Needle
What is the additive in the light green tube?
Lithium Heparin
Where do you look if there are no veins in the antecubital?
Dorsal veins
If a patient sticks out their arm after you have told them you are there to draw their blood, what type of consent is that?
Implied consent
What is the most important step when drawing a patient?
Patient identification
What additive is in a blood culture bottle?
SPS
What color tube is used for a peripheral blood smear, and how long to you have to make the smear after drawing?
Lavender/1 hour
Which tube needs to be filled to the line?
Light Blue Top
You draw blood on an unconscious patient under what type of consent?
Implied consent
Which department tests the blood cultures?
Microbiology
What is the destruction of RBC's called?
Hemolysis
Which tube goes to blood bank and what is the additive?
Pink/EDTA
What is the purpose of an anticoagulant?
Prevents clotting
Warm up the site
The doctor orders a 3hr GTT, how many times will the patient be poked?
4 times
Where is the first place you would try to draw blood on a newborn?
Heel
Which tube yields serum and contains a gel barrier?
SST
What determines if you can do a dermal puncture or not?
Tests ordered
Explain the 2hrPP test process
Draw a fasting level, have the pt go eat a full meal, return to be drawn 2 hours after the meal. No exercising, no eating or drinking after the meal
Name at least one diagnosis in which a pt may need therapeutic phlebotomy?
Polycythemia, hemochromatosis
Which department has strict specimen labeling protocols?
Blood Bank
What tube is used for glucose tolerance testing?
Gray
Small red spots on a patients arm after tying a tourniquet is called what?
Petechiae
What is it called when someone is donating their own blood for future use?
Autologous donation
You are collecting a H&H and an electrolyte panel on a patient by a dermal puncture. Which color tube would you draw first?
Lavender
Name two tests cannot be performed on a finger stick?
PT/PTT and blood cultures (other answers accepted)