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Everything: TUBES
Order, tubes, color, additives.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Evacuated tubes | plastic/ some glass rubber or plastic safety covers different sizes & volumes premeasured vacuum short draws additive tubes must be inverted after filling judgment on tube size based on patient & veins |
| Tube stoppers | color coding non-additive & additive tubes trace-element free tubes (not common) |
| Tube with additive | amount of additve in tube corresponds to amount of blood from full draw less blood = incorrect ratio = affect some test results never use tube thats expired |
| Additive tubes | Anticoagulants: EDTA Citrates Heparin Oxalates |
| Order of Draw? | Yellow Light blue Red Green Lavender Gray |