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| What section of the lab is the largest? |
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| What is it called when blood is drawn to a deadly level |
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| What is the federal law that regulates the responsibilities of lab personnel? |
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| What is it called when we talk about the use of space? |
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| What area of the lab screens for infectious diseases? |
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| WHat is the charge that can be filed against you if you don't get consent before drawing blood? |
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| What are some reasons why specimens may be rejected? |
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| QNS (quantity not sufficient), clotted, hemolysis, wrong tubes, specimen wasn't transported properly, wrong time of collection |
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| What do you do if you are not familiar with a test that's been ordered? |
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| What is the best way to control external bleeding? |
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| At what time intervals do you have to get doses of the hepatitis vaccine? |
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| You get the first, then another one month later, then another one six months after the first. |
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| Why would someone be put in protective isolation? |
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| Because they are a susceptible host |
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| What is the order of putting on PPE? What is the order of taking it off? |
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| Gown, mask, glvoes. Gloves gown mask. |
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| What is the main safety principle involved with radiation? |
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| Shielding, distance, time. |
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| WHat is the definition of a nosocomial infection? |
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| Hospital contracted infection |
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| WHat is the medical name for a white blood cell? |
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| WHat is the medical name for a red blood cell? |
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| What is the name for an immature red blood cell? |
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| What is the structure of our skin that gives rise and fall to finger prints? |
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| What is the major cause of respiratory distress in infants? |
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| RSV- respiratory sensitial virus |
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| WHat type of muscle is voluntary? |
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| When you are facing someone in a normal anatomical position it is called? |
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| What is the avascular layer of the skin? |
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| What cavity holds the brain? |
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| What cavity encases the heart? |
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| What cavity houses the intestines? |
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| Which hormone that is specific to the heart is elevated when too much fluid has built up? |
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| BNP for congestive heart failure |
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| Which gland is it that is called the master gland? |
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| the process by which blood clots |
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| a steady state of equilibrium |
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| the red blood cells are damaged or broken and hemoglobin escapes into the serum |
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| What is hemoconcentration? |
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| The big cells are held back and there is a higher concentration of other cells in the area? |
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| Which artery is the easiest to access with low cardiac output? |
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| What is the preferred artery? |
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| And what is the other artery that cna be used? |
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| What is the most common needle size for ABGs? |
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| What anesthetic is most commonly used? |
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| When an area is supplied with blood from multiple arteries, it is called.... |
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| When we do a capillary puncture, why do we wipe away the first drop of blood? |
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| When we spin specimens in the centrifuge, the centrifuge must be... |
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| What type of specimen collection is aspirated through the abdomen into the bladder? |
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| What is the proper angle for an ABG? |
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| What are the conditions in which blood gets taken form the patient as treatment called? |
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| Polycythemia and hemcromatosis |
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| What is autologous blood used for? |
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| It is a donation of your own blood for your own future use |
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| What test needs a 9:1 ratio? |
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| What is the hormone tha tis detected in a postiive pregnancy test? |
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| What is a qualititative test? |
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| a test with a yes or no answer |
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| What is a quantititaive test? |
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| a test with an answer of how much |
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| a permanent fusion of an artery and a vein |
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| What is the reference value that is higher with skin punctures? |
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| Where does lymph fluid originate form? |
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| What is the major difference between arteries and veins/. |
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| What layers of the skin contain blood vessels? |
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| the dermis and the subcutaneous |
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| What is the skin on the inside that lines the organs? |
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| What are some of the reasons why we should leave tubes right side up? |
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| increased risk of splash or aerosol, it enhances the formation of a clot, the cells wont bang together |
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| What is the maximum time limit for separating plasma or serum? |
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| What is the fluid that is collected form the lumbar area of the spine? |
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| What are some of the tests that need to be protected from light? |
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| bilirubin, amniotic fluid, sometimes urine |
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| What specimens need to be kept cold? |
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| WHat specimens need to be kept warm? |
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| What blood specimen must be tested at room temperature? |
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| What is the best area of an infant's heel to puncture? |
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| what is the heel bone called? |
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| WHat is the best area of a finger to puncture? |
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| What is the maximum depth of a skin puncture? |
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| What specimen can result in fatal consequences when mislabeled? |
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| What is the time interval to touch filter paper to drops of blood |
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| What is the most important part of a culture? |
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| What does vicarious liability mean? |
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| the employer takes responsibility |
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| What is respondent superior? |
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| WHat is the maximum time that a tourniquet can be left on? |
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| What is the most critical error a phlebotomist can make? |
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| What is the reason to let alcohol dry? |
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| it will sting if still wet, the evaporation destroys the microbes, it may cause hemolysis |
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| Why is it not a good idea to colect froma screaming infant? |
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| falsely elevated white blood cells |
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| What is the best tube to collect a blood alcohol specimen in? |
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| grey top. It preserves alcohol |
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| What additive is in a green top tube? |
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| What additivie is in a lavender top tube? |
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| What additivie is in a blue top tube? |
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| What additive is in a grey top tube? |
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| Where is the blood initially recieved? |
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| upper/lower vena cava (or superior and inferior) |
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| What is always the recieiving chamber of the heart? |
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| What are the delivering chambers? |
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| WHat does the left ventricle deliver and to where? |
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| oxygenated blood to the aorta to the smaller arteries, capillaries and venules throughout the body |
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| What type of blood cell can pass through thte vessels? |
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| What are some reasons that might make blood in a serum tube take longer to clot than a normal one? |
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| it may not have a clot activator, if the person is one blood thinners, if the person has a very high white blood cell count, if it is chilled |
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| part of the specimen that is pipetted into a tube |
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| Whats the most common tube that blood bank would ask for when a cross match is ordered? |
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| plain red top with clotted blood |
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| What does the lab have its own id band for? |
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| to identify a person for type and cross-match |
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| What are some tests that can be done point of care? |
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| urine, glucose, hemoccult test, ABGs |
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| If blood is drawn too fast from a vein with too small of a needle or a tiny vein, what would happen? |
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| the vein would collapse, and the specimen would hemolyze |
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| When we're collecting specimens by skin puncture in microtainers, what is different about the order of draw? |
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| first is capillary blood gases, then EDTA, then any other additive, and then plain serum tubes |
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| comparing the same test form the same person at different times of the day |
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| material safety data sheets |
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| What is airborne transmission? |
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| evaporated droplets that hang in the air that came from a sneeze or cough |
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| What is contact transmission? |
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| direct or indirect contact with infectious fluids |
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| What is vector transmission? |
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| What is vehicle transmission? |
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| contaminated food, water, drugs, etc. |
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| What are ways that htese things cna get into the body? |
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| permuscosial, percutaneous, ingestion, perinteral |
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| What is the pneumonic device for fire safety? |
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| RACE: rescue people that are in danger, activate the alarm, confine the fire by closing doors, extinguish the fire with the nearest suitable fire extinguisher. PASS: pull the pin, aim the nozzle, squeeze the trigger, sweeap at the base of the fire |
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| What is the new name for the patients bill of rights?? |
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| When we say something is distal... |
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| it is the farthest point from attachment that you are referring to |
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| closer to the poin of attachment |
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| What are the twoo processes of metabolism? |
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| What does catabolism mean? |
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| complex substances broken down into simple substances |
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| What does anabolism mean? |
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| simple substances being turned into more complex substances |
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| electrocardiogram, it measures the electrical activity of the heart |
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| What are the three layers of the heart? |
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| endocardium (innermost), epicardium (outermost), myocardium (muscular middle layer |
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| What are some reasons someone might be anemic? |
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| not enough iron in the blood, iatrogenic when blood is being collected too mahy times, when someone doesnt absorb vitamin b through their stomach very well, excessive bleeding form some place (probably internally) |
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| What specific thing needs to be included in the labeling of non blood specimens (culture swabs)? |
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| the source of the specimen |
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| what is something special that you need to do with amniotic fluid? |
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| Where is cerbrospinal fluid collected from? |
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| between the second and third lumbar |
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| hwo do you handle cerbrospinal fluid? |
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| keep it at room temperature |
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| When doctors are doing tests for gastric fluids, what are they checking that fluid for? |
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| acidity of the gastric fluid, they give histamne to test how well he body is producing stomach acids |
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| nasopharyngeal swab, checkin for influenza, MRSA, whooping cough (pertussis), specific types of ammonias |
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| What are some of the specific things that you need to tell a patient when you are collecting semen? |
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| it must be kept warm, it has to be analyzed within 30 minutes of the time it was collected |
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| What are the three types of fluid in the body that are considered serous fluids? |
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| pleural fluid (fluid that surrounds the lungs), pertoneal (abdominal cavity), pericardial (fluid that surrounds the heart) |
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| When a doctor orders a sputum test, what is most typically being checked for? |
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| TB, sputum is often done for ccultures to check for infection |
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| What is the sweat chloride test done for? |
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| Where does synovial fluid come from? |
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| from the cheeck to check for parentage |
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| Whenever doctors collect bone marrow from patients, what is it that they are usually checking for? |
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| keukemia, cancer of the blood |
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| what can breath tests be done for |
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| h pylori, and lactose intolerance (hydrogen) |
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| What are some of the things that they would be looking for if a doctor orders a stool sample? |
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| ova and parasites, CDIF, a culture for things like salmonella, fecal fat |
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| What are the things tht can be checked from hair? |
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| When the lab recieves tissue specimens, what is the tissue put in? |
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| What tube is CBC always collected in? |
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| What are PTs and PTTs always collected in? |
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| What is the order of draw for vaccutainer tubes? |
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| STOP (sterile culture)LIGHT (light blue) RED (red) STAY (SSTs) PUT (PSTs) GREEN (green) LIGHT (lavender) GO (grey) |
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| What is different with a butterfly colection if the only tube you have to collect is a blue top tube? |
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| You need to collect another tube first to get rid of the air (most places want another blue top to be used) |
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| What are standard precautions? |
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| It is used on all patients to contribute to their care. We dont treat anyone who looks really healthy differently than a person who is really sick. We treat all patients as if they are infectious. |
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| What is the medical term for fainting? |
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| Syncope and vasovagal response. |
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