Abbreviations
What is the abbreviation for Arterial Blood Gasses?
What is ABG?
What are additives?
What are chemicals designed to promote or prevent certain changes in the blood sample which allow accurate measurements of analytes?
What is the tool or equipment that you would use on a patient arm to locate a vein?
What is a tourniquet?
What is the lumen?
What is the Lumen is the hollow tube within the needle shaft?
Why is the yellow tube drawn first?
What is because yellow is a sterile test and can not be mixed with any other additives?
What tube is used to collect a CBC, and what does CBC stand for?
What is Lavendar and complete blood count?
What type of test use whole blood?
What are hematology test, complete blood counts, hormones and certain types of metals?
How far from the venipuncture site would you tie a tourniquet on a patients are or a site that you will drawing blood from?
What is 3-4 inches from the venipuncture site?
What is the rule about needle gauges?
What is the bigger the gauge, the smaller the needle?
What is the additive in the gold and marble topped tube?
What is the thixotropic and polymer gel?
What is the abbreviation for ethylenediametetraacetid acid?
What is EDTA?
What is Plasma?
What is the fluid portion of blood and clotting factors?
What kind of tourniquet should be available in every office or phlebotomy setting?
What is a non latex tourniquet?
There are 3 types of methods used for collecting blood, what are they?
What is the Evacuated system, the syringe system, and the winged infusion set?
What is the additive in the light blue tube?
What is Citrus Citrate or Sodium Citrate?
Define the abbreviation for STAT.
What is short turn around time?
What is Serum?
What is the fluid portion of blood that remains after clotting?
What could happen to a patient if you use a tourniquet that has latex?
What is using a tourniquet with latex can cause a mild or sever allergy in which the skin breaks out into hives or cause itching?
What is a multi-sample needle?
What is a multi-sample needle has a retractable rubber sleeve that covers the second tip when it is not inserted into the tube as well as the part that goes into the patient's arm?
What is the additive in the Green tube?
What is Heparin?
What are RBCs?
What are Red Blood Cells?
What is the difference between and antiseptic and a disinfectant?
What is an Antiseptic is used to clean the skin before and blood draw and a Disinfectant is used to clean surface, e.g 70% isopropyl and 10% bleach.
What is the purpose for using a tourniquet?
What is a tourniquet causes the vein to bulge or come to the surface making the vein palatable and visible?
What is the difference between the evacuated system and a syringe method?
What is in the evacuated system the blood is automatically suck out from the built in vacuum system, and the syringe method allows you to control the blood flow?
What is the order of draw when collecting blood samples?
What is yellow, light blue, red glass and red plastic, marble (tiger strip0 and gold, green, lavender, and gray?