Lab Safety
The acronym PASS is used to teach lab staff how to use this safety device.
What is a Fire Extinguisher?
Occurs when the quality control results are all distributed on one side of the mean or the other
What is a shift?
What are eosinophils?
What are Ion Selective Electrodes (ISEs)?
A total laboratory automation system providing rapid and consistent turnaround time, comprehensive pre-analytical sample quality detection, and fewer manual processing steps.
What is the DXA 5000?
This has reduced turn-around times by at least 50%
What is the DXA 5000?
From 1930 to 2010, this was the tallest building in Cincinnati.
What is the Carew Tower?
To properly wash your hands, it is recommended to sing this common tune.
What is the Alphabet song or Happy Birthday?
A graph that quality control data is plotted on to give a visual indication whether a laboratory test is working well.
What is a Levy-Jennings chart?
In general, the RBC x 3 = Hgb and Hgb x 3 = Hct
What is the rule of 3?
A method to measure how much a chemical substance absorbs light by measuring the intensity of light as a beam of light passes through sample solution.
What is Spectrophotometry?
A middleware solution for today's clinical laboratories, bridging laboratory information systems (LIS) and instrumentation.
What is Remisol Advance?
The year Bethesda North Lab opened
What is 1970?
The "Hits King" Pete Rose's hit record.
What is 4,256?
The study of people in their working environment.
What is ergonomics?
A rule set of statistical patterns, each being unlikely to occur by random variability, thereby raising a suspicion of faulty accuracy or precision of the measurement system.
What are Westgard Rules?
This principle detection and measurement of changes in electrical resistance produced by a particle or cell suspended in a conductive liquid traversing through a small aperture.
What is the Coulter principle?
K+ = 13.0 mmol/L
Ca = 2.5 mg/dL
What is EDTA contamination?
Clinical chemistry analyzer is the latest innovation in a line of reliable chemistry systems for the mid- to high-volume laboratory.
What is the DxC 700 AU?
Bethesda North Lab is the only hospital in Ohio to be affiliated with this prestigious health system?
What is the Cleveland Clinic?
The original name for Cincinnati.
What is Losantiville?
Microorganisms or viruses that cause disease after exposure and are present in human blood.
What are Blood Borne Pathogens?
A measure of how dispersed the data is in relation to the mean
What is Standard Deviation?
What is Monocyte Distribution Width (MDW)?
A process that is used to demonstrate the suitability of an analytical method for an intended purpose.
What is Method Validation?
An American electrical engineer, inventor, and businessman. The best known of his 85 patents involves impedence, which provides a method for counting and sizing microscopic particles suspended in fluid.
Who was Wallace Coulter?
The year Bethesda North Lab joined TriHealth.
What is 1995?
This famous astronaut was a professor at the University of Cincinnati.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
Documents that describe the physical and health hazards of chemicals or chemical-containing products
What are Safety Data Sheets (SDS)?
A quality control protocol that uses patient results to monitor the performance of an instrument system.
What is a moving average?
Pink or red-stained needle-shaped structures seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid cells
What are Auer Rods?
The emission of photons when chemically excited molecules decay to ground state following a chemical reaction.
What is chemiluminescence?
In 1934, he invented the pH meter while a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Who is Dr. Arnold Beckman?
In 2022, Bethesda North Lab performed this number of tests. (100,000 tests overbudget)
What is 1.2 Million tests?
The state of Ohio produced 8 US presidents. This many were from the greater Cincinnati area.
What is 3? (B. Harrison, U.S. Grant, W.H. Taft)