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That's complicated
The platinum collection
What's your handle?
The process is its own reward
100
The required number of mL necessary to yield 1.5mL of serum.
What is 3mL?
100
Number one complication of venipuncture?
What is hematoma?
100
Interval for blotting blood during a bleeding time test.
What is 30 seconds?
100
Cause of a preanalytical error occurring during the transport of anticoagulant tubes.
What is transported horizontally?
100
The process of identifying a patient.
What is check ID band, requisition and verbal statement of name?
200
The silica particles in an SST do this.
What is enhance clotting?
200
An expressionless face is a symptom.
What is shock or fainting?
200
This specimen is drawn 2 hours after completing a meal.
What is 2 hour postprandial?
200
The most common reason for glucose monitoring through POCT.
What is monitoring glucose levels for diabetic care?
200
Type of cleansing agent suitable for routine venipuncture.
What is antiseptic?
300
What the phlebotomist should do when s/he arrives to draw a fasting specimen, but the patient is eating.
What is ask the nurse if s/he should draw or not?
300
Do this if a patient is feeling faint.
What is discontinue draw and lower the patient's head?
300
Do this to ease a 6 year old child's fear.
What is explain the procedure in simplest terms?
300
This specimen requires protection from light in addition to bilirubin.
What is vitamin B12?
300
The longest a tourniquet can be left on to minimize the effects of hemoconcentration.
What is 60 seconds?
400
A hematology tube's anticoagulant EDTA has this action.
What is binds calcium?
400
The department's tests are the most affected by tissue contamination.
What is coagulation?
400
The antiseptic used to draw blood cultures.
What is iodine preparation?
400
The recommended procedure for collection a 24-hour urine specimen.
What is first morning void in toilet, start timing, collect all urine in 24-hour period, including the next morning's void?
400
Best choice of needle for drawing difficult veins.
What is butterfly?
500
Where to do draw if the patient has two IV's.
What is below one of the IV's?
500
Best way to tell if a venipuncture is inserted into an artery.
What is blood pulses into the tube?
500
A bleeding time test assesses this.
What is platelet functioning?
500
Cooling a specimen does this.
What is slow the metabolic process?
500
Best response to a patient's question regarding why a specific test is being drawn?
What is ask your nurse or doctor?