Tube Additive
EDTA is in what color tube? Name all 3
Lav, pink, pearl
When is the proper time to do inversions?
within 30 seconds
Pumping is acceptable practice when preforming a venipuncture? T/F
False
Two forms of Identification needed for specimen labeling.
Name and DOB
What is the 1st order of draw?
Blood culture
Which tube color has no additive
Red
Lavendar
8-10
Pumping the fist increases what enzyme?
K+
Where do you place the tourniquet on the patients' arm?
2-4" above the venipuncture site.
What comes after a blood culture if there is no light blue to be taken?
Glass red
What tube color has heprin? Name both and their additive
Green- lithium and sodium
Blood culture
8-10
Inflamed vein
How long does the touniquet stay on the arm?
no more than 1 minute
What is the last tube in order of draw for the extended version
Yellow
What additive is used in a light blue tube?
Sodium Citrite
Red name both
glass -0
plastic 5-6
Phlebitis and Thrombophlebitis are known as what?
If the tourniquet is left on for too long, what happens to the blood?
becomes hemoconcentrated.
For GTT and Lactic Acid what tube is used?
Gray tube
What additive is used in a gray tube?
Sodium Oxalate
Sodium Citrate
3-4
What are the other 2 terms used for Hematoma? And what is a hematoma?
tissue contusion and bruise
Which vein is the most used vein? What are all 3 veins and the order of which they should be drawn?
Median cubital. M<C<B
What is before a gray but after a green tube
Lavendar