QC Troubleshooting
Delta failures, clogged probes, and incomplete panels, are problems that can occur when a tech forgets to check for this alliterative error.
What is a short sample?
The abbreviation "STAT" has this meaning in medicine.
What is the Latin word statim, meaning "immediately." (Also acceptable "rush" or "urgent")
This is where we dispose of broken glass ampules.
What is the Sharps container.
Found just outside of Cleveland, this is Ohio’s only national park.
What is Cuyahoga Valley National Park?
An analyte, with a critical value measurement on the high and low end of the AMR, commonly cancelled due to hemolysis.
What is Potassium?
This form is used when QC results are out 3SD's with multiple bottles.
What is a failed run tracker?
Rasburicase is a medication that lowers levels of this chemistry tested analyte.
What is Uric Acid?
The letter "A" in the acronym "P.A.S.S", important when using a fire extinguisher.
What is "Aim"?
After he opened an Italian restaurant in Cleveland 1924, when customers asked for his recipes he got this idea for the canned pasta company.
Who/ What is Chef Boyardee?
HSGC Gas cylinders should be replaced before the gauge reaches this pressure.
What is 500psi?
ISE's give a moving average warning for sodium. This software is utilized to find the best ISE in the room, to run patient comparisons.
What is Unity?
Manually entry is required for this STAT analyte, if it does not arrive on ice.
What is Ammonia/ NH3?
This acronym reminds us how to judge if someone is having a stroke.
What is F.A.S.T.? (Face, Arms, Speech, Time)
This river, which runs through northeast Ohio, has caught fire at least 13 times. The most famous instance occurred in 1969.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
Samples received in Blood Gas Lab with a yellow label from the CPET lab, do not require calls for this type of result.
What are Urgent Values?
This job aid provides a list of the amount of Quality Control material required when maintenance is complete.
This label gives the highest priority designation to a sample, and acts as a warning to techs to monitor turn around time of the sample.
What is a Stoke label?
Performing First Aid, Calling Occ Health, noting a specimen that splashed an employee, and notifying leadership, are all steps in this.
What is the Exposure protocol
In 1967, the Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Rene Favaloro removed a vein from a patient’s leg and used it to route blood flow around a blocked coronary artery, achieving a landmark in this now-common type of heart surgery.
What is Bypass?
This chemistry test can assist in the detection of sepsis and can be used to distinguish between viral and bacterial infection.
What is Procalcitonin?
This job aid alerts you to when a vial of QC or Calibrator should be disposed of following being opened.
What is the "QC and Reagent Stability Job Aid?
This is the only analyte with "stat" in the name. Ironically, it is not available on the STAT line.
What is cystatin?
This annual Training reminds us to: avoid eating in the lab, avoid touching personal cell phones with gloves, and to always wear your PPE.
What is Blood Borne Pathogen?
Hasbro unveiled the new Cleveland Monopoly Board, sharing adjoining spaces with "Edgewater Beach" and "The Cleveland Sign" they all have this color square.
What is Yellow?
On 10/18/23 the Blood Gas Lab surpassed its daily sample record with 1754 samples. Only to be surpassed on 10/19/23 with this number.
What is 1829 samples?