Safety
The source of detailed information about a chemical.
What is a SDS?
(Safety Data Sheet)
This is the type of collection tube used for hematology testing.
What is a purple top (EDTA) tube?
This is the type of immersion oil commonly used on microscopes in the clinical lab.
What is Type B?
The preferred specimen used for urinalysis.
What is a first morning specimen?
Simple laboratory procedures that have an insignificant risk of an erroneous result.
What are waived tests?
(Example: Pregnancy test)
The minimum infection control measures that apply to all patients and all samples, regardless of their suspected or confirmed infection status
What are standard precautions?
This term describes a decrease in white blood cells.
What is leukopenia?
This is the total magnification if the lens is 40x and the ocular is 10x.
What is 400x?
The functional unit of the kidney.
This term indicates an institution is following regulations and other mandates.
What is compliance?
A water fire extinguisher is used on this class of fire.
What is Class A?
(Examples: Wood, paper)
This term describes the breakdown and removal of a fibrin clot.
What is fibrinolysis?
The total area visible while looking through the oculars.
What is the field of vision?
The pigment that gives urine its yellow color.
What is urochrome?
This agency regulates all of the testing performed on humans (except for research).
What is CMS?
(aka Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)These reduce the likelihood of exposure by altering the manner in which a task is performed
What are work practice controls?
This test monitors oral anticoagulant therapy.
What is PT/INR?
This part on the microscope is used to adjust the distance between the oculars.
The urinary crystal that is often the cause of renal calculi (kidney stones).
What is calcium oxalate?
This type of test complexity includes manual methods.
What is high-complexity testing?
These isolate or remove a bloodborne pathogen from the workplace.
What are engineering controls?
This group of cells can be found temporarily adhering to blood vessel walls.
What is the marginating pool of neutrophils?
This indicates the ability of the lens to collect light and is noted on the side of the lens.
What is the numerical aperature?
The urine reagent strip test that yields a false positive if the patient is taking Levadopa.
What is the ketone test?
A process involving an internal self-study and external peer assessment by which institutions measure their performance against established standards.
What is accreditation?