EKG
Chest electrode placed on the 5th intercostal space, where it intersects an imaginary line drawn straight down from the midclavicular line
What is v4?
Membrane that covers the heart
What is pericardium?
This is an advantage of completing laboratory tests in the physician’s office laboratory (POL)
What are faster results?
This test measures the patient's response to a constant or increasing workload
What is an exercise ECG?
The cardiac control center of the brain responds to this
What are changes in blood pressure?
The instrument that measures and displays the electrical impulses responsible for the cardiac cycle
What is an electrocardiograph?
Venules and arterioles are connected by these
What are capillaries?
These types routine tests are most often performed at the physician’s office laboratory (POL)
What are chemistry and hematology?
This peak flow zone indicates that large airways are beginning to narrow
What is yellow zone?
MAs may be responsible for this in a POL
What is preparing the patient for the test?
The impulse that travels through both ventricles
What is the S wave?
The srongest blood vessels that function to carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
This is used to sterilize all instruments and equipment before they are used on a patient or in procedures
What is an autoclave?
This is the focus of a quality control program
What is ensure accuracy in test results?
Workforce drug testing uses this type of lab test
What is toxicology?
The electrical impulses that appear on an electrocardiogram as peaks and valleys
What are deflections?
This type of nerve stimulation generally keeps the heart rate relatively low
What is parasympathetic nerve stimulation?
This uses light, concentrated through a condenser and focused through the object being examined to project an image
What is an optical microscope?
Where the focus controls are located on a microscope
What is the arm?
The chemically coated strip used in urine glucose and ketone monitoring
What is reagent?
The dysrhythmia in which P waves cannot be identified because of rapid multiple electrical signals that fire from areas of the atria other than the SA node
What is Atrial Fibrillation/AFib?
This disease/disorder causes chest pain only when someone pushes on the chest
What is costochondritis?
This is why we use an oil-immersion objective
What is for specimens that need very high magnification?
1988
When is the year CLIA was enacted?
Where the condenser and Iris are located on a microscope
What is substage?