causative agent of a disease (ex. Bacteria, Viruses, Parasites, amoeba...)
What is a pathogen?
100
Provides a uniform system or method of describing physical quantities
What is Systeme International D’Unites (SI Units)?
100
Expel noxious and hazardous fumes from chemical reagents
What are Fume hoods?
100
Liquid portion of clotted blood
What is Serum?
100
Type of errors that are unavoidable but recognizable
What are Random errors?
200
carried or transmitted by blood (ex. AIDS/HIV)
What is a blood borne disease?
200
Number of moles expressed per 1 liter of solution
What is Molarity?
200
Recirculates filtered air into the laboratory
What are Biosafety Cabinets?
200
Method of choice for pedriatic and geriatric patients, extremely obese adults, severe burn patients, and those with thrombotic tendencies (bleeding disorders)
What is skin puncture?
200
Proportion of individuals without a condition who have a negative test for that condition
What is Diagnostic Specificity?
300
ability to determine the true and known value of a substance
What is accuracy?
300
Amount of solute per 1 kg of solvent
What is Molality?
300
Generated through nuclear reactions by very high temperature, via production of high energy particles or due to acceleration of charged particles by electromagnetic fields
What is Ionizing Radiation?
300
Increases plasma catecholamines from adrenal medulla and the brain tissue
What is Caffeine?
300
Range of results between two medical decision points that correspond to the central 95% of results from a healthy patient population
What is Normal Range?
400
measures biochemical compounds to detect abnormalities on the levels of such compounds
What is Clinical Chemistry?
400
density of a substance over density of water at a given temperature (g/mL)
What is Specific Gravity?
400
•Presumption that all human blood, tissue and most fluids are infectious for transmission of human immunodeficiency, Hepatitis B virus, and other blood borne pathogens
What is Universal Precaution?
400
Increases with exercise (diurnal rhythm)
What is Thyroxine?
400
It is a system designed to increase the probability that each result reported by the laboratory is valid and can be used with confidence by the physician making a diagnostic or therapeutic decision
What is Quality Control?
500
Deliver accurate and precise laboratory information; and Provide reliable laboratory results
What are the roles of medical technologists?
500
Multiple dilutions ranging from more concentrated solutions to less concentrated solutions
What is Serial Dilution?
500
Used in the field work where Biosafety Cabinet is not feasible/appropriate to install
What is Negative Pressure Flexible Film Isolator?
500
higher with stress (diurnal rhythm)
What is Prolactin?
500
It is a comprehensive set of policies and procedures developed to ensure the accuracy and reliability of laboratory testing