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A patient can't eat or drink food or water for a specified time, the patient is?
A.) fasting
B.) NPO
NPO
When is the best time to collect blood cultures?
just before a fever spikes
When drawing blood cultures with a winged blood collection set, which bottle do you inoculate first?
aerobic
When do we start the timing for an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)?
as soon as the glucose drink is complete
Donna Martin and Kelly Taylor played on what famous 90's show?
90210
When is a trough level drawn, and when is a peak level drawn?
trough is 30 minutes before the next dose of medication and the peak level drawn after the dose is given
The artery on the thumb side of the wrist?
radial
diurnal variation is associated with?
blood cultures
timed collections
fasting samples
timed collections
Why are cortisol levels drawn between 8-10am?
diurnal variation
What technique is most important when collecting blood cultures?
aseptic technique
What do we draw in order to monitor therapeutic drug levels?
peak and trough levels
When drawing blood with a syringe you inoculate the aerobic bottle first? True or False
False
you can inoculate the anaerobic
Why are blood cultures sometimes ordered stat?
because the concentration of microorganisms is highest just before the temperature spikes
The artery located near the basilica vein and the median nerve?
brachial
When collecting blood for a patient having a 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test, how many blood total samples are collected?
two hours
A fasting sample and a sample two hours after they drink the glucose
blood cultures are drawn to detect what?
septicemia
being kept warm
Name two reasons a doctor would order a glucose tolerance test? What two things could you be ruling out?
hypoglycemia
diabetes mellitus
Beta-carotene, vitamin A, and bilirubin should be protected from?
light
Name 2 out of the 3 things that should be documented on a label when drawing a peak and trough
time the medication was given
method of medication administration
time the sample was drawn
What does sodium polyanetholsulfonate in blood culture bottles do?
prevent clotting
When is a trough level drawn?
30 minutes PRIOR to drug administration
Why do some blood culture bottles contain a resin?
to inactivate antibiotics
What color tubes are OGTT tests collected in?
gray
Cold agglutinins were placed in the cold instead of the warm. Test results will be falsely increased? True or False
False-falsely decreased