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What is the best site to puncture an infants foot?
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lateral portion of the plantar surface of the heel
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What is the second choice for an arterial puncture?
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Brachial Artery
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What is the order (1,2,3) for Arterial Draw Choices?
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Radial
Brachial Femoral (MD does) |
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What is the Evacuated Tube that contains Separator Gel and clot activator?
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Gold Top Tube
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What is the reason we wipe away the first drop of blood with skin punctures?
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Tissue Fluid Contamination
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What do we want when we need a patient to be in steady state for an ABG collection?
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Sleeping and laying down for a minimum of 30 minutes breathing room air
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What would be the reason you would apply pressure for a minimum of 5 minutes with an Arterial Draw?
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To prevent a hematoma
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If you want to increase blood flow what is something you should not do because it causes Hemoconcentration?
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Have them pump their fist
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What happens when you force the plunger back to hard and fast?
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hemolysis
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What is the common length needle for an adult venipuncture?
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1 and 1 1/2 inch.
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Hitting the bone/cartilage while doing a venipuncture can cause...
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osteomyelitus
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What is a clot formation in a blood vessel called?
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Thrombosis
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What is plasma without its clotting factors?
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Serum
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What could happen when you tie the tourniquet too tightly?
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Petechiae
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What is an infectious Organism?
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Pathogen
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Who regulates safety in the Workplace?
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OSHA
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What vein is the prominent vein in the antecubital Fossa?
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Median-Cubital Vein
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Who Monitors evaluates the quality of patient care?
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JCAHO
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What is the process by which the body stops blood from leaking out of a wound?
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Hemostasis
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What is it called when you have a destruction of RBC'S
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Hemolysis
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What contains iron and gives blood its red color while transporting oxygen?
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Hemoglobin
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What is the abbreviation for Hemoglobin?
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Hgb
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What happens when you leave the tourniquet on too long?
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Hemoconcentration
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What is it called when you have an increased ratio of formed elements in the plasma?
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Hemoconcentration
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What is it when you have a swollen reddeded area under the skin where blood collects (bruise)
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Hematoma
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What determines the percentage of blood volume that is RBC's
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Hematocrit
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What is HCT?
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Hematocrit
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What is order of draw for ETS and Syringe draws?
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Blood Culture - Yellow Sterile- Sodium Floride SPS
Light Blue - (Coagulation Tests) Red-(gives us Serum) Gold - SST Green - Heparin Lavender - EDTA Pink-EDTA Gray-Potassium Oxalate- Sodium Floride |
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What tube has Sodium Floride and Sodium Polyanethol Sulfonate?
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Yellow Blood Culture
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What Tubes have K2EDTA
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Lavender
Pink Tan |
