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The Basics
Tools of the Trade
Complications and Stuff
Specimens and Patients
Anatomy
100
The most common patient identifiers
What is name and DOB?
100
used to restrict circulation not stop it
What is the tourniquet?
100
reason why the lab rejected your half full blue tube
What is 9:1 ratio of anticoagulant to blood?
100
Information found on label of all blood tubes
What is Patient's name and DOB, the date and time it was drawn, and the phlebotomist's initials.
100
blood vessels taking blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
200
Antiseptic used for blood culture collection
What is iodine or chlorhexidine?
200
it says what happens in the lab stays in the lab
What is HIPPA?
200
this can happen if you don't hold adequate pressure on the site of the venipuncture
What is a hematoma?
200
this sample must be protected from the light
What is bilirubin?
200
the body's dynamic steady state of health
What is homeostasis?
300
The process that takes place after the tourniquet is in place for more than one minute
What is hemoconcentration?
300
the part of a winged collection device that is used with the evacuated tube system
What is the luer device?
300
removing more than this amount of blood from a child can cause cardiac arrest
What is 10% of the child's blood volume?
300
it should be transported on ice
What is ammonia?
300
vertical plane dividing the body into right an left sides
What is the sagittal plane?
400
The term for a person that is in a resting state
What is basal state?
400
after spinning you make smaller samples
What are aliquots?
400
cause tingling sensation when the needle is inserted
What is hitting a nerve?
400
it needs to be drawn into a warm tube and then transported in a warmer as well
What is a sample for a patient with cold agglutinins?
400
the normal pH of the body
What is 7.35-7.45?
500
acceptable form of patient consent in an emergency where the patient is unresponsive
What is implied consent?
500
used to assess collateral circulation in blood gas testing
What is the Modified Allen's Test?
500
caused by shaking the tube instead of gently inverting it
What is hemolysis?
500
what you should do if the patient refuses
What is notify the physician or nurse that the patient refused?
500
where the blood goes immediately after it leaves the right ventricle
What is the lungs?