Lab Safety
This emergency equipment is used to rinse your eyes if they are exposed to a harmful chemical.
What is an Eye Wash Station?
Occurs when the quality control results are all distributed on one side of the mean or the other
What is a shift?
These immature neutrophils indicate a “left shift” when elevated.
What are bands?
What are ISEs?
This citrus fruit is significant at Beckman Coulter
What is a Lemon?
This show was about chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin.
What is Breaking Bad?
You should always tie this back before starting lab work to avoid fire hazards and contamination.
What is long hair?
These two pathologists were the pioneers of using statistics for the standardization and calibration of analytical procedures.
Who are Levey and Jennings?
This large WBC with folded or kidney-shaped nuclei becomes a macrophage once it enters tissues.
What is a Monocyte?
These two liver enzymes are commonly elevated in hepatitis and alcohol-related liver damage.
What are ALT and AST?
This award winning analyzer sets a new standard with first-of-its-kind high sensitivity immunoassay testing capabilities for the core labs. Also with zero daily maintenance... for real!
What is the DXI 9000?
The sarcastic diagnostician who loves puzzles more than people.
Who is House, M.D.?
The study of people in their working environment.
What is ergonomics?
This term describes the ability of a method to give the same result under consistent conditions. Can also refer to the closeness of repeated measurements to each other.
What is precision?
This patented principle is described as 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?
This electrolyte is crucial for muscle contraction and nerve signaling, and is tightly regulated in the body.
What is Potassium?
Beckman Coulter's global headquarters is located here.
Where is Brea, California?
In this show, a cheerful lab tech and blood spatter analyst has a darker secret life.
Who is Dexter?
Microorganisms/Viruses that cause disease after exposure and are present in human blood.
What are Blood Borne Pathogens?
This type of QC ensures your lab’s results are comparable with other labs and is often monitored through CAP or API surveys.
What is External QC (Peer Groups or Proficiency Testing)?
What is an Eosinophil?
This highly sensitive version of a cardiac biomarker allows detection of even minor myocardial injury and is now standard in diagnosing acute coronary syndromes.
What is High Sensitivity Troponin?
A member of the National Inventor's Hall of Fame and holder of 85 patents. Best known for his long line of innovative breakthroughs in hematology analysis which radically changed hematology by allowing more accurate and faster CBC (Complete Blood Count) analysis.
Who was Wallace Coulter?
Gil Grissom was often heard saying “The evidence never lies.” on this early 2000's show.
What is CSI?
This term refers to procedures designed to protect workers from infectious materials.
What are Universal Precautions?
This rule is violated when both levels of qc are out above 2 SD.
What is a 2-2S violation?
This morphology term describes RBCs with dark centers and pale rings — commonly seen in liver disease.
What are Target Cells (Codocytes)?
This analytical technique separates molecules based on size and charge.
What is electrophoresis?
While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded his company based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". He also developed the DU spectrophotometer, "probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of bioscience".
Who is Dr. Arnold Beckman?
This Muppet duo, consisting of a squeaky assistant and a bald-headed lead scientist, are known for chaotic lab experiments.
Who are Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker?