Unattended

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

In a typically bureaucratic reaction, the Californian authorities have said they could consider closing down a hospital at the centre of national outrage over a woman who was left to die on the floor of the emergency room. The Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor hospital, operated by the Los An...

Independence Blue Cross Harnesses Technology to Connect the Dots on Patient Care

...tion and good health, especially when they are encouraging their patients to follow through on preventive measures. Employers also stand to gain since unattended care often results in increased absenteeism, lost productivity and more expensive treatments down the road." Clinical Alerts grew from IBC's ab...

Tips for Transporting Your Pet in California

...$250. In California, it is also against the law to leave an animal unattended in a vehicle under conditions that endanger the animal. Law enforcement of...gainst having a pet in your lap while driving. -- Never leave pets unattended in vehicles, as they can get injured, stolen or suffer or even die from tem...

Cars Are No Place for Kids to Be Alone

...at stroke just one of many dangers for children in unattended vehicles, experts warn THURSDAY, July...rm weather, don't even think about leaving a child unattended in a vehicle. New research from the U.S. Nation.... The NHTSA warns adults to never leave a child unattended in a vehicle and never let them play in an...

Scientists Gather to Discuss Novel Uses of Caliper Life Sciences' Discovery Platforms and Technology

... imaging technologies. Key themes included approaches for obtaining higher fidelity data that better predict human outcomes, increasing throughput and unattended run time while being cognizant of optimizing higher order workflows, decentralizing testing to ensure information is available in real time to decisio...

Keep Safety in Mind While Cooling Off in the Water

...ing children, you can never take too many precautions, emergency physicians say. Ways to prevent deaths from drowning include: Never leave a child unattended near a swimming pool, wading pool, bathtub or hot tub. Don't leave open containers of water near children. Small children can drown in just a few i...

Summer Fun Need Not Be Hazardous

...fits properly. Supervise children at all times when they're around a pool, lake or other body of water, including the bathtub. Never leave children unattended around any water for even a moment. More information: The National Injury Prevention Foundation has a Web page for kids on safe fun . ...

GeckoSystems Reveals Eldercare Capable Personal Robot Sales Forecasts

...l technologies that enable their robots to automatically self-navigate the home or workplace using advanced sense and avoid technologies for reliable, unattended collision avoidance while patrolling, following and/or errand running. The Company's business model is very much like that of an automobile manufactur...

Top Five Things Hospitals Need to do in Order to Remain Safe and Secure

...ions must be properly protected in a secured, locked space such as a drawer or closet. Visitors should also be alert and never leave their belongings unattended in a patients' room. Every hospital must have an updated fire and life safety plan. Employees must study and practice the plan on a regula...

U.S. Mobile Robot Co. Reveals Pacific Rim Sales Forecasts

...l technologies that enable their robots to automatically self-navigate the home or workplace using advanced sense and avoid technologies for reliable, unattended collision avoidance while patrolling, following and/or errand running. The Company's mobile robot solutions are appropriate for the consumer, professi...

Unattended in Medical Technology

When Volume Matters, Immunoassay Systems Deliver

...me product offers a walk-away capacity of up to 840 tests and is able to process 240 tests per hour. It holds 180 samples when fully loaded and offers unattended automatic repeat, dilution and reflex testing. The system features no-pause loading of all reagents, samples and suppliesthe only immunoassay sy...

Unattended in Medical Products

Watch-PAT 100

Description:...he Watch-PAT 100 offers physicians and the millions of undiagnosed sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea a new option for ambulatory, patient-friendly, unattended first line diagnostic evaluation of sleep related breathing disorders....
Company:Itamar Medical Ltd.

VARIANTnbs Newborn Hemoglobin Screening System

Description:...he power of automation to the hemoglobin screening laboratory. As many as 864 samples can be loaded and analyzed in a single run, allowing for maximum unattended system operation....
Company:Bio-Rad Laboratories

Sysmex UF-50™ Fully Automated Urine Cell Analyzer

Description:...e laboratories. Fluorescent flow cytometry and cluster analysis provide automatic classification and identification of ten types of formed elements. unattended operation and superior formed element identification and enumeration bring new levels of efficiency and standardization to the clinical laboratory. T...
Company:Sysmex America, Inc.

Sysmex UF-100 Fully Automated Urine Cell Analyzer

Description:...e laboratories. Fluorescent flow cytometry and cluster analysis provide automatic classification and identification of ten types of formed elements. unattended operation and superior formed element identification and enumeration bring new levels of efficiency and standardization to the clinical laboratory. T...
Company:Sysmex America, Inc.

MonoPrep® LBP Processor

Description:...e slides featuring thin cell layers from a broad range of cytology specimen types. It processes 40 slides per hour for eight hours of fully automated, unattended operation. And its advanced Data Management System is designed to support positive specimen identification....
Company:MonoGen

TurboVap 500 Concentration Workstation

Description:... Utilizing a proprietary gas-vortexing action, its fast, unattended operation doubles sample throughput, frees up resources, and improvises quality control. TurboVaps are in routine use in thousands of environmental...
Company:Caliper Life Sciences

TurboVap II Concentration Workstation

Description:... Utilizing a proprietary gas-vortexing action, its fast, unattended operation doubles sample throughput, frees up resources, and improvises quality control. TurboVaps are in routine use in thousands of environmental...
Company:Caliper Life Sciences

TurboVap 96 Concentration Workstation

Description:... Utilizing a proprietary gas-vortexing action, its fast, unattended operation doubles sample throughput, frees up resources, and improvises quality control. TurboVaps are in routine use in thousands of environmental...
Company:Caliper Life Sciences

TurboVap LV Concentration Workstation

Description:... Utilizing a proprietary gas-vortexing action, its fast, unattended operation doubles sample throughput, frees up resources, and improvises quality control. TurboVaps are in routine use in thousands of environmental...
Company:Caliper Life Sciences

ABI Prism 3100

Description:... The 3100 system offers continuous, unattended operation with automated polymer loading, sample injection, separation and detection, and data analysis. After placing plates on the autosampler and i...
Company:Abbott Diagnostics

Unattended in Biological News

Demonstration Features Commercial Technology for Combating Terrorism

...sion and optics devices; non-lethal weapons and technology; physical security equipment sensor and surveillance systems; robotic vehicles and systems; unattended ground sensors; unmanned aerial vehicles; vulnerability assessment/analysis software tools; and waterside security equipment. Since the first FPE...

Demonstration Features Commercial Technology for Combating Terrorism

...sion and optics devices; non-lethal weapons and technology; physical security equipment sensor and surveillance systems; robotic vehicles and systems; unattended ground sensors; unmanned aerial vehicles; vulnerability assessment/analysis software tools; and waterside security equipment. Since the first FPE...

Demonstration Targets Terrorism

...sion and optics devices; non-lethal weapons and technology; physical security equipment sensor and surveillance systems; robotic vehicles and systems; unattended ground sensors; unmanned aerial vehicles; vulnerability assessment/analysis software tools; and waterside security equipment. In addition to pres...

Neighbors from hell: Infanticide rife in guillemot colony

...s of seabird is increasingly attacking and killing unattended chicks from neighbouring nests due to food shortag...ed parental dilemma: should both leave their chick unattended and spend more time feeding, or should one of them...e. Researchers witnessed almost half of all chicks unattended at some point during the day. Surrounded by ne...

New decontamination system kills anthrax rapidly without lingering effects

...ights that face outward to broadcast radiation throughout a room. Since the X-rays and UV-C are lethal at the flux densities used, the system operates unattended and is turned on outside the affected space. UV-C light in the modules is produced using the optical and electrical phenomenon of cathodoluminescen...

New sensor detects gaseous chemical weapon surrogates in 45 seconds

...hat is 12 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high ?and the entire thing would weigh less than 15 pounds. In addition, the instrument can operate unattended for long periods of time. QPAS is currently at Technology Readiness Level "five," meaning that while the technical components exist and initial t...

Study finds mercury prevalent in many western fish

...n birds, the effects of mercury contamination are neurological or behavioral ?and often subtle. They may not clean their young, or they may leave eggs unattended in their nests. "We simply haven't done enough studies to know all of the impacts, especially on fish-eating animals," Hughes added. The stud...

Finding the mind's eye

... of the brain and how it transforms visual stimuli into conscious experience. His paper, "Visibility, visual awareness, and visual masking of simple unattended targets are confined to areas in the occipital cortex beyond human V1/V2," is available in the Nov. 8 issue of the weekly journal, The Proceedings of ...

Unattended in Biological Technology

Applied Biosystems SOLiD System Named Life Science Innovation of the Year : The Scientist Magazine Cites the Technology's High Throughput, Lower Sequencing Cost, and Rapid Technology Innovation for Unlocking New Approaches to Clinical Research

...key enhancements provide a more efficient workflow, including simplified sample handling, optimized chemistry for improved performance, automation for unattended operation, enhanced software algorithms to streamline data handling, and a suite of bioinformatics software tools to expand the breadth of supported a...

Medicare Approves in Home Sleep Apnea Testing

...facility-based polysomnography. The new policy allows continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for Medicare patients who are diagnosed via unattended home monitoring devices. This decision will likely prompt increased coverage from insurance companies around the country. "SleepQuest is very excite...

Medicare Coverage Recommended for In-Home Sleep Testing

...cluding SleepQuest's Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. William C. Dement, the father of modern sleep medicine. SleepQuest is a leading provider of at-home unattended diagnostic sleep testing and sleep apnea treatment, and President Robert Koenigsberg was a vital part of the coalition that fought for approval. "We...

HEK293 Calcium Flux Assay

...ll usage as low as 900 cells/well Z' = 0.61 for agonist assay unattended run time of > 4 hours Throughput of up to 2,500 samples in 4 hours ...rewarmed growth medium to a total volume of 12 mL. Place two T75 flasks per unattended run in an incubator at 10% CO 2 in air and 37 o C. The flask will be 50-8...

Calcium Flux Assays using the LabChip 3000

.... CHO-m1 Assay Summary Typical cell usage as low as 600-1000 cells/well Z' = 0.86 for Agonist, Z' = 0.72 for Antagonist unattended run time of between 4 and 8 hr Throughput of up to 8,000 samples in 8 hr II. Overview The general steps followed in the ...

Rapid, High Throughput Mutation Discovery Using Fluorescent SSCP on the ABI PRISM 3100 and 3100Avant Genetic Analyzers

...es in 24 hours Ease-of-use Fully automated polymer filling, sample injection, detection, and data analysis 24-hour unattended operation Easy instrument set-up Convenience Minimal hands-on labor; no slab gels to prepare, no loading with pipe...

Serial Analysis of Gene Expression Using ABI PRISM DNA Sequencers and BigDye Terminators

...n longer fragments. Complete Automation Both the 3100 and 3700 DNA sequencers are designed for more than 24 hours of unattended operation. Human intervention is required only to place the 96- or 384-well sample trays on the instrument, and to replenish the polymer supply. All o...

Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) Analysis on Applied Biosystems Capillary Electrophoresis Systems

...ly automated, from the moment each 96- or 384-well plate is placed on the instrument and the run is initiated. Each of the systems provide continuous, unattended operation, from automated polymer loading and sample injection to separation, detection, and data generation. When the Autoanalysis feature of GeneMap...

Rapid Chromatography Optimization by pH Scouting Using the New BioLogic Maximizer Valve System, Rev A

...mal attendance. The total time for the set of four separations was 5 hr. The experiment was started at the end of the day, and ran unattended during the evening. Eliminating the need to make up three extra sets of buffers saved an estimated additional 1.5 hr of labor. The...

Unattended in Biological Products

PW 384 from Tecan

Description:...c Systems (Genesis-based workstations, TRAC-systems as well as stand-alone operation) Extra-large bottle set and liquid level monitoring system for unattended operation available as option Innovative design allows to switch between 384-well plates and 96-well plates, by simply exchanging the wash head ...
Company:Tecan

Mutation Surveyor from SoftGenetics, LLC.

Description:...in the background noise. Mutation Surveyor easily processes 400 lanes of data in approximately two minutes, and can be operated on a fully automated unattended basis. The software automatically forms contigs, performs alignments and mutation detection comparing both forward and reverse patient traces to refe...
Company:SoftGenetics, LLC.

GenePaint from Tecan

Description:...r functional genomic studies include: eliminates 80% of the manual steps of conventional ISH, FISH or IHC analysis extends walk-away time through unattended hybridization protocols allows the use of any commercial set of reagents for hybridization studies assures consistent and reproducible results o...
Company:Tecan

VersArray ChipWriter Pro Systems from Bio-Rad

Description:...iver unparalleled quality arrays on a variety of substrates. Their modular component design and flexible software easily adapt to either micro-runs or unattended high-throughput prints....
Company:Bio-Rad

SC110A SpeedVac Concentrator from Thermo Scientific

Description:...or Chamber for long lasting chemical compatibility Three Selectable Heating Levels optimize evaporation Automatic Bleeder Valve for unattended vacuum control A Wide Selection of Available Rotors including custom rotors to suit your application. Rotors are able to accept tube sizes fr...
Company:Thermo Scientific

SC210A SpeedVac Concentrator from Thermo Scientific

Description:... Chamber for long lasting chemical compatibility Three Selectable Heating Levels optimize evaporation Automatic Bleeder Valve for unattended vacuum control A Wide Selection of Rotors including custom rotors to suit your application. Rotors are able to accept tube sizes from 0.4ml t...
Company:Thermo Scientific

QPatch 16 from Sophion Bioscience

Description:...bsorbed, which could lead to costly right-shifted IC50 values. The QPatch also includes an on-board cell preparation station that allows ~ 4 hours of unattended operation. Finally, the QPatch-16 was designed with many more channels in mind....
Company:Sophion Bioscience

BioProfile Chemistry Analyzer from Nova Biomedical

Description:...te, phosphate, and glycerol. These analyzers provide the flexibility of direct sampling, batch processing from a 40-position sampling tray, or direct, unattended sampling from up to four bioreactors using Novas On-Line Autosampler. Optional feedback control allows automated introduction of nutrients when preset...
Company:Nova Biomedical

Precision XS Microplate Sample Processor from BioTek Instruments

Description:... 30 microplates to the Precision XS platform. The Precision XS is the best solution in sample processors for todays modern lab providing the power of unattended operation over manual pipetting with the simplicity and economy lacking in high-end liquid handlers. The Precision XS is specifically designed to fit ...
Company:BioTek Instruments

Qpatch HT from Sophion Bioscience

Description:...mpound plates and QPlates are featured in the QPatch HT. Together with the cell preparation station, the elevator units ensure more than four hours of unattended operation with the QPatch HT. This, for instance, means that the system can be put to work after normal working hours, thus enhancing daily throughput...
Company:Sophion Bioscience