Additives
What is in the Pink and Purple tubes?
EDTA
OSHA requires that a sharps container be changed when?
When 3/4 full
What tube is Sodium Heparin?
Dark Green
What is in the Tiger Top?
Clot activator and gel for serum separation
An open container is spilled on the floor in the clinic waiting area, what should the phlebotomist should use?
Material Safety Data Sheet
What is in the orange tube?
Thrombin
What comes after your grey tube?
Royal Blue or Tan
What most important thing to do if the phlebotomist sustains a sharps injury?
File an incident report
What additives are in the red glass top tube?
None
After a venipuncture, a patient experienced serve nerve damage and lost feeling in their fingers, what actions by the phlebotomist most likely occurred?
What does the Royal Blue tube test?
Trace Metals
A phlebotomist in a doctors office needs to perform a venipuncture on a patient who has been diagnosed with SARS, which transmission based precaution should the phlebotomist take?
Droplet