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Phlebotomy 45664
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Pku? | A hereditary inability to metabolize phenylalnine |
| It is necessary to control depth of lancet insertion during skin puncture to avoid | Bone injury |
| What is the purpose of warming the site before skin puncture | It increases blood flow up to seven times |
| To make a thick blood smear you should take a large drop of blood and spread it to the size of a | dime |
| Fluid that comes from between tissue cells is known as | interstital fluid |
| A capillary puncture site should not appear bluish from lack of oxygen,a condition known as | cyanosis |
| A good blood smear should exhibit a | feathered edge |
| Billirubin specimen should be protected from | light |
| A microhematocrit tube is primarily ised for manual potassium determinations | False |
| If a patient has cold hands, you should puncture the pinky(or little 5th finger) | False |
| A phlebotomist shoud puncture a finger perpendicular to the fingerprint whorls | True |
| A magnet and flea are used to mix a CBG | True |
| A baby has a huge fleshy toe. You should collect a billirubin specimen from it | False |
| Of the following tests,which is most likely to reult in a fatal consequences for the patient if the specimen is misidentified | Type and crossmatch |
| Which test requires strict skin antisepsis procedures before specimen collection | Blood culture |
| A bleeding time (BT) test assesses the funtioning of | Thrombocytes |
| What type of additive is recommended for collecting an ethonol test specimen | Sodium floride |
| When performing a GTT, the timing should begin | When the patient finishes the glucose drink |
| Which test is used to monitor heparin therapy | ACT |
| At what intervals is the blood blotted during a bleeding time test | 30 seconds |
| Which of the folowing test specimens is collected from patients with fever of unkown origin (FUO) to rule out septicemia | Blood Culture |
| Which of the following should be avoided during a glucose tolerance test (GTT) | Chewing sugarless gum,drinking sugar free tea,smoking low tar cigarettes |
| When collecting a blood culture specimen directly from a butterfly into blood culture bottles,which should be filled first | Aerobic |
| Which of the following tests may require special "chain of custody" documentation when collected | Drug screen |
| I dentify the condition in which a unit of blood is withdrawn from a patient as treatment | Hemochromatosis |
| Which of tube is used to collect blood for a type and cross match | non additive red top |
| An autologous blood transfusion is a transfusion of blood | donated by the patient for his or her own use |
| The most critical aspect of a blood culture collection is | Skin antispesis |
| This test requires a specimen with a 9.1 ratio of blood to anticoagulant | Prothrombin timre |
| Th hormone detected in a positive urine pregnancey test is | HCG |
| Tests that can be preformed using special POCT instruments or test kits include | Glucose |
| TDM is used by physicians to | Determine a beneficial drug dosage for a patient |
| A 2 hour postprandial specimen should be drawn | 2 hours after the patient has had a meal |
| When a specimen is collected for legal reasons a strict __________ method of tracking the specimen is preformed | chain of custody |
| A condition in which a patient has high blood glucose level is known as | hyperglycemic |
| A patient who is properly absorbing D-xylose will have a D-xylose in her blood and/or urine | True |
| A patient who is lactose intolerhant will have a normal glucose curve after ingesting a dose of lactose | False |
| Which fluid is obtained by lumbar puncture | Cerebrospinal |
| Which fluid is aspirated from the peritoneal cavity | Ascites |
| WHat additional info is typically required when labeling a nonblood specimen | specimen type and source |
| This test involves administration of histamine or pentagastrin | gastric analysis |
| Which test is used to diagnose systic fibrosis | Sweat chloride |
| Which of the following tests require a 24 hour urine specimen | creatinine clearance |
| A refridgerated stool sampke would not be suitable for this test | ova and parasities |
| A urine c and s is typically ordered to detect | presence of uti |
| An NP culture swab is collected to detect the presence of the organisms that cause | Whooping cough |
| A first morning specimen is preferred for HCG because it is | usually more concentrated |
| Drugs of abuse can be detected in | Hair,Urine,saliva |
| Which type of specimen must be protected from light | Tuberculosis |
| This type of urine specimen is aspirated directly through the wall of the bladder using a sterile needle | suprapubic |
| a urine specimen collected directly from the bladder through a tube is called | catherized |
| The fluid found around a fetus is known as | amniotic |
| Fluid found around the heart is called | pericardial |
| mucus or phlem from the lungs is called | sputum |
| Cellular components in urine are well preserved and require no preservation | False |
| The process of entering a password and gaining access to a computer is called | logging on |
| To process input data a computer must | press the enter key |
| a bidirectional computer interface | allows to go back and forth between systems |
| which of the following is an example of a computer peripheral | keyboard |
| Applications software | refers to programs from software companies |
| Which actions can lead to inaccurate test results | inadequate mixing of edta tubes |
| You have an aquesition that you are unfamiliar with how do you determine what tube to use and how to collect and handle to specimen | refer to the user manual |
| what tests cannot be preformed on a hemolyzed specimen | magnesium,most enzyme,potassium |
| what specimin needs to be chilled | ammonia |
| A potassium specimen would be rejected for testing | true |
| The handling of specimens before tested is the ________ phase | preanylitic |
| Which type of transportaion is acceptable for a cryoglobulin specimen | in a 37'c heat block |
| Which specimen should be centerfuged immediatly when arrived at the lab | calcium in green top tube |
| An Edta specimen should be made | within 12 hours of collection |
| What is the ClSI recommended maxiumum depth of heel puncture | 2.0mm |
| Why are EDTA specimen obtained before other specimens when collected by skin puncture | to minimize effects of platelet clumping |
| which is the safest area for the infant heel puncture | lateral plantear surface |
| skin puncture blood references are higher for | glucose |
| what does calcaneus | heel bone |
| skin puncture blood most closely resembles | arterial blood |
| a skin puncture should be done rather than a venipuncture when | a light blue stopper tube is needed |
| which microcollection container would be used to collect for a CBC | lav |