Abstract: An amperometric sensor suitable for determining the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in a sample, the sensor comprising a ferricyanide compound which, in reduced form, functions as a mediator specific to hydrogen peroxide.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 21, 2005
Date of Patent:
October 27, 2009
Assignee:
Drew Scientific Holdings, Inc.
Inventors:
Kim King Tong Lau, Jonathan Mark Slater
Abstract: An apparatus is provided for hematology testing, which has a sensing unit defining a counting orifice for the flow of a blood sample through the counting orifice to analyze the blood sample, and a pump unit having three syringes. A first syringe is coupled in fluid communication with the sensing unit on the inlet side of the counting orifice for injecting a stream of blood sample through the counting orifice. A second syringe is coupled in fluid communication with the sensing chamber on the inlet side of the counting orifice for simultaneously injecting a sheath of fluid surrounding the sample stream on the inlet side of the counting orifice. And a third syringe is coupled to the sensing chamber on the outlet side of the counting orifice for aspirating a sheath of fluid from the sensing chamber surrounding the sample stream on the outlet side of the counting orifice.