Tubes
Additivies
Special Handling
Vocabulary
Lab Test
100

The tube with sodium citrate

What is the light blue tube?

100

The tube with EDTA

What is the lavender top tube

100

Test that is sensitive to light

What is bilirubin test?

100

Urine is collected all day.

What is a 24 hour urine specimen

100

GTT means

What is a glucose tolerance test

200

The tube that require sterile technique

What is blood cultures?

200

What tube has sodium fluoride or potassium oxalate

What is the gray top tube

200

Tests that are placed on a ice slurry

What is a ammonia or lactic acid tests?

200

Test where you swab the inside cheeks

What is a buccal swab

200

The degree of angle for a venipuncture

What is 15-30 degrees angle?

300

The tube used for nutritional testing

What is the royal blue tube

300

What tube has sodium or lithium heparin

What is the green top tube

300

The blood test done on infants at 24 hours of age

What is a PKU test

300

Test used to test for blood in the stool

What is fecal occult blood testing

300

Leaving the tourniquet on too long causes the blood

What is hemoconcentration?

400

The tube used for blood bank testing for type & cross screening

What is the lavender tube

400

What tube is used for stat labs

What is the orange top tube

400

Test that done to test the carbon dioxide and oxygen exchange in the lungs

What is blood gas testing? 

400

Fingers used to do a dermal stick

What are the middle and ring fingers?

400

The tube used to draw an ESR?

What is the lavender top tube?

500

The tube used for paternity testing

What is the yellow top tube

500

What tube is used to test glucose level 

What is gray top tube

500

The letters in POC mean

What is Point Of Care Testing 

500

Legal test that requires the patient to show an ID

What is chain of custody

500

When inflating the blood pressure cuff on a patient to use as a tourniquet; the cuff should inflate no higher than

What is 40 mmHg?