One of the oldest clinical laboratory methods and one that has not been changed over the years is the Westergren ESR
procedure. Commercial interests and growing sample num-bers have, however, led to the development of high through-put analyzers also in ESR analytics. One of the newer tech-niques is the StaRRsed Auto-Compact analyzer which is capable of analyzing 135 samples per hour if the 30 min mode is used. This is, of course, an attractive alternative to
the older methods that require a lot of hands on time and manual work