Lab Operations
Hematology
Urinalysis/Body Fluids
Chemistry
Microbiology
Blood Bank
Immunology
Coagulation
100
This is the assessment of someone's capabilities against the requirements of their job required at a minimum on an annual basis in the laboratory.
What is competency assessment?
100
This is the carrier protein for iron
What is apotransferrin?
100
This renal function test is used to assess the glomerular filtration rate and requires a 24 hour urine collection
What is Creatinine Clearance?
100
A protein fraction that normally accounts for over half of the serum total protein.
What is albumin?
100
This structure is visualized using India Ink
What is capsule?
100
According to AABB Standards, at least 90% of all Apheresis Platelets units tested shall contain a minimum of this many platelets.
What is 3.0 x 10 11
100
This immunoassay is routinely used in the clinical laboratory due to its high level of sensitivity
What is ELISA?
100
This test is performed to detect deficiencies in the extrinsic and common pathways
What is the Prothrombin Time (PT)?
200
This is the term for ALL personal health information of a patient, including physical and mental health information, payment information, and demographic information. It applies to all oral, written, and electronic forms.
What is PHI (protected health information)?
200
This test result is calculated by using the following formula:
Serum Iron (g/dL)/ TIBC (g/dL)x 100
What is Percent Transferrin Saturation?
200
The xanthochromic color appearance of CSF due to a subarachnoid bleed
What is yellow?
200
The Creatinine clearance formula is used to determine this rate.
What is glomerular filtration rate?
200
This is the best medium for the cultivation of Bordetella pertussis
What is Regan-Lowe agar?
200
This reagent is used to distinguish between an A1 and A2 blood subtypes
What is Dolichos biflorus lectin?
200
This Cytokine is produced in response to viral infections, immune stimulation or chemical stimulation
What are interferons?
200
The presence of this inhibitor can be screened and confirmed by the Dilute Russell’s Viper Venom Test
What is lupus anticoagulant?
300
Costs that are directly traceable to a test procedure such as reagents, controls, and testing personnel.
What are direct costs?
300
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) is most often associated with this type of acute leukemia
What is Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia?
300
A classic finding of CSF examination that shows 1,000 WBCs, 75% of which are lymphocytes and 25% are monocytes
What is Viral meningitis?
300
Troponin C, Troponin I, and Troponin T
What is the Troponin Complex?
300
This organism is a Gram-positive, beta-hemolytic bacillus and is associated with infections in neonates, pregnant women, elderly adults, and outbreaks of food contamination
What is Listeria monocytogenes?
300
A patient's red cells type as follows:
Anti D= 4+
Anti-C= 0
Anti-E= 0
This typing is consistent with the following genotype
What is R0R0?
300
This visible serological reaction occurs when soluble antigen combines with soluble antibody
What is precipitation?
300
This test should be performed to investigate a prolonged PTT when the PT and Thrombin Clotting Time (TCT) are normal
What is a mixing study
400
This is an important consideration that requires the use of current, best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.
What is evidence-based practice (EBP)?
400
These linear projections ( shown at the arrow) are composed of primary azurophilic granules and can be seen in the cytoplasm of myeloblasts and monoblasts.
What are Auer Rods?
400
This renal disorder is associated with leukocyturia, bacteriuria, and various urinary casts.
What is Pyelonephritis?
400
This SPE pattern shows a sharp peak in the gamma region due to an increase in one immunoglobulin
What is monoclonal gammopathy?
400
A child was bitten on the arm by her sibling and the resulting wound grew a slender Gram-negative bacillus. This organism grew as clear colonies with pits on blood agar, had a bleach like odor and was catalase-negative, oxidase-positive
What is Eikenella corrodens?
400
This red cell type is most commonly found in the African American donor population
What is Fy(a-b-)
400
This protozoan parasitic infection if acquired by a pregnant female can cause central nervous system malformations (CNS) in the form of hydrocephaly and microcephaly in the newborn. Felines are the definitive host.
What is Toxoplasma gondii?
400
This factor assay can be performed to help distinguish liver disease from vitamin K deficiency
What is a Factor V assay?
500
This is the phase of laboratory testing that involves specimen collection, transport, and storage.
What is the preanalytical phase?
500
This is the most likely designation by the WHO for a patient with AML M2 by the FAB classification
What is AML with t(8;21)?
500
Identify this urinary microscopic element
What is a WBC cast?
500
The presence Of C-reactive protein represents this.
What is an inflammatory process?
500
This organism is observed on chocolate agar, but can only grow on blood agar as a satellite in hemolytic zone of Staphylococcus aureus. This organism does not grow on MacConkey agar, but is a Gram-negative coccobacillus with a positive oxidase reaction
What is Haemophilus influenzae?
500
A recipient with group A phenotype requires a transfusion of fresh frozen plasma (FFP). Which donor blood types of FFP are compatible with the recipient?
What are Group A and AB?
500
This X-linked immunodeficiency disorder is characterized by a defect in NADPH oxidase
What is Chronic Granulomatous Disease?
500
This coagulopathy presents with a normal PT, markedly prolonged APTT, markedly decreased Factor VIII activity, and a normal platelet count and bleeding time
What is Classic Hemophilia A?