The ADVIA Centaur^® CP Immunoassay System is a mid-volume, high-throughput bench top system that enhances your in-house test capability. With its broad menu and short Turn Around Times (TAT), you can do more — without compromising efficiency, productivity, or quality. And it features the superior sensitivity and specificity you expect of Chemiluminescent with Advanced Acridinium Ester Technology.Technical specifications.

Patient Care
The ADVIA Centaur CP Immunoassay system allows your lab to provide excellent patient care by bringing a wide range of immunoassays onto a single workstation, including infectious disease and Serum HER-2/neu.

• Comprehensive disease state testing menu
• Disposable pipette tips
• STAT testing and test prioritization
• TAT in as little as 15 minutes for most assays
• Sample and reagent bubble detection, and sample clot detection
• Constant visibility to time to result for each test

Increased Productivity
The ADVIA Centaur CP Immunoassay System raises the level of productivity and increases the efficiency of operations within your lab with these features:

• Up to 180 tests/hour throughput
• 400-test walkaway capacity
• Always accessible and visible sample compartment with a 84-sample capacity
• No-pause loading/unloading of samples and supplies
• 15 refrigerated reagents onboard with automatic mixing and a 10-reagent compartment for ancillaries such as diluents
• Programmable automatic dilutions, repeats and reflex testing

Ease of Use
The ADVIA Centaur CP Immunoassay System was designed with ease-of-use in mind. It allows for true continuous operation with the following features:

• Ready-to-use, barcoded reagents are automatically programmed into the software with no operator intervention
• Status bar warns operator when any supply or reagent is getting low before system processing is interrupted
• Automatic operator warnings included when calibration is close to expiring and when the need to perform maintenance is upcoming
• Simple maintenance requiring minimal hands-on time
• Intuitive touch screen operation, Windows^®-based software

Quality
The ADVIA Centaur CP Immunoassay System uses the same time-proven Chemiluminescent Acridinium Ester technology as the rest of the ADVIA Centaur family, and the same features to maximize quality:

• Disposable pipette tips (zero carry over)
• Automated clot detection
• User-defined automatic reflex and repeat testing to insure accuracy
• Sample and reagent bubble detection to further ensure quality results 

Flexible Solutions
The ADVIA Centaur CP Immunoassay System has the capacity to fit in several different scenarios. The ADVIA Centaur family of systems allow you to run tests from the satellite laboratory to the core laboratory utilizing the same technology and reporting the same quality results.

• Medium volume laboratories increase productivity through one platform
• Satellite and STAT facilities reduce time to result
• Specialty testing laboratories provide minimum TAT with a menu of specific assays
• Large primary and smaller secondary laboratories have the convenience and uniformity of results with the same reagents and consumables as the ADVIA Centaur XP Immunoassay System

Overview
System description Random access immunoassay system
Throughput Up to 180 tests per hour in batch or random access mode
Time to first result 15 minutes
Assays on board 15
Total assay capability 100


Samples and Sample Handling
Sample carriers 5 mL, 7 mL, 10 mL, 1mL cups, microtainer tubes
Sample capacity 84 samples, continuous loading in 12-position sample racks
Walk away time One hour minimum
Stat handling Dedicated STAT position plus additional keyboard option for scheduling STATS individually
Sample types Serum, plasma, urine, CSF
Sample integrity control Pressure based level sensing, short sample detection and flagging, clot detection and flagging, foamy sample detection
Sample carryover Eliminated by consumable ADVIA Centaur pipette tips
Pipette tips ADVIA Centaur type, 480 on board, automatic tracking and flagging of inventory


Barcodes
Formats supported Code 128, Code 39, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5 (any or all symbologies may be active at one time)


Reagents and Reagent Handling
Reagent cooling 10°C +-2
Reagent integrity control Barcode reagent identification, automatic inventory tracking and flagging, calibration validity tracked and flagged, reagent on board residency tracked and flagged, reagent expired/low flags
Reagent ancillaries 10-position cooled storage for ADVIA Centaur reagent ancillaries


Cuvettes
Type ADVIA Centaur cuvettes
On board capacity 400


Continuous Operation
Loading/unloading of samples and consum-ables do not cause system interruption Includes: Sample racks, STATS, reagent packs, ancillary packs, reaction cuvettes, sample pipette tips, calibrators, controls, wash fluid, water


User Interface
Operating system Microsoft® Windows® XP English Professional
Monitor 15" diagonal LCD touch sensitive screen


Results Editing
Viewing and editing Results available at all times, sortable by SID test and date, user has the option to evaluate, verify and release results prior to printing or reporting to LIS.
User edited results are flagged on audit trail


Assay Calibration
Identification Barcode labels containing lot specific data, human readable and system readable through hand held barcode scanner
Status Calibration Status logged and flagged, including advance notice of pending expiration, user-defined processes for response to calibration expiration


Quality Control
Package ADVIA® QC package for long term monitoring including L-J plots and Westgard rules
Levels 0-9 control levels per assay
Control definitions User defined
Results storage 65,000 control, patient and event results can be stored on line (approx 3 months data)


Environmental
Operating temperature 18-30°C
Operating humidity 20%-85% RH non condensing
Electrical 100-240v, 50/60Hz
Dimensions Height: 32 in/81 cm
Width: 43 in/107 cm
Depth: 29 in/74 cm
(excludes monitor and accessories)
Weight 366lbs/166kg (includes monitor and accessories)