I Don't Clot
This anticoagulant is in the lavender tube.
What is EDTA?
This plane divides the body into right and left sections.
What is sagittal?
Patient tells you they have fainted during venipuncture.
What is Needle Phobia?
How do you apply alcohol to the venipuncture site?
What is in a circular fashion working from the center of the arm and outward?
This anticoagulant binds calcium.
What is citrate and EDTA?
The Green tube contains this.
What is heparin?
What plane divides the body into front and back sections?
What is coronal?
Lower yourself to their level and explain what you are doing using age appropriate terms.
What is a Pediatric patient?
When do you release the tourniquet?
What is "When blood starts flowing into the tube"?
This additive preserves glucose.
What is potassium oxalate?
The blue top tube contains what anticoagulant?
What is sodium citrate?
What is the area of the arm where phlebotomy is performed?
What is the anti-cubital fossa?
May have physical impairments or effects of disease that my require speaking slower, allowing time for questions, or choosing different equipment for venipuncture.
Geriatric
What is it called when you hold the vein to keep it from rolling?
What is anchoring?
This anticoagulant inhibits thrombin.
What is heparin?
This tube contains no additive.
What is a red top?
Which vein lies closest to your body?
What is the basilic vein?
You cannot collect venipuncture from the same arm as the aterio-venus shunt or fistula.
What is a dialysis patient?
What do we do before throwing away the needle in the sharps container?
What is close the needle guard?
What is in sterile yellow top tubes that allows the blood to be used for blood cultures?
What is ACD?
What is in a gray top tube that prevents glycolysis?
What is potassium oxalate?
Which is the preferred vein for venipuncture?
What is the median cubital?
Can you draw blood from the same side that had a mastectomy?
What is NO?
The slanted cut on a needle to help with ease of insertion and must always be upward.
What is the bevel?
Why is it forbidden to pour blood from one tube to another?
What is contamination?