Benson Viscometers designs and manufactures the UK’s leading blood plasma viscometer. There are over 60 Hospitals in the UK and Ireland using BV systems to screen and monitor patients with inflammatory conditions including those caused by Myeloma, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Macroglobulinaemia and Polymyalgia Rheumatica. More Laboratories are switiching to plasma viscosity tests as they are unaffected by patient anaemia and polycythaemia, unlike erythrocyte sedimentation. Moreover, patient monitoring is not influenced by drugs such as salicylates and steroids. Plasma Viscosity results only improve with the arrest of the inflammatory process The BV1 single sample plasma viscometer is ideal for the pathology laboratory or speciality clinic looking for immediate results on 1 to 50 plasma samples a day. For the busy laboratory, the BV200 automated multi-sample plasma viscometer has a load and walk away capacity from 1 to 180 patient samples Viscometers of Choice for Monitoring all Inflammatory Conditions ©Benson Viscometers Ltd 2010
The BV1 single sample plasma viscometer is ideal for the pathology laboratory looking for immediate results on 1 to 50 plasma samples a day. It is perfect for all situations where small test volumes are critical since the BV1 only required 80 micro litres of plasma taken from a routine full blood count collection tube. The BV1 system and interactive user interface have been designed in keeping with the stringent requirements…
The BV200 automated multi-sampling plasma viscometer calculates the PV of samples within 30 seconds of the tube being detected by the system. It can process up to 180 samples, displays the PV on the local PC, and automatically makes the information available to the hospital computer system. For the busy laboratory, this load-and-walk-away system saves time and eliminates many manual errors. The automated bar code facility, 't…
