Lab Operations
Hematology
Urinalysis/Body Fluids
Chemistry
Microbiology
Blood Bank
Immunology
Coagulation
100
This is a requirement for quality monitoring to maintain CLIA certificate compliance that involves blind sample testing evaluated against results from peer laboratories.
What is Proficiency Testing?
100
Packed Red Cell Volume
What is the Hematocrit?
100
This structure is the only part of the nephron which is located in the renal cortex
What is the Loop of Henle?
100
This tumor marker Cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) is associated with:
What is ovarian and endometrial cancer?
100
This parasite was found in the blood smear of a patient who had a recent summer vacation in New England and reported many insect and tick bites
What is Babesia spp.?
100
These are the two components of the major crossmatch.
What are donor red cells and recipient plasma (or serum)?
100
These cells are the major component in Natural Non-Specific Immunity
What are neutrophils?
100
This anticoagulant is used for most routine coagulation studies
What is sodium citrate
200
These are errors caused by uncontrollable factors that occur in an unpredictable manner during analytical laboratory testing.
What is random error?
200
This is the layer between the Red Blood Cells (RBCs) and Plasma after centrifugation of a blood sample.
What is the buffy coat?
200
This chemical urinalysis test shows abnormal levels when there is an increase of fatty acid metabolism
What is/are ketones?
200
The ratio of bicarbonate to carbonic acid at 7.40 pH
What is 20:1?
200
This organism can be found in the feces of a patient complaining of abdominal distress and diarrhea
What is Giardia lamblia?
200
This gene codes for production of the same basic antigen as the gene known as "H"
What is the Se gene?
200
This immunoglobulin has five individual heavy chains making its structure a pentamer
What is IgM?
200
This test is used to monitor patients on unfractionated heparin therapy
What is the Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (APTT)?
300
This statistical measure is used to compare the variability of different measurements.
What is the coefficient of variation?
300
This hemoglobin is the major hemoglobin during fetal life and has a higher oxygen affinity than adult hemoglobin.
What is Hemoglobin F?
300
This chemical urinalysis test is increased when there is damage to the glomerular filtration barrier and substances with higher molecular weight are passing into the urine
What is protein?
300
TSH is produced by this gland:
What is the pituitary gland?
300
This gram-positive, catalase-negative coccus formed alpha-hemolytic colonies on blood agar. Follow-up testing revealed gas production from glucose, acid production from mannose, sucrose and sorbitol, PYR positive, motility and growth in the presence of 6·5% NaCl
What is Enterococcus faecalis?
300
The agglutination reaction of red cells from a Bombay phenotype with anti-H lectin.
What is a negative reaction?
300
This principle indicates antibody excess in a precipitation reaction
What is prozone?
300
This abnormality should be suspected when a 1:1 mixing of patient plasma with normal plasma is not corrected
What is an immediate acting inhibitor
400
These are regulations that include federal standards applicable to all U.S. facilities or sites that test human specimens for health assessment or to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease.
What is CLIA'88?
400
This type of anemia is characterized by a lack of intrinsic factor that prevents vitamin B12 absorption.
What is pernicious anemia?
400
The significance of an ascitic fluid exudate with a positive CA 125 and a negative CEA.
What is ovarian malignancy?
400
The conversion of glucose or other Hexoses into lactate or pyruvate
What is glycolysis.
400
A sputum culture from an alcoholic seen in the ER grows gray, mucoid, stringy colonies on sheep blood agar. The isolate grows readily on MacConkey agar and forms mucoid, dark pink colonies. This organism had the following biochemical reactions: negative for both indole and oxidase, and positive for ONPG, glucose, citrate and Voges-Proskauer.
What is Klebsiella pneumoniae?
400
At the blood donor laboratory, this forward typing reagent is used to confirm group O units before placing them into inventory.
What is Anti-A,B reagent?
400
A pregnant woman positive with this DNA virus requires that a baby be born via C-section to prevent dissemination to the skin, conjunctiva, and visceral organs
What is Herpes Simplex Virus Type II?
400
This coagulopathy develops after a patient has received unfractionated heparin for more than 5 days resulting in a moderate thrombocytopenia
What is Heparin Induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)?
500
These documents address physical characteristics, safe handling and storage, and specific health hazards of hazardous chemicals.
What are SDS's?
500
During this process, RBC production is defective, and many are destroyed before leaving the bone marrow.
What is ineffective erythropoiesis?
500
This would diagnosed based on the below CSF results:
WBC count: 1,000/µL Glucose: 15 mg/dL
Lymphocytes: 10% Blood glucose: 90 mg/dL
Neutrophils: 90% Lactate: 40 mg/dL
Protein: 150 mg/dL
What is bacterial meningitis?
500
Most Thyroxine (T4) is converted to this more biologically active hormone.
What is Triiodothyronine (T3)?
500
A 29-year-old man is seen for recurrence of a purulent urethral discharge 10 days after the successful treatment of culture proven gonorrhea. The most likely cause of urethritis
What is Chlamydia trachomatis?
500
The minimum hemoglobin concentration in a fingerstick from a male blood donor
What is 13.0 g/dL
500
The blood has a high level of this antigen/protein after becoming infected with HIV
What is p24?
500
This coagulopathy is associated with E.coli O157:H7 and presents with thrombocytopenia, anemia, and renal failure
What is Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)?