Special Collections
Blood Cultures
Pre-Analytical
Capillary
Miscellaneous
100
Another name for a butterfly needle and tubing
What is winged infusion set?
100
The biggest cause of false positive results
What is skin contamination?
100
RBCs break apart, the hemoglobin escapes, the serum becomes red in color
What is hemolysis?
100
A sterile, disposable, bladed instrument for heel or finger puncture
What is a lancet?
100
The correct order of draw for a CBC, Lipid Panel, and a Protime
What is light blue, green/red/gold, purple?
200
Glucose drawn 2 hours after eating
What is a 2 hour post-prandial glucose?
200
30-60 seconds
What is how long you should cleanse the venipuncture site before a blood culture is to be drawn?
200
Increased fat content in the blood
What is lipemia?
200
The order of draw for a capillary collection
What is purple, green, red/gold?
200
The best site for heel puncture
What are the medial or lateral edges of the heel?
300
A test in which the patient drinks a glucola beverage and has blood drawn over a period of 3 hours
What is a Glucose Tolerance Test?
300
What you do after you take the tops off the blood culture bottles
What is cleanse the bottle tops with an alcohol pad?
300
Leaving the tourniquet on for >1 minute causes blood flow stagnation
What is hemoconcentration
300
The best two finger choices for capillary puncture
What are the index or middle fingers?
300
The basic principle of the bleeding time test
What is to assess platelet function?
400
A specimen drawn just before the next scheduled medication dose is administered
What is a trough specimen?
400
The bottle you fill first when collecting a set of blood cultures
What is aerobic?
400
Blood leaks into the tissue and swells near the venipuncture site
What is a hematoma?
400
The action by which blood fills a microhematocrit tube
What is capillary action?
400
The best vessel choice for ABG collection
What is the radial artery?
500
The withdrawl of a large volume of blood (1 unit) to treat diseases involving the overproduction of RBCs or iron
What is a therapeutic phlebotomy?
500
Chlorhexidine gluconate
What is the antiseptic used to disinfect the blood culture site?
500
An increased bilirubin causes the serum to have a dark yellow appearance
What is icteric?
500
250µl - 500µl
What is the minimum and maximum fill levels in a microtainer tube?
500
The test to check a patient's arterial collateral circulation before collecting an ABG
What is a Modified Allen's Test?
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