Phlebotomy
This is what drawing a tube of every common color on a patient is called.
What is a rainbow?
This test measures your average blood glucose levels over the past 3 month period.
What is a Hemoglobin A1c?
MCH is an acronym for this Red Blood Cell index found on a CBC.
What is Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin?
This stain is used commonly to help identify bacteria based on color and morphology.
What is a Gram Stain?
This common pain medication taken for UTI's turns urine bright orange.
What is pyridium?
This is the color tube drawn for CBC, Hgb, Hct, and Sed Rate?
What is a purple (or lavendar) top?
This calculation measures the difference—or gap—between the negatively charged and positively charged electrolytes in your blood.
What is the anion gap?
True or False: a large variation in the size of your red blood cells is called anisocytosis.
True
Agar plates are placed into an ______ to help speed up the growth of bacteria for testing.
What is an incubator?
The blue top must be full when drawn because an improper ______ can cause errant coagulation results.
What is blood to anticoagulant ratio?
The most common gauge of needle used in standard phlebotomy.
What is 21?
A Troponin test is most commonly used to rule out or confirm this condition.
What is a heart attack?
This is the category of cells that you will find Eosinophils under.
What are white blood cells (WBC's)?
This test may be performed to help determine which antibiotics a patient should be treated with.
What is a sensitivity?
The CCMS collection method is usually used for urinalysis and is an acronym for this.
What is Clean catch mid-stream?
Phlebotomists make sure this is the first thing they do when a patient sits in their chair.
What is properly identify the patient?
Hyponatremia is the condition of being deficient in this analyte.
What is sodium?
If a tech performs a manual differential on your WBC's, this is traditionally how many cells are counted.
What is 100?
A grapelike odor is often of diagnostic importance in detecting the growth of this organism in culture and in burn wounds.
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa?
This test is used to monitor Heparin therapy.
What is aPTT (Activated partial thromboplastin time)?
The direction the bevel should be on the needle when puncturing a vein.
What is up?
A dilution might be performed on a sample if the result is very ______.
What is high (or elevated)?
This test measures how fast your red cells settle to the bottom of a vertical tube.
What is a Sedimentation Rate (or ESR)?
This is the typical incubation time for a fungal culture.
What is 4 weeks?
This is the absolute minimum amount of urine that can be used to perform a urinalysis here at the IUSHC lab?
What is 1 milliliter?