Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing – Composition for standardization – calibration – simulation,...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-20
2007-11-20
Wallenhorst, Maureen M. (Department: 1743)
Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing
Composition for standardization, calibration, simulation,...
C252S408100
Reexamination Certificate
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11169158
ABSTRACT:
A method for screening newborns using electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. The method improves the current protocols that use tandem mass spectrometry by assuring accurate and consistent results at the clinical level through enhanced quality controls and quality assurance protocols as applied to the scan profiling and sample preparation of blood spots from newborns. Specific additives are used in precise concentrations of internal standards, employing detailed controls adapted to distinguish twenty metabolites, which are scanned and vigorously compared to known spectra results. Revealing peaks, metabolite concentration, and scan intensities in the quality assurance steps are then compared to a range of thresholds to determine whether or not the sample is contaminated, drug-ridden, diagnosable, or unacceptable. All spectra results and quality assurance flags are organized in spreadsheet form and exported to a database where values are compiled and stored for daily output results and trend analysis. The method provides for high-throughput and quality results, having a consistent predictability for genetically testing newborns efficiently and accurately.
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Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
Herschbach Jarrell Brenda
Lyon Charles E.
Pediatrix Screening, Inc.
Wallenhorst Maureen M.
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