Venipuncture
What it is called when you touch or feel a venipuncture site?
Palpate
What is the first tube in the order of draw?
Yellow top/ Blood Culture bottles
What additive is in a lavender top?
EDTA
What is the most common butterfly needle gauge used?
21 gauge
What is the term for a healthcare acquired infection
Nosocomial infection
What is the length of time a tourniquet can be left on?
1 minute
What is the 5th tube in the order of draw
Green Top- Lithium Heparin/ Sodium Heparin
What anticoagulant is in a green top? mint green and dark green. If drawing both which one gets drawn first?
Dark Green- Sodium Heparin
Lithium heparin gets drawn first
what is the device used to hold the tube in place during venipuncture
What is the best way to reduce the spread of infection
Handwashing
What is the most commonly used vein to preform a venipuncture on?
Median Cubital
What is the second tube in the order draw?
When drawing blood cultures, which bottle should be drawn first? What bottle should be drawn if you only can obtain one blood culture?
Aerobic
What is used to help make the veins more prominent
Tourniquet
What are 3 reasons a specimen would be rejected
Improper labeling
Hemolized Specimen
Wrong patient
What is done to your tubes after preforming your blood draw?
Invert the tubes label with patients name ID / DOB, date & time of collection and intials of phleb
What is the 6th tube in the order of draw
Lavender
CMP, PTT, DIFF, RPR, FBS
Put them in the correct order of draw
**EXTRA 100 POINTS**
CMP- SST (3rd)
PTT- light blue (2nd)
Diff- Lavender (4th)
RPR- red (1st)
FBS- gray (5th)
What is used to cleanse the arm to collect a BAC specimen?
Chlorhexidine
What is the first thing you do when you are going to preform a venipuncture
Handwashing
Where should you draw if a patient has had a mastectomy of the right side 7 years ago.
Left arm
What is the 3rd tube in the order of draw
Serum tube ( SST, Gold)
What are the 6 departments in a lab and the corresponding tubes
Blood Bank- red/pink
Hematology- lavender
coagulation- light blue
microbiology- yellow/ blood culture bottles
chemistry- green PST, red, SST, gold, grey
Someone who has an allergy to shellfish may also be allergic to what antiseptic?
Iodine
What motion should be used when cleaning a site for a routine venipuncture?
Friction up and down