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| food and drug administration |
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| tax equity and fiscal responsibility act |
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| prospective payment system |
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| american association of blood banks |
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| occupational safety and health administration |
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| the joint commission on accreditation of health care organizations |
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| college of american pathologists |
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| national certification agency |
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| american society of clinical pathologists |
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| american medical technologists |
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| international society for clinical laboratory technology |
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| quality control assurance: shift |
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| charted values change suddenly, or if they're consistantly higher or lower over several days |
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| Ways to determine if the autoclave is working properly |
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| striped tape and chemical indicators (color change), melting metal alloys, and bacillus stearothermophilis germination |
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| how much each employee works every hour they're paid to. ((WLU/THW)/60)(100%) |
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| The number of tests which must be run in the laboratory for "c" net income (for minimum number, c = 0): x = (f + c)/(r - v) |
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| used to make tubing (if flexible and autoclavable) and bottles (if rigid and non-autoclavable). |
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| Teflon, Polytetrafluoroethylene |
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| used to make transfer disks for centrifugal analyzers, stoppers, and gaskets |
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| borosillicate glass brand, used for beakers, flasks, and pipettes |
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| aluminum-silicate glass, used for thermometer and centrifuge tubes |
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| a hygroscopic material, used to keep certain materials and reagents out of contact with water. The most effective of which is magnesium perchloride. |
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| autoclavable plastic used primarily for pipette tips |
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| a plastic often used in the laboratory as a substitute for glass due to it's shatter-resistant capabilities. |
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| amplifies the related signal, and converts it to electrical energy |
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| Interconvert bits to bytes to characters to kilobytes |
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| a slide tool used to count related cells or other microscopic particles therein |
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| what one should know or be able to do after completing a course of instruction/more general objective |
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| A = abc, where A = absorbance, a = absorptivity, b = path of light in centimeters, c = concentration of the absorbing compound |
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| (moles / 1kg solvent)Normal #. For multiple solvents, multiply each by its respective normal. |
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| (gram * valence)/atomic mass |
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| difference of an outcome between two different groups of people, divided by the number of people in each group (which should be equal). Indices above .4 are desirable. |
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| wait three years, or six months without prophylactics |
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| after 12 months if clear of Hepatitis |
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| RBCs from the donor are introduced into the serum of the recipient, ABO compatibility is determined as well as antibody/antigen probing (major). |
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| cold agglutination syndrome |
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| autoimmune condition associated with IgM antibodies' attack on RBCs |
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| Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria |
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| blood in the related excrement caused by IgG binding to RBCs |
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| warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia |
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| occurs in the spleen due to IgG and IgA binding to RBCs leaving Fc region exposed for binding |
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| hemolytic disease of the newborn |
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| parental IgG passes through placenta and causes anemia in the related party |
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| a supplement for mothers who are - but have a + child |
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| reasons why serum and plasma are better than whole blood for glucose testing |
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| no glycolysis to effect outcome. glucose doesn't vary with hematocrit levels. specificity for glu is higher. automated instruments make them easier to test (no mixing). |
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| curtails the development and reproduction of related party witout killing them (necessarily) |
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| heavy metal detection, by dissolution in HCl followed by copper strip coating. Should be followed up with other tests |
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| discrete vs. continuous flow analyzers |
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| each sample is analyzed in seperate vessels (ACA); each sample is analyzed in the same tubing, seperated only by an air bubble (SMAC) |
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