Routine Venipuncture
Safety and First Aid
Anatomy
Equipment
Order of Draw, Additives
100
What is it called when you touch or feel a venipuncture site?
Palpate
100
What is the biggest blood borne transmitted disease for phlebotomists?
Hepatitis B
100

What is the difference between arteries and veins.

Arteries are muscular, and they pulse with the heart. They carry oxygen rich blood away from the heart. Veins are elastic, they carry deoxygentated blood back to the heart.

100
In a successful venipuncture, evacuated tubes fill automatically as soon as the tube stopper is pierced because...?
The premeasured vacuum in each tube decides the amount of blood.
100

What is the additive in the light blue tube?

Sodium citrate, Na citrate

200

What is the proper way to cleanse the skin site prior to performing venipuncture?

Cleanse the site with 70% alcohol pads with friction using back and forth strokes. 

200
What is the term for a healthcare acquired infection
Nosocomial infection
200

What are the three preferred sites for venipunctures performed by a medical assistant?

Median cubital vein, cephalic vein, and basilic vein

200
What type of cleaning agent is used to clean the skin in preparation for venipuncture? Give an Example.
Antiseptics are safe for use on people, Alcohol, Chloro-prep, and Iodine.
200

When drawing blood cultures, the site must be cleaned thoroughly using what two cleaners?

1st alcohol, then Betadine allowing time to dry in between.

300

Where should you draw if a patient has had a double mastectomy?

Ask the patient where to draw blood from, and confirm with the doctor. You may have to draw from a foot, or draw without a tourniquet.

300
What is the best way to reduce the spread of infection?
Washing hands
300
What is the name of the blood vessels that carry blood back from the lungs to the heart.
Pulmonary Veins
300

Describe how and why a properly tied tourniquet aids in venipuncture.

Make veins larger and easier to feel by restricting venous flow but allowing arterial flow.

300

What is the additive in the lavendar top tube?

EDTA

400
What is the most critical error a phlebotomist can make?
Misidentify the patients specimen, or not identify the patient.
400
Which body fluid is excluded from the standard precautions requirements?
Sweat
400

This heart chamber receives blood returning from the lungs.

Left atrium

400
Someone who has an allergy to shellfish may also be allergic to what antiseptic?
Iodine
400

What anticoagulant is contained in a PST tube?

Sodium Heparin or Lithium Heparin

500

What method of venipuncture should be used for Newborns to infants 12 months of age?

Heel stick (Capillary blood specimen)

500

What should the phlebotomist do with the blood tubes after a successful blood draw?

Label specimen tubes at the bedside with the time, date, initials, and send to the lab with the requisition.

500
The heart gets its blood supply from the:
Coronary arteries
500
What does a transillumination device perform?
This machine passes light through organ walls. These can be used to help find difficult or deep veins, (vein finder).
500
List the order of draw by color and additive.
Sterile - Blood cultures Light blue - Na Citrate Red - Clot activator SST - Clot activator Green - Heparin PST - Heparin Lavendar - EDTA Pink - EDTA Gray - Glycolitic inhibitor
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