Lab Operations
Hematology
Urinalysis/Body Fluids
Chemistry
Microbiology
Blood Bank
Immunology
Coagulation
100
This is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient's consent or knowledge.
What is HIPAA?
100
A normal red blood cell survives for this many days in circulation after its release from the bone marrow
What is 120 days?
100
This area of the renal nephron is the sole site of filtration
What is the glomerulus?
100
This lipoprotein class, often called "good cholesterol," is associated with a decreased risk of atherosclerosis.
What is HDL?
100
Infection of the urinary tract is most frequently associated with this organism
What is Escherichia coli?
100
The immediate spin crossmatch is primarily designed to detect ABO antibodies, which are typically of this immunoglobulin class.
What is IgM?
100
This type of hypersensitivity reaction is called “delayed hypersensitivity” or “cell mediated.”
What is a Type IV Hypersensitivity reaction?
100
This assay measures the strength (titer) of a Factor VIII inhibitor.
What is the Bethesda assay?
200
This is designed and performed to detect, reduce, and correct errors in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results.
What is quality control?
200
This is an enzyme in the Hexose Monophosphate pathway that is important for maintaining reduced glutathione in the red cell
What is G6PD?
200
The function of this system of renal hormones is to increase sodium reabsorption back into circulation
What is the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System (RAAS)?
200
This procedure is used to determine fetal lung maturity in amniotic fluid.
What is the lecithin/sphingomyelin (L/S) ratio?
200
The reverse CAMP test, lecithinase production, double zone hemolysis, and Gram stain morphology are all useful criteria in the identification of this microorganism
What is Clostridium perfringens?
200
This allergic transfusion reaction, characterized by hives and itching, is the most frequently reported transfusion reaction.
What is an Urticarial Transfusion Reaction?
200
This type of hypersensitivity reaction can be as mild as allergies, hay fever, insect bites to life threatening anaphylaxis
What is a Type I Hypersensitivity reaction?
200
This product is formed when plasmin acts on cross-linked fibrin.
What is D-dimer?
300
This regulatory agency ensures safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.
What is OSHA?
300
This is the earliest morphologically identifiable cell in the granulocyte maturation sequence.
What is the myeloblast (blast)?
300
This chemical urinalysis test can show positive reactions with solid colors or speckled reagent pads
What is blood?
300
This lipoprotein transports exogenous triglycerides and can give serum a white, milky appearance following a meal.
What are chylomicrons?
300
This image illustrates a diagnostic characteristic of a yeast grown in rabbit plasma
What is Candida albicans?
300
A 300ug dose of Rh Immune Globulin contains sufficient Anti-D to protect against this amount of whole blood.
What is 30 Mls?
300
Antibodies are directed against platelets in this autoimmune disorder.
What is Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura?
300
This inherited platelet adhesion disorder is characterized by giant platelets and a prolonged bleeding time.
What is Bernard-Soulier Syndrome?
400
The likelihood that an individual with a positive test result truly has the particular gene and/or disease in question.
What is positive predictive value?
400
Patients with β-thalassemia major have this defect in hemoglobin production.
What is decreased β-globin chain synthesis?
400
Identify this urinary microscopic element
What is/are bilirubin crystals?
400
These four tests are routinely included in a lipid panel.
What are total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides?
400
This Gram-positive coccus was isolated from a blood culture positive for hippurate hydrolysis and negative for catalase, bile esculin hydrolysis and susceptible for optochin and resistant to bacitracin
What is Streptococcus agalactiae?
400
A family has four children with blood types A, B, AB, and O. These are the most likely genotypes of the parents.
What is AO and BO?
400
The anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody is most often associated with this condition
What is Goodpasture syndrome?
400
This coagulopathy is characterized by a decreased platelet count, hypofibrinogenemia, prolonged PT, PTT, and TCT, increased D-dimer, and the presence of schistocytes on the blood film.
What is Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)?
500
A patient has a rapid antigen test performed at an urgent care clinic. This would be the most likely complexity type that this test would be categorized by the FDA.
What is waived complexity?
500
This condition may be hard to distinguish from a shift-to-the-left increase in immature granulocytes
What is Pelger-Huet Anomaly?
500
This renal disorder can show clinical findings of hematuria, proteinuria, lipiduria, urinary casts, and oval fat bodies.
What is Nephrotic Syndrome?
500
This type of lipid would be expected to be falsely elevated on a serum from a non-fasting patient.
What are triglycerides?
500
An 18-year-old boy is admitted to the hospital with suspected meningitis. He is lethargic and presents with a rigid neck. He has not had most of the recommended vaccines from childhood to now. This causative agent was isolated from a spinal fluid and shows many PMNS with intra and extra cellular Gram-negative diplococci
What is Neisseria meningitidis?
500
All panel cells are positive at AHG, the autocontrol is negative, and no negative reactions are observed. This type of antibody should be suspected.
What is an antibody to a high-frequency antigen?
500
This X-linked immunodeficiency disorder results in the absence of B cells and gamma globulins.
What is Bruton’s X-linked Agammaglobulinemia?
500
This coagulopathy results from an autoantibody to ADAMTS-13 and presents with thrombocytopenia, anemia, and neurological problems
What is Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)?