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Question | Answer |
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Anticoagulation in a green top is: | Sodium Heparin |
Gold top tubes are the same as: | Tiger top tubes |
What is the blood to anticoagulant ratio in citrate tubes | 9 parts blood to 1 part citrate |
What tube is drawn for a liver panel | SST, tiger top, or Gold |
What is the heavy metal trace element tube | Royal blue |
What tube is used for a lactic acid | grey top on ice |
Is there a difference with needles in order of draw? | None unless it is a capillary draw |
Light blue top does not have to be completely filled? | False |
Meaning of cyanotic? | Turning blue due to lack of oxygen |
Non-sterile order of draw | does not include blood culture |
PTT, renal panel, CBC, blood culture; what order are they drawn in? | blood culture, PTT, renal panel, CBC |
Received a test order for ammonia and bilirubin, how are they drawn? | bilirubin: SST protected from light, ammonia: green top on ice |
Sterile order of draw | includes blood culture |
Tube without anticoagulant | serum tube |
Two most common tests done on a light blue top? | PT and aPTT |
WBC count goes in which tube? | Lavender |
What are green top tubes? | sodium, lithium, and ammonium |
What are the three layers of the heart? | epicardium, myocardium and endocardium |
What are the two grey top additives? | potassium oxalate and sodium fluoride |
What color tubes contain EDTA? | tan, lavender, pink, white, royal blue |
What does PTT stand for? | partial thromboplastin time |
What does sodium citrate bind to? | calcium |
What do we draw for a pediatric lead level test? | tan or royal blue |
What is an ABG and where is it drawn from | arterial blood gas from radial artery |
What is a blood culture drawn in? | blood culture bottles or yellow tube |
What is a fomite | objects or materials which are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture |
What is syncope | fainting |
What is the additive in the lavender top | EDTA |
What is the pink top reserved for? | blood bank |
What needs to be added to a label when going to a blood bank? | name, date of birth, time, date, collector initials |
What should never be done with needles | never recap |
When drawing a metabolic and lipid panel which tube is used? | SST |
When running a chemistry test in a hospital, which two tubes are interchangeable? | green and gold/SST |
Which additive is in the lavender top? | ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid |
Which anticoagulant does not bind to calcium | heparin |
Which tests are protected from light | bilirubin, vitamin C and vitamin B6 |
Which tube can be used as a discard tube | no additive red top |
Which tube contains antiglycolic agent | grey |
What tube contains potassium oxalate? | grey |
Which tube contains sodium citrate | light blue |
Which tube contains sodium fluoride | grey |
Which tube contains sodium heparin | green |
Which tube is used for diabetes testing | grey |
Which tube is used for lead levels | royal blue |
Which tubes are non-additives | clear red plastic or red glass |
Which tubes contain thixotropic gel | light green, gold, and all SST tubes |
Why do we have an order of draw | to avoid mixture of additives |
Centrifuging a sample a second time is known to: | increase potassium level by 47% |
Centrifuging a sample improperly: | platelets remain in serum raising potassium levels |
Pouring blood from one tube to another is: | a no no, alters results |
red cells that rupture due to poor collection is called: | hemolysis |
incorrect order of draw can result in: | cross contamination |
We do not draw above an IV or while it is running because: | there is contamination, diluted sample |
Pumping the fist does what to the potassium level in a patient? | makes a normal level look critical or a critically low level look normal |