CPT review

What gauge multi-sample needle is considered to be standard?

21

Sodium Fluoride preserves glucose for how many days?

3

How many minutes does normal coagulation take in a red topped tube?

30-60

How many hours before a blood test should a patient discontinue the use of medications known to interfere with blood tests?

4-24

What does OSHA do?

A federal agency that oversees working conditions, with the mission to protect employees from work-related hazards.

Phlebotomist

An individual trained and skilled in phlebotomy

nosocomial infection

An infection that is acquired in a hospital setting

Fomite

Any inanimate object to which infectious material adheres and can be transmitted.

A profile is also called

CMP (comprehensive metabolic panel)

A red top tube is usually drawn for which lab department?

Chemistry

Which lab section performs blood pregnancy tests?

Chemistry

What special handling does an ABG require?

Chilling

Medical Asepsis

Clean technique; involves procedures and practices that reduce the number and transfer of pathogens (hand washing, wearing gloves)

Which is a test of the urinary system?

Creatinine clearance

Pulmonary Circulation carries ___________________________.

Deoxygenated blood to the lungs and oxygenated blood from the lungs.

Glass particle in serum separator tubes

Enhance clotting

What does the CLSI

Establishes rules to ensure the safety, standards, and integrity of all testing performed on human specimens.

Blood cultures are used to diagnose ________________.

FUO

Arteries have valves that prevent the blood from flowing back. (T/F)

False

Cortisol peaks late in the afternoon? (T/F)

False

Give an example of an outpatient facility

Family practice, ultrasound, colonoscopy

What does FUO stand for?

Fever unknown origin

What are the 3 sections of a Clin. Lab.?

General/ routine chemistry, endocrinology-study of hormones, immunology- study of immune system and antibodies, pharmacology- study of drugs, toxicology- study of drugs and poisons

Ammonia Chemical Test would be done with a _______ tube.

Green

List the 7 different sections of a Clinical Laboratory

Hematology, Coagulation, Chemistry, Toxicology, Urinalysis, Immunology, Immunohematology, Microbiology

The most common complication of phlebotomy.

Hematoma

Which would be considered a post-analytical error?

Improper use of serum separator

Phlebotomy

Incision of a vein

JCAHO is the

Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

What tube is used for a WCB differential?

Lavender

What is a condition that could cause leukopenia?

Leukemia

On-site labs are called

POLs / hospital labs

What does POCT stand for?

Point-of-care testing

A group of tests collected as one unit:

Profile

Which is not a reason for failure to collect blood?

Pt. drank too much liquid

Which tube is sometimes called a serum separator tube?

Red/gray

Which is the best tube for collecting an ethanol specimen?

Sodium Fluoride

Assay

The presence of a substance and the amount of that substance. Thus, an assay may be done for example to determine the level of thyroid hormones in the blood of a person suspected of being hypothyroid (or hyperthyroid). The biological or pharmacological potency of a drug.

What are 3 different ways that the laboratories look at the urine within the Urinalysis section of a Clinical Lab?

To detect renal and metabolic diseases, to diagnose diseases of the kidneys or urinary tract, to monitor pts. with diabetes.

Glycolysis occurs faster in newborns (T/F)

True

Taking aspirin is most likely going to affect a BT test. (T/F)

True

The first tube in the order of draw for cap specimens are lavender. (T/F)

True

What are "waived" labs.?

Urine dipstick/ reagent tablets, Fecal occult blood packets, urine pregnancy testing kits using color comparison charts, Centrifuged microhematocrits, point-of-care blood glucose determination testing

An NP culture swab is collected to help diagnose

Whooping cough

Airborne Precautions- transmitted via the

air (TB)

What kind of valve is the tricuspid valve?

atrioventricle

Standard Precautions is an infection control method designed to prevent direct contact with , other body , and by using barrier protection and work control practices.

blood, fluid, mucous membranes

Droplet Precautions - transmitted via the

cough, sneeze, talking

Which represents the proper order of blood flow?

from arterioles to capillaries to venules

Give an example of an inpatient facility

hospital, rehab, pregnancy

the chain of infection includes

infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host

outpatient facilities

is any health care service provided to a patient who is not admitted to a facility. Outpatient care may be provided in a doctor's office, clinic, the patient's home or hospital outpatient department.

Inpatient facilities

is care given to a patient admitted to a hospital, extended care facility, nursing home or other facility. Long term care is the range of services typically provided at skilled nursing, intermediate-care, personal care or eldercare facilities.

Which order of draw is correct.

red, green, lavender

Off-site labs are called

reference labs

The pulmonic valve is situated between ____________________.

right ventricle and pulmonary artery

Serology is also called

study of serum

What does CLSI stand for?

the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute