Clinical Procedures Final Exam Questions and Answers

Clinical Procedures Final Exam
Questions and Answers
60 minutes - ANSWER-What is the range of time an ESR can take to complete?

Hematocrit - ANSWER-% of RBC to total blood volume

Lavender - ANSWER-What color tube is required for Hct?

Red - ANSWER-No additive; used for chemistries; you get serum...name the tube
color.

Lt. Blue - ANSWER-Name this tube color...Additive = sodium citrate; used for
coagulation; you get PT, INR

Tiger; SST - ANSWER-No additive, Clot formation; Silicon Gel; Chemestries, Serum
test...name the tube color

Lavender - ANSWER-EDTA; whole blood and plasma; hematology tests.

Birth and 2 weeks (7-14 days) - ANSWER-When is the newborn screening test
performed?

Oregon State Public Health Department Lab - ANSWER-What lab is PKU sent to for
testing in OR?

phenalketonuria - ANSWER-PKU stands for what?

hot packing - ANSWER-warming a site to bring more blood to a site for blood
collection.

Lt. Blue - ANSWER-What color tube is a PT test done in?

International Normalization Ratio - ANSWER-What does INR stand for?

lavender - ANSWER-What color tube is CBC done in?

hemogram - ANSWER-what is another name for CBC? (besides complete blood
count)

anticoagulant - ANSWER-reagent that keeps blood from clotting

flash in hub - ANSWER-when blood enters the hub in a syringe