Terms
Blood in urine
What is hematuria
Reagent
What is a chemically coated strip used in urine and ketone monitoring
Electrocardiography
What is records electrical impulses produced by the heart?
The lens in the eyepiece typically magnifies the image by a factor of
What is 10x
Created in response to public concern over the accuracy of laboratory testing?
What is Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988
Spirometer
What is an instrument used to measure the air taken in by and expelled from the lungs
Failure of the kidneys to produce urine
What is anuria
How long can urine sit at room temperature before performing testing on it?
What is 1 hour
SA Node
What is the pacemaker of the heart
Controls the amount of light that passes through the slide for viewing
What is the diaphragm
Laboratories that perform moderate-complexity tests
What is must be run by a doctor
Pulmonary function tests are useful in monitoring this disease
What is COPD
Insufficient production of urine
What is oliguria
Measures the concentration of substances dissolved in urine
What is specific gravity
A test is used to assess the electrical activity of a patient's heart over a 24-hour period of normal activity?
What is Holter monitor
A study of microorganisms
What is microbiology
Reference laboratory
What is a laboratory owned by a company other than the physician's practice
A device used to measure the amount of oxygen
What is a pulse oximeter
QNS
What is quantity not sufficient
When is HCG found in urine
What is during pregnancy
Atrial depolarization is represented on an ECG tracing by the
What is P wave
A part of an optical microscope that contains a magnifying lens
What is objective
Calibration of equipment
What is making sure equipment is operating correctly and accurate results
Pulmonary function tests
What is measures and evaluates a patient's lung capacity and volume
One of the first signs of liver disease?
What is bilirubinuria
The most common type of urine sample?
What is random urine specimen
The precordial electrode is placed in the 4th intercostal space to the left of the sternum?
What is V2
A foreign object that is visible through a microscope, but is unrelated to the specimen and may be misinterpreted when the specimen is examined, is a(n)
What is an artifact
Routine tests are most often performed at the physician’s office laboratory (POL) are
What is chemistry and hematology tests
The purpose of oxygen administration?
What is to increases the amount of oxygen your lungs receive and deliver to your blood
Turbidity
What is describing urine that is cloudy or hazy
A clean-catch midstream urine specimen
What is a method of collecting a urine specimen is used when performing a urine culture to identify the number and the types of pathogens present?
Ventricular fibrillation
What is a life-threatening dysrhythmia that results in no cardiac output
An item that all laboratories must have on file for all chemicals stored/used in the lab
What is safety data sheet (SDS)
The purpose of control samples that are run in the POL
What is to serve as a check on the accuracy of the test.
Type of breathing that indicates a laryngeal obstruction
What is stridor
A lab test uses samples of whole blood to identify problems with the count, size, or shape of blood cells that could indicate disease?
What is hematologic test
Commonly found in the urine of diabetic patients
What is glucose
The views that are recorded on an electrocardiogram that are produced by the electrical activity of the heart are
What is leads
Guidelines for Standard Precautions
What is wear eye protection and face masks when there is a risk that droplets or spray may come in contact with your eyes, nose, or mouth.
This must accompany every specimen that leaves the POL
What is a lab requisition
Amount of air inhaled and exhaled during normal respiration
What is tidal volume
The Epstein-Barr virus causes
What is Infectious mononucleosis
Chain of custody is obtained for which type of test
What is drug and alcohol tests
A pen-like instrument that records impulse movement on the ECG paper
What is a stylus
Histology
What is microscopic study of cells, tissues, and organs
An advantage of completing laboratory tests in the physician’s office laboratory (POL)
What is faster turnaround time for finding out results
Measurement used to determine the amount of air that can be quickly forced from the lungs
What is Peak Expiratory Flow Rate
The process that promotes growth of microbial or tissue cultures in a controlled environment
What is incubation
A device for spinning a specimen at high speed until it separates into its component parts
What is a centrifuge
During an EKG this happens because of muscle movement during shifting of position, tremors or talking
What is somatic interference
Equipment used to magnify objects not visible to the naked eye
What is microscope
Information included on a lab requisition
What is Pt's insurance, Doctor information, Clinical Dx, Source of specimen, time and date of specimen collection, Pt age and gender, special collection Pt instructions, and urgency of results
The plural form of bronchus
What is bronchi