AggRAM Proves Its Worth at Leading Oxford Lab

The leading AggRAM platelet aggregometer from Helena Biosciences has become indispensable for one of the UK’s top haemophilia and thrombosis centres.

The Oxford Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre is an internationally-renowned tertiary referral unit, offering clinical and laboratory services for the diagnosis of a wide range of bleeding disorders and thrombotic problems.

The lab has been using Helena’s AggRAM, a market-leading, four or eight-channel platelet aggregation and ristocetin cofactor analyser, since April 2007. It boasts a number of unique features, including the ability to overlay up to 20 curves from previous tests onto the existing sample curve, allowing quick and efficient comparisons of patient results.

The AggRAM software’s data handling and analysis is fully-comprehensive, including in-depth analysis features such as rapid and automatic calculation of slope, time taken to maximum aggregation, lag phase and secondary slope.

Patient demographics can be entered either before or after the results have been produced and the AggRAM supports a bi-directional LIMS interface.

Quality control is implemented with a Levy-Jennings graphical display based on Westgard rules. The instrument is also very compact, with the footprint the size of a hardback book.