Testing tool assistance CRP-Screen

Wash your hands thoroughly. Use soap and warm water.
Dry your hand with clean towel.

Prepare the test device and capillary pipette: Take them out from the protective pouch (tear at the notch) and place them in the reach of your hands (you will need them later). Discard the desiccant bag.

Open the diluent dropper vial: Remove the screw cap of the vial and keep it nearby.

Prepare the lancet. Hold the lancing device without touching the trigger button. Unlock the cap twisting it off ¼ turn until you feel it separates from the lancing device and then continue twisting it (2-3 rotations). Don’t pull just twist and discard the cap when fi nished.

Clean the end of the middle or ring finger with cotton damped with alcohol. Massage the chosen finger towards the tip for 10 to 15 seconds to enhance the blood flow.

Prick the fi nger: put the lancing device fi rmly against the side of the previously cleaned fi nger, and press the release trigger button. the lancet will automatically retract into the body of the device. Gently massage the fi nger to create a nice roudn blood droplet.

Collect the blood with the capillary pipette: Gently touch the blood droplet with the open end of the capillary pipette. It must be fi lled until the line indicated on the capillary tube. Do not press the balloon, it fi lls by itself. Make another blood droplet if the line is not reached. As far as possible, avoid air bubbles.

Place the collected blood sample into the previously opened diluent dropper vial by pressing the bulb of the pipette. Make sure that the complete volume of blood sample is added into the diluent dropper vial by pressing 2-3 times the bulb of the pipette and therefore rinsing the inner part of the pipette with diluent solution. Replace the screw cap on the diluent dropper vial and mix thoroughly.

Break the tip of the dropper bottle containing the diluted blood sample. Hold it vertically and slowly add exactly 4 drops in the sample well of the device with an interval of 2-3 seconds between each drop.

Read the result after 5 minutes. Do not interpret after 10 minutes.