blood sedimentation (ESR) by measuring the optical density, or absorbance, of the blood sample, and a measuring assembly (18) with a cell-counter function or suchlike.
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- 1. Integrated apparatus for hematological analyses, wherein it comprises, arranged substantially in line and integrated substantially in a single machine, an optical device to detect substantially instantaneously the speed of blood sedimentation (ESR) by measuring the optical density, or absorbance, of a blood sample, and a measuring assembly with a cell-counter function, said optical device for the detection of the ESR and said measuring assembly sharing a circuit for circulation of the same blood sample to be subjected first to the detection of the ESR and then to other measurements such as counting the red cells, white cells, platelets, the hematocrit and other parameters relating to the form and size of the corpuscle part of the blood, said optical device for the detection of the ESR and said measuring assembly with a cell-counter function sharing a pump associated on the circuit and for circulating the blood sample, said apparatus further including a single command and control unit controlling and governing the functioning of said optical device to detect the speed of blood sedimentation and said measuring assembly.
- 7. Method to perform hematological analyses, wherein it provides that a blood sample, taken under control of a single command and control unit from a container by means of a pick-up needle member, is sent to and made to circulate in a single circuit which passes in close sequence, and substantially without any break in continuity, first through an optical device under control of the single command and control unit to detect substantially instantaneously the speed of blood sedimentation (ESR) by measuring the optical density, or absorbance, of the blood sample, and then through a measuring assembly under control of the single command and control unit to count the cells, or other measurement connected with counting cells, wherein said optical device and said measuring assembly are a single machine sharing a pump associated on the single circuit, and are arranged in line and without any break in continuity in order to be able to perform on the same blood sample first the measurement of the ESR and then other measurements such as counting the red cells, white cells, platelets, the hematocrit and other parameters relating to the form and size of the corpuscle part of the blood.
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