Phlebotomy Essentials: Chapter 7-8

Front 1

Sodium Flouride prevents ______?

Back 1

glycolysis

Front 2

Red top tubes can be used to collect _______?

Back 2

serum specimens

Front 3

A tourniquet is used in venipuncture to ______?

Back 3

find and enter veins more easily

Front 4

When you are performing a routine venipuncture, you would use ___________ as an antiseptic.

Back 4

70% isopropyl alcohol

Front 5

The smaller the number of the gauge of the needle, the _________ the diameter.

Back 5

larger

Front 6

Premeasured tube vacuum causes evacuated tubes to __________________.

Back 6

fill with blood automatically

Front 7

Lavender top tubes are primarily used to perform _____________ tests.

Back 7

hematology

Front 8

A butterfly needle is used for drawing blood from _________________________________.

Back 8

difficult and hand veins

Front 9

RST stands for _________________.

Back 9

Rapid Serum Tube

Front 10

Blood in _________ tubes normally clot within 5 minutes.

Back 10

RST

Front 11

Hydrogen peroxide is a ________.

Back 11

biocide

Front 12

Turn your wrist back and forth at _____ degrees when mixing an additive.

Back 12

180

Front 13

royal-blue top tubes are __________________.

Back 13

trace element free

Front 14

a clot activator is _____________?

Back 14

a substance that helps to enhance coagulation in tubes used to collect serum specimens

Front 15

the most common antiglycolytic agent is

Back 15

sodium flouride

Front 16

an antiglycolytic agent

Back 16

is a substance that prevents glycolysis

Front 17

glycolysis is ________

Back 17

the breakdown or metabolism of glucose (blood sugar)

Front 18

oxalates

Back 18

remove calcium and prevent clotting

Front 19

potassium oxalate

Back 19

is most commonly used in gray top tubes

Front 20

Heparin is the additive in

Back 20

Green and Light Green top tubes

Front 21

Heparin

Back 21

prevents clotting by inhibiting thrombin

Front 22

The ratio for light blue top tubes is ________.

Back 22

9:1 or 90%

Front 23

EDTA is the additive in

Back 23

lavender (purple) top tubes and pink top tubes

Front 24

Citrates prevent _____________ by binding or chelating calcium

Back 24

coagulation

Front 25

Sodium citrate is __________________________.

Back 25

the most common citrate

Front 26

ECHO stands for

Back 26

E (EDTA)

C (citrate)

H (heparin)

O (oxalate)

the most common anticoagulants

Front 27

additive tubes must be inverted ___ to ___ times immediately after collection

Back 27

3 to 10 times

Front 28

anticoagulants are substances that ____________.

Back 28

prevent the blood from clotting

Front 29

Most _____ tubes contain some type of additive

Back 29

ETS tubes (evacuated tube system)

Front 30

tube selection is based on

Back 30

vein condition, amount of blood required, and age of the patient

Front 31

The standard size for venipuncture needles used in routine venipuncture is ________ guage

Back 31

21 guage

Front 32

a device used to compress the veins and restrict blood flow

Back 32

tourniquet

Front 33

NPO means _______.

Back 33

non per os or "nothing by mouth"

Front 34

Information needed for a requisition includes:

Back 34

ordering physicians name, patients full name, and type of test being ordered

Front 35

A member of the clergy is with the patient when you go to draw blood. What do you do?

Back 35

Come back when the clergy member has left

Front 36

you notice that an inpatient is not wearing an ID band when you go to collect blood, so you ___________.

Back 36

Ask the patient's nurse to put an ID band on the patient to confirm the patients identity before blood draw

Front 37

Should a patient refuse to have their blood collected, you should ______________.

Back 37

Inform the patient's nurse or physician

Front 38

You go to collect for a fasting glucose and notice the patient has eaten, you should ____________.

Back 38

consult with the patient's nurse or physician to see if the you should follow through with the collection

Front 39

You collect blood from a patient that did not fast when ordered, you should write ___________ on the tube.

Back 39

"non-fasting"

Front 40

label the collection tube _______________

Back 40

immediately after blood collection

Front 41

a tourniquet should be released within

Back 41

one minute

Front 42

when dealing with an elderly adult patient, you should ________________________.

Back 42

apply adequate pressure to the site of the draw until bleeding stops

Front 43

when collecting blood from a child you should never tell them, what?

Back 43

that it will not hurt

Front 44

When a patient admits to having a needle phobia, it is best to ________________.

Back 44

Let someone more experienced collect the blood