Tubes
LAB TIPS
SKIN
Orthopedic
NEURO
100
This has sodium citrate as the additive. It is used to check the levels of anticoagulant therapy.
What is the blue top tube?
100
The amount of time you have after obtaining a urine sample before transporting to lab or refridgeration.
What is one hour?
100
Infestations with lice.
What is pidiculosis?
100
Connects muscle to bone.
What is ligaments?
100
May cause dizziness, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, can be very serious and needs medical intervention.
What is a head injury?
200
This tube has sodium heparin or lithium heparin. Used for chemistries amoung other labs.
What is the green top tube?
200
This sample will be used in a court case. What process must be followed for the results to be admissible in court?
What is chain of custody?
200
Area of skin or tissue torn partially away.
What is an avulsion?
200
Connect muscle to muscle.
What are tendons?
200
Nerve cell
What is the neuron?
300
Has the additive EDTA and used for whole blood testing.
What is the lavender top tube?
300
Where the identifying lable must be placed on a specimen cup after securing the top.
What is the area around the cup itself?
300
arm, leg or any part thereof being torn or cut away.
What is amputation?
300
Type of fracture caused by pulling and twisting the arm or leg. Often seen in abuse cases.
What is a sprial fracture?
300
Insulating layer that forms around nerves including those in the brain and spinal cord.
What is the myelin sheath?
400
This is the last tube drawn and is used for glucose tolerance testing.
What is the gray top tube?
400
Material used to sew up incisions that does not have to be removed.
What is sutures that dissolve?
400
The systematic way of looking at an area of the skin to determine if the change is significant.
What is the A, B, C, D rule? asymetry, border, color, diameter?
400
Type of fracture that does not completely break the bone but frays one side. Seen mostly in young bones.
What is a greenstick fracture.
400
layers covering the brain.
What are the pia, anarachnoid, and dura?
500
The correct order to draw when using the most common 7 test tubes.
What is yellow, red, light blue, marble, green, lavender and gray?
500
Although considered sutures, these are metal.
What are staples?
500
Your physician will call hives by this name.
What is utacaria?
500
The process of realigning the fractured bone ends. Can be open or closed.
What is reduction?
500
Blood collected under the outermost layer of the brain
What is a subdural hematoma?