Lab Safety
The acronym PASS is used to teach lab staff how to use this safety device.
What is a Fire Extinguisher?
Occurs when the quality control results are all distributed on one side of the mean or the other
What is a shift?
Small cell fragments in our blood that form clots and stop or prevent bleeding.
What are platelets?
A blood level that is below normal in potassium, an important body chemical which can result in fatigue, muscle cramps, and abnormal heart rhythms.
What is hypokalemia?
A fully automated system to streamline the urinalysis workflow.
What is the DXU Iris Workcell?
To properly wash your hands, it is recommended to sing this common tune.
What is the Alphabet song?
A graph that quality control data is plotted on to give a visual indication whether a laboratory test is working well.
What is a Levy-Jennings chart?
In general, the RBC x 3 = Hgb and Hgb x 3 = Hct
What is the rule of 3?
A method to measure how much a chemical substance absorbs light by measuring the intensity of light as a beam of light passes through sample solution.
What is Spectrophotometry?
A leading middleware solution for today's clinical laboratories, bridging laboratory information systems (LIS) and instrumentation.
What is Remisol Advance?
The study of people in their working environment.
What is ergonomics?
A set of statistical patterns, each being unlikely to occur by random variability, thereby raising a suspicion of faulty accuracy or precision of the measurement system.
What are Westgard Rules?
The detection and measurement of changes in electrical resistance produced by a particle or cell suspended in a conductive liquid traversing through a small aperture.
What is the Coulter principle?
K+ = 13.0 mmol/L
Ca = 2.5 mg/dL
What is EDTA contamination?
Clinical chemistry analyzer is the latest innovation in a line of reliable chemistry systems for the mid- to high-volume laboratory.
What is the DxC 700 AU?
Microorganisms that cause disease and are present in human blood.
What are Blood Borne Pathogens?
A measure of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean
What is Standard Deviation?
A phrase used to note that there are many immature neutrophils present usually due to an infection.
A process that is used to demonstrate the suitability of an analytical method for an intended purpose.
What is Method Validation?
An American electrical engineer, inventor, and businessman. The best known of his 85 patents is the Coulter principle, which provides a method for counting and sizing microscopic particles suspended in fluid.
Who was Wallace Coulter?
Documents that describe the physical and health hazards of chemicals or chemical-containing products
What are Safety Data Sheets (SDS)?
A quality control protocol that uses patient results to monitor the performance of an instrument system.
What is a moving average?
Pink or red-stained needle-shaped structures seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid cells
What are Auer Rods?
The emission of photons when chemically excited molecules decay to ground state following a chemical reaction.
In 1934, he invented the pH meter while a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Who is Dr. Arnold Beckman?