Two most common tubes used in chemistry
What is red and green or plain and heparin?
Two ways a specimen may be hemolyzed after collection
What is force blood through a needle, freeze or shake?
Should be run daily
What is quality control?
The predominant methodology in chemistry analyzers
What is spectrophotometry?
What is CO2 down. pH up
The best preservative for a chemistry test requiring plasma.
What is Lithium Heparin?
A nonpathogenic way to obtain a lipemic specimen
What is collect after an animal has eaten?
Used to determine a standard curve
What are standards?
Cost per test is least expensive with this method
What is wet chemistry
Best blood tests for suspected bone disease
What is Ca and Phos
The best preservative for glucose testing
What is sodium or lithium oxalate?
Makes a blood gas specimen unacceptable
What is contains air bubbles?
Assigned a value and used to verify equipment functioning properly
What is a calibrator?
Measured in an enzymatic assay
What is enzyme activity?
Indicated by high TSH and low T4
What is hypothyroidism?
This is unacceptable for potassium analysis?
What is a hemolyzed specimen?
Where you store reagents that need to be at 22C
What is room temperature?
The best way to assure equipment continues to operate.
What is perform preventative maintenance?
A calibrated glass tube used with a spectrophotometer
What is a cuvette?
Indicated by a monoclonal peak in the gamma proteins
What is multiple myeloma?
The only acceptable sample condition for ammonia determination
What is on ice?
Drops each hour in a specimen that is not centrifuged and separated
What is glucose?
How a standard curve is obtained on a spectrophotomer
What is analyze known concentrations to derive a linear relationship between concentrations and absorbance?
analytes the use radioactive reagents for assessment
What are thyroid hormones?
Gland evaluated by blood cortisol levels before and after administration of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) is the
What is the adrenal gland?