Venipuncture
How long can you leave a tourniquet on for?
What is 1 minute
sterile tube
What is the first tube in the draw order.
The color tube you use for a complete blood count (CBC)
What is Lavendar top tube.
Most common location for a capillary puncture
What is the fingers (ring and middle)
The most common side effect of having blood drawn.
What is hematoma.
What are ways to diagnose diabetes
Glucose Tolerance Test, and Hemoglobin A1C
The most common site for venipuncture?
What is the antecubital fossa.
This tube color is 2nd in the order of draw
What is light blue
The tube that contains K-EDTA .
What is the lavender or pink top tube
Why do we wipe away and not use the first drop of blood in capillary puncture.
What is because of skin tissue and sweat that could be in the sample?
If a patient experiences syncope this means what?
What is fainting?
What test do physicians most often order for a more accurate measure of the patient's red blood cell volume?
H/H (Hemoglobin and Hematocrit Test)
Name the 3 ways to collect blood via venipuncture
What is vacuum tube/evacuated tube method, syringe, and butterfly.
The order of draw for the following tubes, green, gold, lavender.
What is gold, green and lavender.
The tube that contains lithium heparin additive
What is mint green tube
Where should skin punctures be performed on infants
What is the heel?
The destruction of blood cells is called?
What is hemolysis?
Why do we run a hematocrit?
To test patient red blood cell volume
What is 15 minutes
The tubes that can be drawn 4th in the order of draw.
What is serum tubes (red, tiger top and gold)
The panel that determines how much cholesterol is in someone's blood and requires your patient to be fasting.
What is a lipid panel.
Name three things we can do to ensure good blood flow when performing a capillary puncture on a finger
What is warm the area, milk patient's finger and lower hand?
If we are not getting blood during venipuncture what can we do to troubleshoot?
What is (possible answers)
1. adjust needle by redirecting one time
2.insert needle deeper
3.pull needle back without ever leaving the skin.
4. adjust tourniquet
Patient has a hemoglobin of 9.8 what could this indicate?
Anemia
Name the gauge size for butterfly needle
Name the gauge size for the most common size needle for venipuncture
What is 23 gauge?
What is 20-22 gauge
21 is the most common
List the order of draw in order starting at the SST Tubes
Tiger Top/Jungle and Gold, Greens, Lavender/Pink, Navy Blue, Grey
The blood test that determines the amount of inflammation in the body .
What is ESR or erythrocyte sedimentation rate?
Name the capillary tests that we performed in lab the past week and what they test for
What is hemoglobin, hematocrit, Glucose, HgbA1C, ABO
Name the three things that can cause a vein to collapse
What is tourniquet to tight, vacuum to strong, and tourniquet to close to the vein?
These antigens and antibodies are found in the following blood types?
Type: A
Type: AB
Type: O
Type A: A Antigens B Antibodies
Type AB: A&B Antigen NO Antibodies
Type O: No Antigens A&B Antibodies