Lab History
German microbiologist Julius Richard Petri invented what is 1887?
What is The Petri dish?
Ouch, too tight!
What is tourniquet?
BMAMA
Basic Metabolic Panel
What 2 areas are the fastest growing among professions in the US?
What is Pathology and Laboratory Science?
AIDET
What is:
A: Acknowledge
I: Introduce
D: Duration
E: Explanation
T: Thank you
What year was the electronic centrifuged first introduced?
1945
1928
1912
What is 1912?
Blood Culture, Royal Blue Plain, Blue, Black, SST/Red/RST, Green/Mint Green, EDTA Royal Blue, EDTA/Pink/Tiger Black, etc
What is Venipuncture Order of Draw?
HBSUR
What is Hepatitis B surface antibody
How many laboratory tests are performed each year?
7billion
15million
12 billion
What is 7 Billion?
GTT
What is Glucose Tolerance Test?
Test tubes came into use when?
1840
1850
1860
How should a needle be inserted?
What is 30o or less with the bevel up?
ELASF
Pancreatic Elastase, Feces
What percentage do diagnostics tests play a role in doctors' healthcare decisions?
What is 70%?
SST
Serum Separator Tube
Who discovered the existence of different human blood types in 1901?
Alexander Wood
Karl Landsteiner
Charles Pravaz
What is Karl Landsteiner?
Alexandre Wood and Charles Pravaz develeoped the hypodermic syringe in 1853
What are the 3 veins that we "look for" in a patient?
What are Medican Cubital, Cephalic, and Basilic veins?
VITK1
Vitamin K1
Most common ordered/performed lab test
What is CBC (complete blood count)?
TAT
What is Turn-Around-Time?
What was invented around 1950 by Dutch spectable-maker Zacharias Jenssen?
What is the compound Microscope?
You collect blood cultures on a 18kg patient and obtain 11mLs of sample, how do you distribute the sample?
What is 3mLs in a PEDs bottle, 4mLs in an Aerobic bottle, and 4mLs in a Anaerobic bottle?
AMISO
Amylase, Isoenzymes
Average laboratory/phlebotomy turnover in a 3-year time span
16.2%/24.9%
24.9%/18.4%
12.7%/14.2%
What is laboratory staff 16.2% and phlebotomist staff 24.9%?
TQC
Total Quality Control