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Keith Loria, Reporter | March 10, 2010
"Our most recent product developments were two new multipurpose electrical safety analyzers-one precision bench-top device (ESA620) for high-end testing, and one portable smart device (ESA612) for fast and easy field testing," Allen says. "Both combine the unbeatable accuracy and ruggedness that is synonymous with the Fluke brand with major advances in productivity and digital data management."
Fluke also just launched their expanded TNT 12000 X-Ray Test Tools platform, including the most advanced precision dosimeter and integral mA/mAs protocol available today.
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"The main benefits of the TNT 12000 products are speed of testing and ease of use, which streamlines QA workflow," Allen says. "They're also the first X-ray QA devices to utilize ZigBee wireless interface, which is preferred over Bluetooth in medical settings where interference with delicate patient monitoring and treatment equipment may be a concern."
The Fluke Biomedical ESA612
field Electrical Safety Analyzer
Meanwhile, their sister company, Radiometer, is clinically testing an exciting new blood gas analyzer, the ABL800 Flex, which demonstrated the best correlation to plasma creatinine and the best clinical concordance when creatinine values were used to calculate Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR), according to a recent study done by the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology of world-renowned Mayo Clinic.
Challenges
According to Dean Johnson, president of the Wisconsin-based BioTech Services, Inc., which services general laboratory equipment, such as incubators, centrifuges, microtomes, refrigerated equipment and microscopes, the biggest challenge in the industry is in the question: "What does the future hold if health care reform passes through Congress?"
"Lab managers are holding back and waiting to see what impact this legislation will have. This legislation will probably have an impact on manufacturers also," Johnson says. "New equipment is still being purchased. A reason for this is that equipment that was already budgeted for is now coming into the lab. However, we are being asked to refurbish more equipment to keep it in service, or to bring it back into service. There is an increase in customer requests to locate refurbished lab equipment for purchase."
