Physical characteristics
Collection and Handling
Transudate vs Exudate
Chylous vs Pseudochylous/ Lab Testing
Lab Findings
100
This serous fluid can be described as.
What is Normal?
100
Serous fluid should be collected and/or received in this container if the care team has ordered cell count and differential.
What testing is an EDTA tube used for?
100
Transudates have this characteristics upon gross examination.
What is clear, pale, or yellow?
100
Cause of milky appearance of pseudochylous fluid
What is cholesterol?
100
An increase in neutrophils in an exudate most often points to this condition.
What is an infection?
200
This serous fluid can be described as.
What is Turbid?
200
This medical procedure can help relieve patient of undue pressure added do their organ(s), as well as collects serous fluid for laboratory examination.
What is an Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspirate?
200
This effusion is impacted by the dilation of capillary cell walls.
What is exudate?
200
Most likely to contain cholesterol crystals, between chylous or pseudochylous fluid
What is pseudochylous?
200
These cells are present in normal serous fluid.
What is a mesothelial cell?
300
Severe hemorrhage can cause this type of serous fluid.
What is Clotted?
300
This common laboratory fluid concentration technique/machine is frequently used due to the usual abundant amount of specimen collected.
What is cytocentrifugation?
300
After running some chemical tests on pleural fluid, the results come back with:
WBCs: 768 mm^3
SG: 1.009
LDH ratio of 0.2
What is transudate?
300
Ascitic fluid is analyzed via chemistry testing from this body cavity.
What is the peritoneal cavity?
300
You examine a Gram stain of peritoneal fluid from a patient with cirrhosis and find short and plump GNRs.
What is spontaneous bacterial peritonitis?
400
These problems cause bile stained serous fluid.
What is: Rupture in liver, gallbladder, small intestine?
400
This is the specific procedure name where pericardial fluid is collected
What is pericardiocentesis?
400
A patient with known congestive heart failure claims that he is having difficulty breathing.
LDH ratio: 0.7
WBCs: 1768 mm^3
SG:1.017
What is exudate fluid?
400
The use of chemistry testing is done to differentiate transudate vs. exudate effusion.
What is the pericardial cavity?
400
You run chemical tests on a patient's pleural fluid and find that:
glucose is 53 mg/dL
adenosine deaminase is 56 U/L
(These values are not necessarily reflective of actual values that might be obtained in the lab.)
What is tuberculosis?
500
These two substances cause the milky appearance in chylous serous fluid.
What is Triglycerides and lymph?
500
If the provider has ordered this specific chemistry analyte, this special handling requirement must be completed ASAP (Provide analyte and handling requirement)
What is pH? What is ice used for?
500
The body restores balance from water leaking into the body cavity by:
What is: Reduce hydrostatic pressure in veins or increase osmotic pressure?
500
The presence of blood in this body cavity would warrant white blood cell analysis.
What is the pleural cavity?
500
You receive blood streaked pericardial fluid. You suspect two possible conditions.
What is infection and cancer?