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 hand 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 tube?
SPS
What color tube is for lead testing?
Tan
Which tube needs to be filled to the line?
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
Other than a tourniquet, what can you do to make a vein more prominent?
Warm up the site, gravity, have patient make a fist
You should never leave the tourniquet tied on the patient's arm for longer than what?
1 minute
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 (gold/Tiger)
What determines if you can do a dermal puncture or not?
Tests ordered/ condition or age of patient
How many times can you stick a patient before getting help?
Two
What is the first thing you do if a patient passes out?
Remove the needle!
If a patient has an IV in one arm, where do you draw?
The other arm, or distal to the IV
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
What two tests cannot be performed on a finger stick?
PT/PTT and blood cultures