Developed and manufactured in the UK by Prospect Diagnostics, Prowipes are already listed in the NHS Pasa procurement catalogue
Prospect Diagnostics says that once you've used its new Prowipes, you'll wonder how you managed without them.
One side of these novel wipes has a lint free, absorbent surface for wiping excess blood off microcuvettes, capillaries, tips and nozzles, and the reverse has a hydrophobic coating allowing blood or QC materials to be dropped onto the surface for sampling.
Supplied in a purpose-designed, refillable dispenser the deceptively simple wipes are convenient to use in any point of care or laboratory situation where specimens are measured from microcuvettes, capillaries or specialised sampling devices.
Most point of care analysers need samples to be presented by means of a microcuvette, capillary or pipette tip.
To avoid instrument blockages and to ensure accurate measurements it is essential that excess blood is removed from the external surfaces.
The lint free absorbent material on one surface of the Prowipe ensures simple, safe and efficient wiping.
The hydrophobic coating on the reverse side is invaluable when microcuvettes, capillaries and tips need to be filled from a venous sample or bottle.
A drop of sample placed on the specially developed surface remains completely intact, allowing any type of sampling device to be filled cleanly and efficiently.
This is particularly convenient for quality control and EQA samples avoiding the need for POC co-ordinators to improvise with tissues and pieces of hydrophobic bench coating.
Simple, safe, convenient and economical, Prowipes are supplied in refillable dispensers each containing 100 wipes.
