Tubes
Sodium citrate is an additivie in these TWO tubes
What is light blue and black?
This health profession is concerned with performing laboratory analyses used in diagnosing and treating diseases
What is clinical laboratory science?
This vein is the first choice for collection
What is the median cubital?
The tourniquet is used to do this to the vein
What is anchoring?
You should still draw from a patient that is this and be treated as if they are responsive
What is unconscious?
This test can only be done in a black tube and tells the rate at which red blood cells sediment in a period of one hour.
What is erythrocyte sedimentation rate?
A phlebotomist can only perform this kind of complexity test
What are waived tests?
Vein determination is based on the depth, direction and this of the veins.
What is the diameter?
What is a barrel?
This causes alteration in cellular element concentration and can be caused by leaving the tourniquet on for more than a minuet
What is hemoconcentration?
Dark green tubes produce this type of specimen
This federal agency is responsible for implementing CLIA '88?
What is the center for medicare and medicaid services?
Veins that are hard, inflexible, narrow, and have been drawn numerous times from the same site are known as this
What are sclerosed veins?
This type of needle is the number one cause of accidental needle sticks
If there is no requistion forms or a mislabeled specimen this will occur
What is rejection of specimen?
These tubes are specific to blood bank department
What is pink?
A voluntary but highly encourages process
What is accreditation?
You should never draw from a diabetes patient from this possible but unadvised site
What is the ankle and foot vein?
These needle gauges are used for children
What is 22 or 23 gauge?
The procedure must be ended, tourniquet removed, then needle, stay with the patient and call for help if the patient experiences any of these
What is syncope, seizures, V/N, formation of hematoma
These tubes contain thixotropic gel
What are Gold, Light Green, Gray/Red and Green/Gray?
Laboratories performing high or moderate complexity test must take part in a ____ test and be approved by ___
These veins lack elasticity, are easy to go through and are twisted
What are tortuous veins?
A paitent allergic to iodine and isopropyl alcohol can use these two solutions for cleansing the site
What is chlorhexidine gluconate and benzalkanium chloride?
Potassium levels, Lactate dehydrogenase test, and aspartate aminotransferase tests are seriously affected if this occurs