Tubes, Tests, Labs and Specimens
The very first tube to always be collected.
What is a blood culture?
The most crucial part of the procedure.
What is identifying the patient?
The most common venipuncture complication caused by blood leaking into the tissues.
What is a hematoma?
Heel and middle and ring fingers.
What are sites for a dermal puncture?
Types needles used for venipuncture.
What are WIS, syringe, and multi sample needle?
The three types of specimens to be collected.
What are whole blood, serum, and plasma?
Gathering the proper tubes, palpating for vein, inspecting needle.
What is done before needle insertion?
Within the rights of the patient.
What is patient refusal?
Never use this method.
What is squeezing/milking of the finger?
Median cubital, cephalic, basilic, and hand.
What are sites for venipuncture?
Additives that bind Ca2+ in the coagulation cascade.
What are EDTA, citrate, and oxalate?
Typically done about 2 inches below the site.
What is anchoring?
Use of the wrong antiseptic, incorrect tube labeling, QNS tube, hemolysis.
What are reasons for specimen rejection/recollection?
Type of blood collected through a dermal puncture.
What is Capillary blood ?
Routine antiseptic used for venipuncture.
What is 70% isopropyl alcohol?
Department that uses the light blue tube that tests for Prothrombin Time, Thrombin Time and D-Dimer.
What is Coagulation?
Method not to be used when anchoring the vein.
What is the ''C" method?
Complication fixed by the slight rotation of the needle.
What is having the bevel of the needle stuck to the wall?
infants not walking or <12 months old.
What is patient criteria for heel sticks?
Mastectomy side, burns and scars, IV site, skin disruptions.
What are sites to avoid for a venipuncture?
Total protein, GGT, AST, and bilirubin are all included in this test.
What is a Liver Panel?
Removal of the tourniquet.
What is done immediately after blood flow is established or after 1 minute of being applied?
Compartment Syndrome, Anemia and Nerve Damage.
What are long term complications?
Hemoglobin and Hematocrit and Glucose screening.
What are tests done using the dermal puncture method.
Using WIS on hand.
What is an alternate site?