It is the major source of safety information for employees who may use hazardous materials in their occupations.
What is a Material Safety Data Sheet?
100
It is the method of blood collection which collects more than 1mL of blood.
What is Macromethod?
100
It is the set of policies and procedures to ensure accuracy and reliability.
What is Quality Assurance?
100
It is the federal regulation enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1970 which has a goal to provide a safe work environment for all employees (clinical laboratory employees included).
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Act/Public Law 91-596?
200
These are the characteristics of a reliable result.
What are accurate, precise, specific and sensitive?
200
It is a hazardous chemical which affects the cellular development in a fetus or embryo.
What is a teratogen?
200
It is a fluid consisting of lymphatic fluid and chylomicrons that has a milky appearance. It is usually present in the serum when the patient has recently eaten.
What is chyle?
200
It is a pair of medical decision points that span the limits of results expected for a given condition.
What is Reference Interval?
200
It defines hazardous substances and provides guidance for evaluating and communicating identified hazards.
What is a "HazCom Standard"?
300
It is the system of units preferred in the scientific literature and clinical laboratories and is the only system used in many countries.
What is Systeme Internationale d'Unites (SI)?
300
These are the components used in Class C fire extinguishers.
What are Carbon dioxide, Halon and Dry Chemical?
300
It is the additive present in the collection tube which causes the least interference in tests other than coagulation tests.
What is Heparin?
300
It is a statistical test that assumes that the observed values, or some mathematical transformation of those values, follows a (normal) Gaussian distribution.
What is Parametric method?
300
It is the committee which provides excellent general and infection control guidelines in their documents GP17-A2. (Provide the former name)
What is National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS)?
400
It is a substance of lower purity with concentration determined by comparison with a primary standard
What is a secondary standard?
400
It is a type of Biologic Safety Cabinet which supply air inlets and exhaust through 2 HEPA filters.
What is Class III Biologic Safety Cabinet?
400
It is a vascular access device (VAD) which is a catheter connected to a stopcock, or a cap with a diaphragm, through which medication is given or blood is drawn. It is typically placed in a lower forearm vein.
What is Heparin/Saline lock?
400
It is a range of values that include a specified probability, usually 90% or 95%. It serves to convey the variability of estimates and to quantify the variability.
What is Confidence interval?
400
It is used to minimize employee exposure. It must be available to all employees whose reasonable anticipated duties may result in occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials.
What is a written exposure control plan?
500
These are the four ways to express the concentration of a solution.
What are percent solution, molarity, normality and normality?
500
It is the law published by OSHA which was developed for employees who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals.
What is the Right to Know Law/Hazard Communication Standard?
500
It is the procedural error risk encountered when one accidentally sticks an artery, often a result of deep or blind probing or attempting to draw from the basilic vein.
What is an Inadvertent Arterial Puncture?
500
It is the difference between the observed mean and reference mean.
What is Bias?
500
It is the special waste from health care facilities and is further defined as solid waste that, if improperly treated or handled, "may transmit infectious diseases".