Which blood collection tube contains EDTA and is used for CBC testing?
Mlt Lab Operations
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What a Safety Data Sheet tells you
Short
How do precision and accuracy describe different kinds of laboratory performance?
General Laboratory
Flashcard
According to CLSI order of draw, which tube is collected immediately after the light blue (citrate) tube?
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Sixteen-section document that employers with hazardous chemicals must keep for exposed workers, along with labels, and cover in training.
Regulations and hazards
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Chapter 1: Clinical Chemistry
1.1 Specimen Collection, Order of Draw & Pre-analytical Interference
Study guide
A hemolyzed specimen will MOST falsely elevate which analyte?
Mlt Chemistry
Read the clue and guess the term in 6 tries.
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What visual difference separates a QC shift from a QC trend?
Which Westgard rule signals that a control run should be REJECTED?
Federal program that oversees medical testing on people in the U.S.; its requirements grow stricter as a test method becomes more complex.
A potassium result of 6.8 mEq/L in a non-hemolyzed sample is reported. What action is required?
Why is successful calibration not a substitute for routine quality control?
A fasting plasma glucose of 132 mg/dL on two separate occasions meets the diagnostic criteria for which condition?
Used needles, scalpels and broken glass that must be discarded as soon as feasible into a closable, puncture-resistant, leakproof container.
1.2 Carbohydrates & Lipids
Which HbA1c result is consistent with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus?
Swap tiles to line up three of the same term.
Term Match
Why can two centrifuges running at the same RPM produce different separation forces?
Which enzyme is most specific for myocardial injury?
Pituitary signal that rises when the neck gland it controls underperforms; doctors usually check it first when that gland seems underactive.
Clinical Chemistry
A patient has the following ABO results: forward type shows agglutination with anti-A only; reverse type shows agglutination with B cells only. What is the patient's blood type?
Mlt Blood Banking
What distinguishes serum from plasma in specimen processing?
An Rh-negative mother delivers an Rh-positive baby. What is the standard postpartum dose of RhoGAM?
Kidney function value that providers estimate from blood creatinine; below 60 may mean kidney disease, and 15 or less is called kidney failure.
1.3 Renal Function & Nitrogenous Compounds
A transfusion patient develops fever, chills, back pain, and red urine within minutes of starting transfusion. What is the MOST likely cause?
Flip two cards at a time to find matching terms.
Term Pairs
What makes positive patient identification a preanalytical control rather than a clerical formality?
What is the maximum shelf life of platelets stored at 20-24°C with continuous gentle agitation?
Enzyme made mainly in the pancreas that digests fats; blood levels rise when pancreatic cells are damaged.
Which test detects unexpected antibodies in a patient's serum prior to transfusion?
How does dilution factor connect the measured diluted result to the original specimen concentration?
MCV is calculated using which formula?
Mlt Hematology
Acid the body makes when it burns fat for energy instead of glucose; testing for it matters in diabetes.
1.4 Electrolytes, Acid-Base & Blood Gases
A peripheral smear shows hypochromic, microcytic red cells with marked anisopoikilocytosis. The patient has decreased serum iron and increased TIBC. What is the MOST likely diagnosis?
Find five hidden terms in a grid of letters.
Term Search
Within an assay's linear range, what does the Beer-Lambert relationship predict?
Which hemoglobin band on alkaline electrophoresis is found in a healthy adult in highest concentration?
Routine panel that measures the number and size of red cells, white cells and platelets.
Hematology
PT (prothrombin time) primarily measures which coagulation pathway?
Why can conjugated bilirubin appear in urine while unconjugated bilirubin normally does not?
Which gram-positive cocci in clusters, catalase-positive and coagulase-positive, produce golden colonies on blood agar?
Mlt Microbiology
Red cell index that reports average cell size; low values may point to anemia or thalassemia.
1.5 Clinical Enzymology, Cardiac & Liver Markers
Which test is used to presumptively identify Group A Streptococcus?
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