User's Guide

14
Warnings
When running a patient test, do:
• Only use Universal Biosensors Xprecia Prime™ PT Test Strips. Other
test strips (including other Xprecia test strips) will not work with
Xprecia Prime™.
• Always follow the safety procedures and precautions listed here and
throughout the user guide, and those adopted by your healthcare
facility.
• Always wear a new pair of protective gloves when testing each
patient.
• Always clean and disinfect the meter between each use (for
instructions, see Page 31).
• Use only auto-disabling, single-use lancing devices.
• Keep the meter as still and level as possible during the test.
• Only use the system when the room temperature is between 15 °C
and 32 °C (59 °F to 89 °F) and the relative humidity is less than 80%.
(See “Technical specifications” on page 68 for Transport and Storage
conditions).
• Always store test strips in their original vial with the cap firmly snap
closed. Close the strip vial securely (until you hear a “click”) as soon
as you have removed your test strip. This will protect the remaining
strips in the vial.
• When you use a test strip vial for the first time, record the discard
date on the vial label in the space provided. This discard date is 3
months after the vial is first opened.
• Always store test strips between 2 °C and 30 °C (35.6 °F and 86 °F).
• Use a test strip within 10 minutes of removing it from the vial.
• Use each test strip only once and discard after use.
• Apply the blood sample to the test strip within 30 seconds of sample
collection.
• Apply the blood sample to the test strip within 4 minutes of being
prompted to do so by an “apply sample” message on the meter
screen.
• Collect only capillary blood (e.g. from a fingerstick) for testing.