This is an instance when verbal reports/results are still used.
What is to report critical values?
100
This is what is used to keep track of specimens that are hand delivered to the lab.
What is a log sheet?
100
Serum and plasma should be physically separated from cells as soon as possible and no longer than _____________ from the time of collection.
What is 2 hours?
100
This is the first thing we do when drawing a bilirubin on an infant under a UV light.
What is turn off the light?
100
These are 2 ways to protect a specimen from light.
What is aluminum foil, brown biohazard bad, or amber tube?
200
These 2 groups say lab results should be confirmed, dated, and accompanied by permanent reports that are aailable in the lab, as well as on the patient's medical record.
Who are The Joint Commission and College of American Pathologist?
200
This is what shock and vibrations do to coagulation test.
What is platelet activation?
200
These are the 3 steps that the processing phase is divided into.
What is pre-centrifugation, centrifugation, and post-centrifugation.
200
This is how we would draw an ammonia level.
What is a green top on ice?
200
This is what blood gases are collected in.
What are heparinized syringes?
300
These 2 reasons are why verbal reports/results has declined.
What is easier with computer access, and the concern for privacy?
300
This is another group of test that besides a bilirubin that should be protected from light.
What are vitamins?
300
This is how hematology specimens are processed when they get to the lab.
What is they are mixed gently on a rocker?
300
This is how we would draw a lactic acid.
What is gray top on ice?
300
This substance promotes the growth of bacteria.
What is culture media?
400
These are 3 ways results can be reported.
What is verbal, written, or computerized?
400
Besides specimens, these are 4 of the 7 things listed in your book that are transported by pneumatic tube systems.
What are patient records, messages, letters, bills, medications, x-rays, lab test results.
400
This is how long it usually takes serum specimens to clot at room temperature.
What is 30 to 60 minutes?
400
When drawing for cold agglutinins, the specimen tube must be kept at what temperature?
What is 37 degrees Celsius?
400
This is by how much clot activators reduce clotting time.
What is 15-30 minutes?
500
These 3 things must be done to a specimen received from an outside source.
What is immediately identified, logged in, and checked for sample integrity?
500
These are 3 of the 4 test that CLSI say are most affected by delivery with the pneumatic tube system.
What is lactate dehydrogenase, potassium, plasma hemoglobin, or acid phosphatase?
500
These are 5 of the 12 test listed on pg. 394 that are affected by hemolysis.
What is pg. 394?
500
This is what chilling a specimen will do.
What is inhibits blood cell metabolism and stabilizes most constituents?
500
These are the 4 pre-examination/pre-analytical variables.
What are Patient Variables, Transportation and Handling Variables, Specimen Processing and Storage Variables, and Specimen Variables?