Ch 1
The average amount of blood in the human body is ___ L.
What is 5?
PPE stands for...
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
Lab orders are received through...
What are requisition forms?
What is 21 gauge?
The first newborn screen is collected at _____ gestational age.
A person who has a blood type of B negative can only receive blood from people who have...
What is B negative or O negative?
Needles are disposed of in a...
What is a sharps container?
A patient extending their arm is a form of _____ consent.
What is implied?
The needle is inserted into the skin with the bevel up, and at this angle.
What is 15o-30o?
Every specimen collected must have a _____ symbol labeled on the transportation container.
What is biohazard?
Any nonliving object or substance capable of carrying infectious organisms.
What is a fomite?
The PPE precautions exclusive for entering the room of a patient with an airborne illness are...
What is an N95 or PAPR?
Urine begins to deteriorate within ___ minutes of the collection.
What is 30 minutes?
Inflammation of a blood vessel. It usually occurs when one vein has been accessed repeatedly.
What is Phlebitis?
A device that spins laboratory specimens at high speeds to separate the samples into their components for testing purposes.
What is centrifuge?
This section of the heart receives the most oxygen rich blood.
What is the left atrium?
What are the symptoms for shock?
What is Clammy skin, slurred speech, and blurry vision?
The act of fainting due to blood loss is...
What is syncope?
Portion of blood that is expressed as a percentage by volume and consists of packaged red blood cells.
What is hematocrit?
What is Bilirubin?
The main components of blood are 55%-60% ____, 40%-45% _____, and the remainder are ______.
What are plasma, erythrocytes(RBC), and Leukocytes(WBC)/platelets?
HIPAA helps provide privacy for a patients...
protected health information (PHI)
A collection of a pooling of blood outside a blood vessel is...
A capillary draw for a blood gas, bilirubin, and CBC was requested. You'd collect the following tubes in the following order.
The total amount of blood required for a set of blood cultures is ____ ml.