Order of draw additives
What additive is in the gray tube?
Potassium Oxalte
What is the name for a healthcare acquired infection?
Nosocomial infection
Machine used to spin or separate blood?
centrifuge
What do you do with the tubes once your done performing a draw?
They are labeled with name, date,time,and initial.
Name the veins your can perform a venipuncture?
The most site for venipuncture is the antecubital fossa located in the anterior elbow at the fold. This area houses three veins: the cephalic, median cubital, and basilic veins
EDTA is in what tube?
Lavender
What is a way to reduce spreading an infection?
Washing your hands
Where is the bevel located in the needle?
The slanted, sharpened edge of the needle tip that facilitates the penetration of the skin, muscle, or blood vessel.
What is it called when you touch a site for a venipuncture?
Palpate
The major artery leaving the heart that takes oxygenated blood to the body?
an aorta
Which tube contains Sodium citrate?
Light blue
What is the biggest blood borne transmitted disease that phlebotomist have to be careful with?
Hepatitis B
What is the butterfly method?
Small or fragile veins.
What is steps to take when a hematoma develops?
Stop draw immediately, apply pressure, and apply ice packs
What is the name of the blood vessels that carry blood back from the lungs to the heart.
Pulmonary veins
List the order of draw by additives?
SPS, Sodium citrate, No additive,Heparin, EDTA, Potassium Oxalate, ACD
why is the syringe method rarely used in with drawing blood?
risk of cross contamination.
In a successful venipuncture, evacuated tubes fill automatically as soon as the tube stopper is pierced because...?
The premeasured vacuum in each tube decides the amount of blood.
Where do you draw if a patient has had a double mastectomy?
Ask the patient where to draw blood from, and confirm with the doctor. You may have to draw from a foot, or draw without a tourniquet.
This heart chamber receives blood returning from the lungs.
The yellow tube is used for paternity testing, so what additive is in the tube?
ACD (Acid citrate dextrose)
Name a site restriction?
mastectomy, ports or fistulas.
Someone who has an allergy to shellfish may also be allergic to what antiseptic?
Iodine
What do you do if the vein has collapsed?
Release the tourniquet, change to a butterfly if suction is too strong for vein or use a syringe
Where does the heart get its blood from?
Coronary arteries