The Shandon Excelsior is the new center of excellence in tissue processing.
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Product Detail
The Shandon Excelsior Tissue Processor is the most advanced tissue processor using traditional reagents today. It comes equipped with unique and outstanding features to provide benefits of safety, ease of use, increased productivity, reagent cost savings and quality of results to the user.
Safety.
Built-in Downdraft Ventilation which minimizes the operators? exposure to hazardous vapors.
Fumes are vented and absorbed through a Potassium Permanganate filter before getting into open air.
Reagent storage cabinet is built to enhance safety and is vented through 2 additional filters for further fume control.
Specimen safety and protection is accomplished by battery back-up.
2 remote alarms to signal possible problems
Automatic underfill recovery to finish processing in the safest environment possible.
Ease of use.
Allows for automatic in-process reagent rotation.
Flexible enough to accommodate most commercial 3.8 to 5 liter reagent bottles.
Easy-to-read screens with colorful graphics
Easy programming and operation.
User-friendly software is like having an electronic user?s manual at your fingertip
International icons alert operators to anything that needs attention.
Increased Productivity.
Systematic logging and reporting of quality control data, event records and program information.
Laboratory Information Management System interface capability.
Preheating option for reagents allows for more consistent processing and rapid biopsy runs.
Three distinct fill levels in the chamber to shorten processing times.
Organized and random baskets are microwavable and designed to be used in conjunction with microwave pre-fixation, if desired.
Reagent Cost Savings.
Unique reagent monitoring and management system.
Monitors quality of the first alcohol by measuring its specific gravity and alerts operator when it is no longer usable.
Quality of Results.
Circular design allows for greater temperature uniformity.
No hot spots and even distribution of reagents enable consistent processing of specimens.
Continuous agitation to circulate reagents freely around specimens.
Organized basket is designed for maximum reagent infiltration around specimens by not allowing cassette bunching.
Other features of the Shandon Excelsior include:
Organized basket to process 222 cassettes and random basket to process up to 300 cassettes (Refer to Application Note "Shandon Excelsior Random Basket").
Sloped lid design allows for excess condensation removal during processing.
Glass lid allows for viewing during processing.
12 customized programs and 3 flush options.
3 wax baths.
Multilingual.
7 password protected areas.
Remote Monitoring / Diagnostics.
Software Update for the Shandon Excelsior Tissue Processor
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