Health Alliance Hospital Letter of Recommendation
Thursday, February 16, 2012To Whom it May Concern, HealthAlliance Hospital has used the SQA-V Gold for the past six months. Before we obtained the SQA-V Gold, we utilized the SQA-V for five years. HealthAlliance Hospital is a busy 200 bed hospital located one hour west of Boston. Securing the SQA analyzer has allowed us to…
Stamford Hospital Letter of Recommendation
February 9, 2012Dear Jamil, I would first like to say thanks for all your assistance with the validation of our SQA-V Gold analyzer. Automating our Fertility department was an excellent decision. My staff is extremely happy and they enjoy using the SQA-V. It is very user friendly and has positively impacted our tun around time. …
Hendrick Regional Laboratory Letter of Recommendation
February 14, 2012To Whom It May Concern: At Hendrick Regional Laboratory we purchased the SQA-V instrument in August of 2011. Before this we were doing Semen Analysis all manually. With the manual method it took about 1.5 hours to complete one specimen. With the SQA-V automated instrument it now takes about 30 minutes to do…
Sunrise Medical Laboratories Letter of Recommendation
February 14, 2012To Whom it May Concern: I am writing this recommendation on behalf of Medical Electronic Systems, LLC in regards to their product, the SQA-V Gold. The SQA-V system was installed in our laboratory in 2008 and has been an invaluable tool. It is a true time saver when processing semen, in not only…
Riverside Methodist Hospital Letter of Recommendation
February 16, 2012RE: SQA-V Letter of Recommendation to Medical Electronic Systems Dear Eric, I would like to advise you that our facility has been using the SQA-V for over two years to test patient’s semen analysis routinely in the laboratory. We find that it is the instrument of choice for this analysis and are happy…
Motility and Morphology Quality Control on the SQA-V Automated Semen Analyzer
DOWNLOAD SQA-V Motility_Morphology Technical Bulletin DOWNLOAD SQA-V Motility_Morphology Testing Instructions DOWNLOAD SQA-V Motility_Morphology Data Entry Spreadsheet OVERVIEW FROM INSTRUCTIONS DOCUMENT ABOVE: It is recommended that the facility run two (2) live human semen samples and one (1) negative control QC sample in replicates of five (5) to validate the Intra-Assay Precision & Sensitivity (CV %)…
Advantages of the SQA-V™ Sperm Quality Analyzer over the Microscope and CASA
Comparison of manual sperm analysis (WHO 5th) with two automated systems (DOWNLOAD HERE) Lammers J, Mansour W, Jean M, Barriere P, Freour TART laboratory, University Hospital of Nantes, France IntroductionSemen analysis is the first diagnostic tool to evaluate the male factor in an infertile couple. Conventional manual semen analysis is the routine method in most…
Process Improvement Through Automated Semen Analysis – 2011 AACC Abstract Presentation
Abstract Presented at the 2011 AACC Meeting in Atlanta, GA. DOWNLOAD STUDY HERE Semen analysis is one of the clinical laboratory tests which has significantly benefited from automation. Manual counting methods, motility and morphology testing often resulted in prolonged turn-around-times and left our Laboratory faced with challenges of maintaining consistency in result reporting among Technologists….