Cross contamination (other using my coagulant machine)

[zipper2]

What my question is is the use of my coagulant xs machine
Manufactures fine print says not to and yet i spoke to pharmacist
i bought it from and they have inr's done there on a machine by
different people,he felt it was the proper channels of cleaning it
as dealing with blood.
Why i ask is my 83 year old mother moved here last year and is on warfarin
do to heart attack @ stroke in 94 i hate driving her to the lab and seeing her
tortured.
This doesn't effect my health insurance either as they don't get involved
with payment of my strips etc. and further more my doc here will give her
a perscription for her own unit and strips,but how do some of you see it
as sharing my machine,i mean i know she has no blood diseases or
contaminations and i know the fine print says no,but then they do it with
alot of people in the pharmacy

 

[Bina]

I don't see any problem with sharing the monitor. If blood is leaked or spilled out of the strip area the manual has cleaning instructions.

 

[Ross]

Blanche and Al share a machine, clinics share machines. Your fine.

 

[catwoman]

I'm not sure I understand the concern about "contamination." Is the concern about any iota of one person's blood -- and thus INR level -- affecting that of another person whose blood sample is being tested on the same machine?

Ross has hit the nail on the head: Clinics test different samples on the same machine.

 

[Jkm7]

During the brief time I was on coumadin, the clinic where I was tested used the same machine for all their patients. They certainly can't have a separate one for everyone. Should be fine.

 

[zipper2]

GEEESH i knew that (joking) i just needed to see it here on the posts
kind ofa confirmation cus only vr knows for sure the facts.
thanks alot everyone for your time to answer my question, silly or not

 

[Bina]

Deb, no questions are too silly to post here.
The only way that you could cross contaminate with bacteria or infection, would be if you forgot to change your lancet needle and used the same one as Mom.
Wash, rinse, and dry hands well.

 

[Ross]

Deb, no questions are too silly to post here.
The only way that you could cross contaminate with bacteria or infection, would be if you forgot to change your lancet needle and used the same one as Mom.
Wash, rinse, and dry hands well.

Well if she should somehow smear her blood on the machine without cleaning it down, would be a possibility, but I would hope she's smart enough to clean it up before using it.