i-STAT Ceramic Conditioning Cartridge(CCC)
The i-STAT Ceramic Conditioning Cartridge consists of an aluminum base that supports a ceramic “strip.” The strip is a white strip of Alumina that is held down by a brass retainer and retainer screw. The ceramic cartridge may be used up to 50 times before the strip is worn and needs to be rotated or up to 200 times before the strip must be replaced.
Codes 20, 27, 41, and 87 can be caused by poor contact that can sometimes be corrected by conditioning the pins in the analyzer using the i-STAT ceramic conditioning cartridge.
When displayed Poor Contact Detected.The system detected a contact problem with one of theconnector pins while reading the identification chip in the immunoassay cartridge. This can sometimes be corrected by conditioning the pins in the analyzer using the i-STAT ceramic conditioning cartridge.