Blood tubes
EDTA, heparin, and sodium citrate are examples of which of the following?
Anticoagulants
If you need a large volume of blood, what collection site would you use?
A blood chemistry machine gives values of what?
Internal organ function
To keep the rinsing and staining of chemicals separate.
OSHA
Which anticoagulant is preferred for routine hematologic studies because it preserves cell morphology?
EDTA
When discussing needle sizes, as the gauge (number) increases, the size of the needle _____.
Decreases
What does a hematology analyzer do?
It looks at the cells of the blood.
What object is used to examine objects too small for the naked eye?
What is the liquid portion of a sample called?
Supernatant
What is the additive in the blue top tube?
Red top.
A packed cell volume describes the percentage of ____ in whole blood.
Red blood cells (Erythrocytes).
What device is used for the separation of substances?
Centrifuge
What does it mean to look at something macroscopically?
To look at something with the naked eye.
What is the additive in the marble/tiger top tube?
If your patient eats a fatty meal before venipuncture, their plasma will have a milky coloring to it. What is this called?
Lipemic.
A build up of bilirubin from the liver causing yellowing coloration to the skin and plasma is also called ____.
Icteric
How do you calibrate a refractometer?
Using distilled water
What does coagulation mean?
Clot
What is in a solid red or white top tube?
No additive.
If you use a poor venipuncture technique the plasma will turn pink from lysed red blood cells, what is this called?
Hemolyzed.
What organ function does BUN and creatinine measure?
Kidney
True or false, it is important to balance a centrifuge to not cause damage to the equipment or cause samples to be damaged.
True.
The portion of the spun PCV tube that contains white blood cells and platelets is called
The buffy coat.