fbpx

Can Clinical Viscosity Help Us To Manage Covid-19?

In the year since Covid-19 brought the world to its knees, a number of studies have found strong evidence of a link between Clinical Viscosity and the worst cases of the virus

Find out more

Global Locations

We've supplied Clinical Viscometers to, and continue to support, facilities in the USA, the UK and the rest of the world! Find out more about where our analysers can be found here

Find out more

We are Clinical Viscosity

Benson Viscometers is the UK, Europe, USA and World leader in the provision of clinical viscometers that measure the viscosity of human biological fluids: blood plasma, blood serum, whole blood and synovial fluid.

Find out more

Viscometers for Screening Patient Hyperviscosity

Benson Viscometers is a British company specialising in the design, development and manufacture of high-quality clinical viscometers and blood measuring equipment.

Find out more

What is Plasma Viscometry?

Plasma Viscosity, gives a measure of the acute phase response; i.e. the increase in assorted plasma proteins and fibrinogen in blood plasma stimulated by a variety of causes (e.g. infection, neoplasm or inflammatory disease).

Find out more

What are the benefits of Plasma Viscosity?

Use of full blood count tubes eliminating additional ESR sample. Suitable for Paediatrics and Adults. Fast 15-minute turn around time from sample receipt to results, has a single reference range which is unaffected by other factors. Fully traceable, repeatable and reproducible. Can be analysed up to 7 days after sample taken.

Find out more

BV1 Plasma Viscometer

Benson viscometers BV1 is suitable for up to 50 samples a day and provides an excellent turnaround time from sample to results.The BV1 also uses only 80 micro litres of plasma, allowing analysis using full blood count tubes and making the test suitable for both adult and paediatric patients.

Find out more
bv200 benson viscometer

BV200 Plasma Viscometer

Benson viscometers BV200 is suitable for over 50 samples per day and can be loaded with up to 180 patient samples at once. The BV200 provides fast turnaround time for samples and can display results in under 1 minute when presented to the analyser, results can then be printed or transferred to your LIMS. Automatic control processes every 10 samples to ensure that every patient sample tested is continually monitored.

Find out more

Partnership Contracts

Benson Viscometers provides a flexible approach to help assist with the integration of plasma viscosity into your organization. We can offer a full range of packages to suit the needs of small and large laboratories, including reagents, maintenance and scheduled servicing by our highly experienced engineers. Benson viscometers also provide a host of support documentation and on-site training to nurture the development of knowledge of plasma viscosity.

Find out more
Viscometry Products
Sign up to newsletter
Support & Downloads

ABOUT CLINICAL VISCOMETRY

Benson Viscometers is a British company specialising in the design, development and manufacture of high-quality clinical viscometers and blood measuring equipment. At Benson Viscometers we believe in engineering excellence, technical innovation and quality of service.

The range includes a fully automated walk away high volume analyser (BV200) capable of processing 60 samples per hour for large laboratories and a semi automated analyser (BV1) suitable for small laboratories performing up to 50 samples a day.

The company also supplies a full range of control and maintenance reagents to give operators confidence in their results.

Read More

QUALITY ASSURANCE

For confidence in your results

An increasing number of laboratories are electing to use Clinical Viscosity routinely in preference to erythrocyte sedimentation testing (ESR). This is because Clinical Viscosity results are easier to interpret and results can be fully validated.

Assured by UK NEQAS

Read More

WHAT THE PROFESSIONALS SAY

“The Isle of Man was the first site worldwide to purchase a Benson Viscometer and both the instrument and company have come a long way since its inception. We turned our back on ESR’s over 30 years ago and our current Benson Viscometers perform over 20000 plasma viscosities per annum with very little downtime. Given our somewhat remote location accuracy, reliability and performance are vitally important and Benson Viscometers meet these requirements admirably.”

Paul Woods CSci FIBMS,Chief Biomedical Scientist, Haematology Dept., Noble’s Hospital, Isle of Man

Read More

SOME PLASMA VISCOMETRY FACTS

  • Patient plasma viscosity (PV) is unaffected by patient anaemia or polycythaemia
  • Samples can be analysed up to one week after centrifugation
  • Test results are not affected by anti-inflammatory drugs
  • Patient PV is not affected by age (>3 years), gender or smoking
  • A rise of PV in the third trimester of pregnancy is predictable
  • The only diagnostic test for plasma hyperviscosity

Who we work with…