Tube tests
What is the additive for lavender tube top?
EDTA
Don
To put on
What is Varicella?
Chicken pox, red itchy bumps. Airborne disease
Capillary sticks should be performed perpendicular or parallel to finger grooves?
Perpendicular
Veins carry blood back to the heart.
What is the additive for gold/tiger top?
Serum separating tube (SST)
Doff
To take off
Influenza, covid and strep
A phlebotomist is preparing to perform a venipuncture. The patient sticks out his arm and nods. What type of consent is this?
Implied
An RBC is crescent shaped.
False
What is the additive for dark green tube top?
Sodium heparin
Leuko
White
Tuberculosis, Varicella, Measles
Blood clotting
Samantha, who is O-, can receive blood from Dillon, who is O+.
False
What is the additive for light blue tube tops?
Sodium citrate
Reverse isolation room
Room for protecting a patient with a weak immune system
C. Diff, MRSA
What is a lab request?
A Dr's order of tests
An Erythrocyte is a RBC.
True
What is the additive for gray tube tops?
Sodium fluoride/potassium oxolate
A phlebotomist is preparing for a blood culture draw. How many vials should they take from how many sites?
Sites: 2
Vials: 4
A phlebotomist should realize that HIV/AIDS stands for what?
Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Aquired Immunodeficiency Disease
What is glucose?
Main energy source for bodies cells, type of sugar in the blood
A phlebotomist should realize a thrombus means what.
A floating blood clot (thrombosis when its stuck)