Patent ID: 7875241

Claim:
A stained blood smear preparation apparatus comprising: a stained specimen preparation part comprising a pipette for dispensing blood to a slide glass, a smearing part for preparing a blood smear of the blood on the slide glass, and a staining part for staining said blood smear, thereby providing a stained blood smear slide glass formed with a stained blood smear; a keeping part for storing a plurality of the stained blood smear slide glasses prepared in said stained specimen preparation part; a transport part for transporting said stained blood smear slide glass to said keeping part or an external apparatus; and a control part that decides a destination of said stained blood smear slide glass from among said keeping part and said external apparatus and controls the transport part such that the transport part transports said stained blood smear to the destination, wherein said control part acquires specimen information from a computer communicably connected with said stained blood smear preparation apparatus for deciding a destination of said stained blood smear slide glass based on acquired specimen information and comprises a memory storing a blood smear preparation condition corresponding to said specimen information for selecting corresponding said blood smear preparation condition based on acquired specimen information and preparing said blood smear on said slide glass based on selected said blood smear preparation condition.