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Order of Draw, Additives
100

Government agency that mandates and enforces safe working conditions.

OSHA

100

This color on the DOD Dimond placards represents health hazards.  

Blue

100

What is the difference between arteries and veins.

Arteries are muscular, and they pulse with the heart. They carry oxygen rich blood away from the heart. Veins are elastic, they carry deoxygentated blood back to the heart.

100
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.
100

What is the additive in the light blue tube?

Sodium citrate, Na citrate

200

To examine by feel or touch.

Palpate

200

What is the term for a healthcare acquired infection

Nosocomial infection

200
What are the layers of a vein?
Tunica adventitia Tunica Media Tunica Intima
200
What type of cleaning agent is used to clean the skin in preparation for venipuncture? Give an Example.
Antiseptics are safe for use on people, Alcohol, Chloro-prep, and Iodine.
200

When drawing blood cultures, which tube should be draw first? Aerobic, or Anaerobic? Which Tube should be drawn if you can only obtain one blood culture?

Aerobic

300

An Infectious microorganism in blood or other body fluids

Blood-Borne Pathogen

300
What is the best way to reduce the spread of infection?
Washing hands
300
What is the name of the blood vessels that carry blood back from the lungs to the heart.
Pulmonary Veins
300

this is a closed system which blood flows through a needle inserted into a vein then directly into a collection tube without Being exposed to the air or outside contaminants.

Evacuated Tube System (ETS)

300
What is the additive in the pink tube? What color tube can it replace if you were to run out?
EDTA, lavendar
400

A portion of specimen used for testing.

Aliquot 

400

The Joint Commission requires every healthcare institution to have this program responsible for protecting patients, employees, visitors, and anyone doing business within health care institutions from infection. 

Infection control Program

400
Left Atrium
This heart chamber receives blood returning from the lungs.
400
Someone who has an allergy to shellfish may also be allergic to what antiseptic?
Iodine
400
What anticoagulant is contained in a PST tube?
Heparin
500

Inert synthetic gel in some ETS tubes that forms a barrier between the cells and serum or plasma when the specimen is centrifuged. 

Thixotropic Gel

500

The six key components or "links in the chain of infection.

What is:

An Infectious Agent

A Reservoir

An Exit Pathway

A Means of Transmission

A Entry Pathway

A Susceptible Host

500
The heart gets its blood supply from the:
Coronary arteries
500
What does a transillumination device perform?
This machine passes light through organ walls. These can be used to help find difficult or deep veins, (vein finder).
500
List the order of draw by color and additive.
Sterile - Blood cultures Light blue - Na Citrate Red - Clot activator SST - Clot activator Green - Heparin PST - Heparin Lavendar - EDTA Pink - EDTA Gray - Glycolitic inhibitor