Safety and Compliance | Patient Preparation | Routine Blood Collections | Special Collections | Processing Specimens |
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What is chlorine bleach?
This solution is used to clean a spilled specimen
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What is a First morning urine?
Urine specimen is used for a pregnancy test; Highly concentrated
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What is PT/INR?
A routine blood test for a patient taking warfarin sodium
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What is O - ?
Known as the universal donor
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What is a centrifuge?
Equipment used to separate specimens.
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What is Class C?
The Class of fire extinguisher used if the centrifuge catches on fire.
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What is grossly hemolyzed?
The patient's spun specimen has bright red serum, which is known as
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What is a Hematocrit?
The amount of packed RBCs in a sample.
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What is WBCs and platelets?
Contained within the Buffy coat.
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What is the 74mg/dL to 120mg/dL?
Fasting blood glucose range.
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What is Hepatitis B?
If a needlestick occurs, the technician is most at risk for exposure to this bloodborne pathogen?
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What peak?
This lithium level is draw shortly after the patient's dose
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What is a heel stick?
Technique used to collect blood on an 11 month old girl.
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What is Microbiology?
Laboratory department for processing blood cultures.
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What is Chemistry?
Laboratory department for a TSH.
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What is Chemistry?
The processing department for Cholesterol, Troponin and HDL blood levels.
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What is a Clean catch mid-stream urine?
Castile soap towelettes are needed to collect this specimen properly; Normally cultured
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What is the Acid Citrate Dextrose pale yellow tube?
The additive and tube for DNA/RNA Testing.
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What is AB + ?
Known as the universal recipient
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What is QNS?
Lab results for too little amount of blood
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What is a face mask?
Besides gloves, this PPE is also used with a pneumonia patient.
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What is You should ask your doctor about that?
The response to patient who ask why is their blood being taken
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What is 15 degrees, bevel up and parallel to the vein?
The angle, position, and insertion of the needle
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What is The Butterfly technique?
Technique used to collect samples from small, fragile veins.
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What is 30 minutes?
Amount of wait time before spinning an SST.
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