Donors, Cultures, & Specimens
Blood pulsing into the tube means you have punctured this.
What is an artery?
D-dimer & FDP tests diagnose this medical condition.
What is desseminated intravascular coagulation?
Sputum is collected in the diagnosis and monitoring of this.
What is tuberculosis?
Special information required when labeling a non-blood specimen.
What is type & source of specimen?
The tube in which sodium citrate can be found.
What is light blue?
A patient who has just awakened at 0600 after fasting all night.
What is a basal state?
What is primary atypical pneumonia?
A breath specimen can be used to detect this.
What is a helicobacter pylori?
This type of urine specimen is best for detecting UTI.
What is a clean catch?
Acid Citrate Dextrose is an additive found in this color tube.
What is yellow?
Occult (hidden) blood resulting from bleeding within GI tract, (guaiac test) is tested with the application of this specimen.
What is feces?
Human/clerical error is the most common cause of this fatal reaction.
What is a hemolytic transfusion?
Three components of the urinalysis test.
What are physical, chemical, & microscopic?
These drugs are part of a NIDA test panel.
What are THC, cocaine, amphetamines, & PCP?
Potassium oxalate is found in this color tube.
This happens because of a change in blood composition which may be the result of prolonged tourniquet application.
What is hemoconcentration?
This is an advantage of a bedside glucose testing program (POCT).
What is decreased turn around time?
This makes the first morning specimen unacceptable for urine cytology.
What is cells may have disintegrated in bladder overnight?
This is implied by the word forensic.
What is legal?
Pearl tubes contain this additive.
What is anticoagulant: EDTA?
This is caused by diluted blood cells because of an increase in body fluid during pregnancy.
What is a lower reference range for red blood cell counts?
Normal decline in kidney function decreases this rate in elderly patients.
What is creatinine clearance?
Lecithin and sphingomyelin are tests associated with this.
This specimen is required for a 'rapid strep' test.
What is a throat swab?
Pink tubes contain this.