Was there more than a name change involved in transitioning from StatSpin to Iris Sample Processing?
Pasakarnis: When I first joined the company 4 years ago, customers would tell me how much they loved the StatSpin Express 2 units used in many of their laboratories to provide serum or plasma in just 2 minutes. This addressed their need for stat cardiac, chemistry, and coagulation testing. But they would all say that they needed to run more samples and larger tubes. So we developed the StatSpin Express 3 rapid centrifuge that holds eight tubes up to 10 mL, and can still prepare serum or plasma from whole blood in 2 minutes. At the same time, laboratories have started to change their processing methods to address the need for speed. Turnaround time (TAT) has become the tool to monitor laboratory performance, and that is where the StatSpin Express 3 has made a big difference.
