In addition to boasting a new design in line with the Max Generation, the STart Max has also been re-imagined in terms of functionality and practicality.

This small semi-automated instrument is just as impressive as the larger models: new quality control and calibration menus, and a large colour touchscreen to benefit from the standardised “Max Generation” graphical user interface & in terms of features nothing is missing either, with an effective traceability, the ability to archive patient results, quality controls, reagent lots, and a modern connectivity (to LIS and/or STA Coag Expert, with a USB port and the possibility to connect a handheld barcode reader)

Its design as a “drop” shape is a visual nod to the lineage of Stago logos, but it has also been thought to improve user comfort thanks for example to the position of the incubation and measuring positions, the reagents and pipette, and the tilted display.

The STart Max is therefore a combination of modernity and simplicity, as its previous model the STart 4, whose robustness made its high reputation over the decades.

These semi-automated analysers can therefore be found in labs of various size: with either small volume of coagulation tests or as back-up of larger Max Generation instruments. But they can also present some special interest for fully automated optical systems, who may sometimes need an alternative method for their problematic samples.

Production of the STart Max has started in August and we expect the first installations in September right after the CE marking. For more information, don’t hesitate to contact your local Stago distributor.

The STA Compact Max 3 offers significant performance improvements and includes the EPC (expert pre-analytical check) module.

This EPC module controls fill volumes of all types of tubes and detects haemolysed, icteric and lipemic samples, allowing the STA Compact Max 3 to check sample integrity to ensure quality results. It requires no additional plasma volume and does not affect throughput.

In addition to automating sample integrity checks, the STA Compact Max® 3 makes optimum use of patient samples. Stago employs a unique, mechanical viscosity-based detection system in all its systems offering a reliable-result guarantee, since measurements are not affected by optical interference, as well as optimum sensitivity for weak clot detection.

The STA Compact Max® 3 has an innovative hardware design that makes it more user-friendly and efficient, to optimise productivity while keeping user maintenance operations and manual interventions to a minimum (with a PSR [single resolution pipettor] module and new cap piercing needle).

Its hardware innovations are supported by new software tools, allowing your laboratory to benefit from Stago’s expertise and quality commitment. Traceability has been improved, to provide a verifiable record of each variable used to obtain patients’ results, while factor parallelism, programmable and automated reflex testing rules and clinical algorithms mean you benefit daily from the know-how of recognised experts.

The STA Compact Max® 3 has the largest sample, reagent and disposables capacity in its class, offering greater autonomy. Its systems are built around a random-access architecture, allowing effective STAT management, promising a fast turnaround time for urgent samples and ensuring the kind of outstanding performance you have come to expect from a Stago analyser.

The STA Compact Max® 3 also benefits from Stago’s innovative and unparalleled support service, to help our customers guarantee operational certainty. This includes remote diagnosis and troubleshooting as well as access to the automated Stago externalised IQC platform: My Expert QC.

Sample and reagent management has also been improved and simplified in the STA Compact Max® 3 for even greater efficiency. Routine and specialised tests can be performed side by side and the wide range of ready-to-use and highly stable liquid Stago reagents minimises preparation time.

Boasting a unique Stago pre-calibration function, fully automatic barcoded reagent management and the ability to manage multiple reagent lots at the same time, these systems are designed to meet the challenges of today’s clinical laboratories. These features are supported by Stago accreditation tools to ensure simple and seamless compliance with quality standards.

The STA R Max 3 is a versatile analyser that will adapt to any type of laboratory set-up, for an equivalent performance whether used alone or integrated into an automated track. It is supported by a range of reagents offering a comprehensive menu of routine and specialised tests, ensuring effective TAT (turnaround time) management.

Like its predecessor, the STA R Max 3 has an EPC module for checking sample integrity that controls fill volumes of all types of tubes and detects haemolysed, icteric and lipemic samples to ensure quality results. It requires no additional plasma volume and does not affect throughput.

In addition to automating sample integrity checks, the STA R Max 3 makes optimum use of patient samples. Stago employs a unique, mechanical viscosity-based detection system in all its systems offering a reliable-result guarantee, since measurements are not affected by optical interference. In addition, this detection system offers optimum sensitivity for weak clot detection.

The STA R Max 3 is also equipped with STA Coag Expert, allowing it to validate results automatically and making it easier to manage quality control and specialised tests due to integrated expertise rules.

Its hardware innovations are supported by new software tools, allowing your laboratory to benefit from Stago’s expertise and quality commitment. Traceability has been improved, to provide a verifiable record of each variable used to obtain patients’ results, while factor parallelism, programmable and automated reflex testing rules and clinical algorithms mean you benefit daily from the know-how of recognised experts.

The STA R Max 3 has the largest sample, reagent and disposables capacity in its class, promising greater autonomy and effective STAT management.

To assist its users, the STA R Max 3 also benefits from Stago’s innovative, unparalleled support service. This includes remote diagnosis and troubleshooting as well as access to the automated Stago externalised IQC platform: My Expert QC.

Boasting a unique Stago pre-calibration function, fully automatic barcoded reagent management and the ability to manage multiple reagent lots at the same time, these systems are designed to meet the challenges of today’s clinical laboratories. These features are supported by Stago accreditation tools to ensure simple and seamless compliance with quality standards.

The STA R Max 3 also offers two new features, introduced in response to feedback from customers.

It has a VAD (visual alarm device) that shows the analyser’s operating status. This is a particularly useful luminous signal in everyday lab operations and increases productivity, since users are notified more rapidly when the analyser requires human intervention. It also minimises analyser downtime.

A new height-adjustable computer desk makes the workstation much more user-friendly for operators. The desk now adapts to the size of each user, however tall, and to their working position.

Finally, the STA R Max 3 allows labs to process data more securely, in compliance with cybersecurity rules, so technical teams can work in complete peace of mind.