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Are not safe to use on human skin. |
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Used to clean the site before a routine venipuncture. |
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Best solution to use to clean up a blood spill. |
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Do not use bandages on children less than |
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Characteristics of a sharps container |
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Leak proof, puncture resistant, locking lids, hazard symbol. |
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Mandates that gloves are worn during phlebotomy procedures. |
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Determines the choice of needle gauge |
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The size and condition of the vein. |
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The most typical needles used in venipunctures |
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What keeps blood from clinging to the sides of the tube |
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How are manual differentials prepared? |
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Will yield a serum specimen |
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Prevents blood from clotting by inhabiting thrombin |
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Would most likely perform a test on a specimen collected in a yellow top tube(SPS) Sodium Polyanethol Sulfonate |
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Does not interfere with the action of calcium in the clotting process |
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is contained in a serum separator tube. |
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An anti-glycolytic agent. |
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Glass particles present in serum separator tubes accelerate clotting. |
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The blood culture tube is filled first when multiple tubes are filled from |
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Collected in a light blue top tube |
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Indicates that the tube contains EDTA |
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Lavender top tube stopper |
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There is no anticoagulant in a serum separator tube |
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Is meant to aid in smooth tube removal |
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flange on the evacuated tube holder |
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You are most likely to increase the chance of hemolyzing a specimen if you use what gauge needle to collect a specimen from a child? |
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Used to enlarge viens so they are easier to find and enter in the venipuncture. |
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Purpose of the tourniquet |
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Binds to calcium, inhibits thrombin, prevents coagulation, keeps blood from clotting. |
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Contains a substance that inhibits phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells (WBC;s) |
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Should be filled first when performing a capillary |
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Lavendar micro collection container |
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Blood smear made form blood collected in a lavender top tube should be prepared within ? hour of specimen collection |
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What is most likely to have a fatal consequence for a type and screen of a specimen |
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Avoid drawing this vein to avoid inadvertently puncturing an artery during venipuncture |
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What may occur when arm is lowered if the arm is bent up at the elbow to hold pressure on the gauze after venipuncture |
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Best specimen to use when establishing in patient reference ranges |
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Tests influenced by diurnal variation are often ordered |
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A falsely decreased test result can be caused by a drug that competes with the test reagents for the analytes being tested |
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Test that is most effected by altitude |
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A lipemic specimen is a clue that the patient was not |
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Drawing blood from an edematous extremity may cause |
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Analytes affected by muscular activity |
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Best place to collect a protime specimen from a patient with IVs in both arms is: |
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Avoid collecting a specimen from an arm on the same side as a ? because the is usually edematous. The effect of lympnostasis may cause erroneous results. The vein in that arm may collapse more easily. |
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What can result at the site of a venipuncture from touching the site after it has been cleaned |
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Can be caused by prolonged tourniquet application |
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A capillary skin puncture can replace a venipuncture in all of the following Except: |
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when a light blue top tube is ordered |
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IS necessary to control the depth of a lancet during skin puncture to avoid |
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Always collected first during a multi sample skin capillaries puncture |
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Maximum depth of an infant heel puncture recommended by CLSI is: |
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It is not a good idea to perform a skin puncture if the patient is/has |
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dehydrated, in shock, poor circulation |
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Blood cultures cannot be collected by skin puncture/capillaries due to: |
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the large volume of blood needed. |
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