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Most routine and diagnostic blood tests are performed on this type of blood.
What is venous?
A needle that is inserted into a patient's arm at this angle has a greater chance of hitting an artery or nerve than a needle inserted at a lower angle.
What is 45-degrees?
Because it is usually calloused.
What is why the index finger is not used for capillary collection?
Best method for keeping a specimen chilled.
What is place it in a mixture of crushed ice and water?
A tourniquet should remain off the patient's arm before it is reapplied for this period of time if the tourniquet has been left on beyond one minute.
What is 2 minutes?
When the first drop of blood from a finger stick should be wiped away.
What is for most tests?
In order to draw blood from these areas for venipuncture, the PBT must obtain the written permission of the patient's doctor for venipuncture.
What is ankle or foot?
Toward the top of the finger, on the fleshy part to either side.
What is where on the finger should a capillary puncture be performed?
QNS.
What is quantity not sufficient?
This type of tube is filled first for capillary collections if no blood gases are ordered.
What are EDTA tubes?
Collection tubes should not be used past this date.
Warm a capillary puncture site for this period of time.
What is 3-5 minutes?
Short for Laboratory information system.
What is LIS?
A blade-style lancet should be positioned to cut this position to the patient’s fingerprints.
What is perpendicular?
Most reliable way to locate a good site for venipuncture.
What is palpate the site?
Do not do this to the collection device on the patient's skin or do this to the patient's finger to ensure a high-quality specimen.
What is scrape and milk?
First priority if patient has a seizure during a blood draw?
What is keep patient safe from injury?
Name of the infection that may be caused if a lancet strikes bone.
What is osteomyelitis?
The specimen must be allowed to clot prior to this procedure.
What is centrifugation?
Newborn metabolic screenings are performed because of this.
What is because these illnesses can be treated successfully in infancy?
3-4 inches above puncture site.
What is where to apply tourniquet?
All facilities require this for site cleaning prior to blood culture.
What is extra contact time between the agent and the patient's skin?
Capillary collection will not yield a large enough specimen for this test.
A vein that a needle has passed completely through is called this.
What is blown vein?
One blood specimen tube may be used to perform this many analytes.
What is more than one analyte?
These types of common laboratory equipment are used to create a peripheral blood smear.
What are two microscope slides?
A time when a PBT conducting point-of-care PT/INR testing can make recommendations regarding a patient’s warfarin dose.
What is this is beyond the PBT's scope of practice?