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37 Cards in this Set
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- Method of choice in children under 1 year of age and for adults whose veins are inaccessible. |
Capillary Puncture |
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Adult |
Done in Fingers |
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Children below 1 year old |
Foot |
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is a also a choice but not recommended because the blood flow is not adequate |
Earlobe |
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- Much more painful than veni and arterial |
Capillary Puncture |
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o Incision devices meant to puncture or cut the skin to obtain capillary blood |
Lancet |
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Depth of a capillary puncture lancet |
2mm |
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needleless |
laser |
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what is the volume of blood required in microtainer tubes |
250-500 microliters |
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how many drop of blood is required in microtainer tubes |
3-5 |
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Microtainer tubes are also called as |
Bullets |
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Is there a blue microtainer |
None |
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In puncturing and using microtainer what will be immediately released |
Thrombin |
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what is used in labelling |
Micropore Masking Tape |
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green colored tubes |
Bilirubin Test |
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Orange Colored Tubes |
Clot Activators |
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also called micro hematicrit tubes |
Capillary Tubes |
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volume in capillary tubes |
50-75 microliters |
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inversion of capillary tubes |
5-8x |
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has anticoagulant capillary tubes |
Red and Green |
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plain capillary tube |
Blue |
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additive for cbg |
Sodium Heparin |
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Common additive |
Sodium Ammonium |
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o Specialized centrifuge for Capillary Tube |
Statspin |
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are commonly used to form a tight leak-proof seal used during centrifugation |
Plastic or Clay Sealants |
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also used as sealants |
Parafin |
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Stirrers Help to mix blood + anticoagulant Small metallic fillings w/magnet |
Fleas |
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o 100 mm in length and a volume of 100 µL. o Contains SODIUM HEPARIN additive o Upon collection, the tube is capped at both ends with plastic caps to prevent ambient air from mixing with the sample. |
Capillary Blood Gas Equipment |
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is used to move the magnetic filling inside the tube (flea) and help with the mixing of the specimen. |
Magnet |
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= use to discover what species of malaria is causing the infection. |
Thin Smear |
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detecting the presence of parasites, because they examine a larger sample of blood. |
Thick Smear |
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Used in blood smearing |
Glass slides |
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Brown colored |
CBG |
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affected to light |
Bilirubin |
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o Painful because surrounded with nerves |
Fingerstick |
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fingerprints |
Whorls |
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safest site |
Ring Finger Middle Finger |
