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...tens of thousands, such diagnostic tests are now being run routinely in 80 U.S. hospitals, which have installed the machine called SMA-12 (sequential multiple analyzer, with twelve channels), produced by Technicon Instruments Corp. The saving in time and money to hospitals and patients is growing steadily...
...generally cost a patient from $2 to $5; half a dozen tests may cost a package price of $15 or so. The old-fashioned process is also costly in technicians' time, while doctor and patient wait hours or days for the results. Dr. Albert L. Chasson told a Technicon symposium last week in Manhattan that the SMA-12, which he operates at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., is testing 10,000 blood samples a year at a price to the patient of $9 for the dozen chemical determinations. Only one technician is needed during a day when the machine...
Product of inventive research physicians and Technicon technologists, the autoanalyzer performs many delicate and highly sophisticated chemical and physical tasks in less time than it takes to describe them. First, the 3-milliliter blood sample (less than a teaspoonful) is centrifuged to get rid of the cells; the analyzer works with the serum that remains. The machine divides the serum into twelve portions and sends them racing through the plastic tubes by power from roller pumps...
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