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Post by Chuck Weddle on Jul 26, 2024 12:24:30 GMT
Funny enough.. as it cooled down, so did our issues here. LAL and endos eventually went back down and were good from October until this month. Fast forward to June 2024. I now have the same issues, high endo and colony count issues. It's also hot. We've doubled the amount of ice packs in the boxes. We now disinfect the R.O. monthly instead of quarterly with minncare, along with the loop being done monthly. Results have looked great up until this week. I still believe Ascend is a big part of the issue here. We never experienced issues like this previously when we were with Spectra. Company won't fork the money to deal with another lab, so I'm stuck with them for now. I really don't want another 4 months of battling the cultures. Any other ideas? Is spectra labs really more expensive than Ascend? We switched because we had issues years and years ago and Spectra was cheaper and I've only had one issue where I had multiple results come back bad from the same shipment, other than that it's been great. I don't know about now but when we switched to Ascend (Nationwide at the time) they gave a lot more bang for the buck. I really like their online ordering and reporting and it meshes seamlessly with our EMR. There's also the added benefit that they are NOT Fresenius.
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Post by joey on Jul 26, 2024 13:31:04 GMT
Is spectra labs really more expensive than Ascend? We switched because we had issues years and years ago and Spectra was cheaper and I've only had one issue where I had multiple results come back bad from the same shipment, other than that it's been great. I don't know about now but when we switched to Ascend (Nationwide at the time) they gave a lot more bang for the buck. I really like their online ordering and reporting and it meshes seamlessly with our EMR. There's also the added benefit that they are NOT Fresenius. Oh I get it we used to use Satellite before it became Ascend. Satellite was awesome....Ascend was good in the beginning then started to slip. I'll deal with it being Fresenius if I don't have to do extra redraws and disinfections.
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Post by Bones on Jul 30, 2024 19:50:52 GMT
Nope, but we got underlying issues with them so...there's that. As far as my endo and colony issues... one clinic is good after disinfecting. The other unit will be the death of me. Colony count is ok... Endos are high.
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Post by Chuck Weddle on Jul 30, 2024 20:35:57 GMT
Nope, but we got underlying issues with them so...there's that. As far as my endo and colony issues... one clinic is good after disinfecting. The other unit will be the death of me. Colony count is ok... Endos are high. I hate to say it but that's indicative of likely heavy biofilm. Is ozone an option?
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Post by Bones on Aug 7, 2024 11:44:02 GMT
Hey Chuck, I'm gonna send you a private message... but yes?
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Post by Chuck Weddle on Aug 7, 2024 11:53:25 GMT
Hey Chuck, I'm gonna send you a private message... but yes? Beat ya to it.....check your messages.
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