Bayer HealthCare Rapidlab 800 Blood Glucose Meter User Manual


 
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a. Fill a syringe with reagent-quality water.
b. Attach a capillary adapter or a piece of 0.016-inch diameter sample tubing
to the syringe.
c. Attach the tubing or capillary adapter to the port and flush the water
through the port.
7. Clean the glass sapphire window with a lint-free tissue or swab soaked with
cleaning solution. Wash the window with reagent-quality water.
8. Blot the exterior of the window dry with lint-free tissue.
9. Install a new gasket on the sample chamber:
a. Soak the gasket and the grooved area of the sample chamber with reagent
quality water to facilitate the installation.
b. Wipe both sides with a lint-free tissue soaked in cleaning solution.
c. Wipe both sides with a lint-free tissue soaked in reagent-quality water.
d. Blot both sides dry with lint-free tissue.
10. Clean the metal plate:
a. Wipe both sides of the plate with a lint-free tissue soaked in cleaning
solution.
b. Wipe both sides with a lint-free tissue soaked in reagent-quality water.
c. Blot both sides dry with lint-free tissue.
11. Clean the bubble trap:
a. Visually inspect the bubble trap seal on the outlet port of the bubble trap.
Replace the seal if it is torn or frayed.
b. Push a 0.016-inch diameter clot-removal line into the metal tubing of the
outlet port of the bubble trap.
c. Flush the bubble trap by injecting reagent-quality water into the metal port
using a syringe and a separate piece of tubing or capillary adapter as shown
in Figure 3-15.
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Bubble Trap
Inlet Port
Outlet Port
Seal
Tubing
Syringe
d. Wipe the exterior of the bubble trap with a lint-free tissue soaked in reagent
quality water.
e. Blot the exterior dry with lint-free tissue.