Med Lab Comperhensive Exam

An employer who fails to provide sufficient PPE for empoyees may be fined by?

Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the medial assistant in the clinical laboratory?

Which of the following in NOT a responsibility of the medical assistant in the clinical laboratory?

Blank is the study of bacteria, fungi, yeast, parasites, and viruses

The act passed by Congress to establish quality standards for all laboratory testing is referred to as?

Laboratory tests preformed in a physician's office are most likely to be categorized as?

NOT a waived test?

The lab department that perfoms blood cell counts?

You are preparing a chemical hygiene plan for your employer and need copies of the material safety data sheets ( MSDS) for several products in use in your laboratory. The first step is to contact?

Which of the following is the most efficient method of preventing a healthcare acquired infection (HAI)

The pledge of healthcare prfessionals to work to achieve the highest degree of excellence in the care given to every patient is otherwise known as?

You are required to measure urine from a 24-hour specimen. You?

How much diluent is added to a 2-mL sample to make a 1:10 dilution?

The ocular of the microscope generally magnifies the image

Laboratory personnel that have had 4 years of college and are able to pperform specialied lab test are:

When the 40' objective is in place on the microscope, the total magnification of the specimen?

Immersion oil can be used with which of the following objective lenses of the microscope?

A centrifuge is used to separate?

Balancing a centrifuge requires that all tubes in the load:

The microscopic study of cells such as PAP smears are performed in which department:

Which of the following is a qualitative laboratory test result?

The clinical chemistry department performs which of the following tests?

An MSDS contains which of the following?

All of the following are considered biologic hazards?

Which of the following Vacutainer tubes is routinely used for hematology testing?

No anticoagulants are found in which of the following tubes?

Blank is an anticoagulant that prevents platelets from clumping and preserves the appearance of blood cells for microscopic preparation.

The slant at the open end of a needle used for venipuncture is called the:

the needle size most commonly used for adult venipuncture is what gauge?

The needle size most commonly used in infants and the elderly is what?

A tourniquet is used during the phlebotomy procedure to:

Without a clot activator, whole blood typically clots in minutes??

Thixotropic gel, found in the SST red-gray marbled- topped vacutainer tube is

the laboratory requisition indicates that you are to collect a venous blood specimen for meatology thest, serum chemistry testing, and coagulation studies. What is the proper order of collection for these tubes

You are required to collect a venous sample for a typical hematology test, the complete blood count.

leaving a tourniquet tied on a patient's arm for longer tha the recommended time results in?

In a routine venipuncture, the angle at which the meedle enters the arm should be what degrees?

Durning a routine venipuncture, when should the phlebotomist request that the patient "make a fist"?

A needle-stick is more likely to occur if:

the most common phlebotomy site in adults is/are the

The proper procedure for collecting a serum specimen is to

the light yellow part of whole blood that contains fibrinogen is:

which is the proper technique for performing a venipuncture?

the color of the tube top for collection of a coagulation test is?

Specimens for test substances that exhibit diurnal variation must be collected:

The best way to prevent fainting in a patient during blood collection is to:

Patients are most likely to be in a basal state at what time?

A speccimen collected from a patient who has recently eaten may appear:

Blood tests that are affected b the patient's posture are those that measure:

Collection of blood from a vigorously crying child may cause a falsely:

A patient who appears pale and has cold, damp skin may develop:

Physician approval is required when collecting blood from:

areas that should be avoided for venipuncture include following:

When encountering a patient with a fistula, the blood collector should

If a suitable vein is most located in the left arm, the blood collector should

Incorrect collection of blood from a patient who has had a mastectomy can result in all of the following:

Collectiom of specimens from foot veins is not recommended in all of the following

When collectiong blood from a patient with very edematous right arm and a large hematoma in the antercubital area of the left arm, the blood collector should collect the speciment from?

Attemping to draw blood from a vein that is occluded may result in?

Collection of blood from an area that is edematous:

if a patient begins to faint during the venipuncture, the blood collector should immediately:

A tourniquet is not applied when collection a specimen for:

Difficult-to-locate veins can be made more prominet by all of the following:

Prolonged tourniquet application will cause

The puncture site may require additional pressure to stop bleeding when the patient

Specimens are rejected by the laboratory for all of the following reason:

Aer filling the first tube of a three-tube collection, blood does not flow into the second tube, The phlebotomist should:

Using a 20-gauge needle and a 10-mL evacuated tube on a small vwin may cause:

You receive a requisition for the following tubes:light blue, lavender, yellow, and red. What order should the tubes be drawn?

While performing a venipuncture, the phlebotomist notices bright red blood spurting into the tube, the phlebotomist should?

Which of the following patient conditions will prolong the time it takes to stop the bleeding from a venipuncture site?

All of the following specimens would be rejected:

To transfer blood from a syringe to an evacuated tube:

When using a syringe:

allowing blood to leak from a vein into the surrounding tissue will cause:

failure to remove the toourniquet before removing the needle.

Hematomas can be caused by all of the following:

A tourniquet is placed on the patient's arm, the vein is located, and the needle is inserted into the arm. No blood flows into the tube, but a dark bulge begins to appear, at the puncture site.the describes??

Older patients are more prone to hematoma formation because?

If the plunger of a syringe is pulled back too fast:

Using a small-gauge needle with a large evacuated tube can cause:

Serum appearing red suggest, that:

All of the following can cause hemolyzed specimens

Applying a tourniquet to or drawing blood from an arm located on the same side of the body as a recent mastectomy can be harmful to the patient and may produce erroneous test results. The application of a tourniqquet as part of suck blood collctions is discouraged for all the following reasons:

proteinuria

Specific gravity

pH

ketone

glucose

HCG

WBC's

urochrome

anuria

dysuria

hematuria

polyuria

nitrite

bilirubin

oliguria

The presence of an increased amount of protein in urine is often the first indicator of

A 24-hour urine specimen is scheduled to begin upon awakeing in the morning, the patient is unstructed to

All of the following are true regarding reagent strips:

The tested used to recheck a positive bilirubin test is

Glucosuria may be an indicator of which of the following diseases:

The presence of intact red blood cells in urine is:

The sugar most commonly found in urine is

The clinitest is a test used in the laboratory to detect:

acetest is used to confirm:

normal urine appears:

The presence of blood and/or WBC's in freshly voided urine could:

A one-year child had a positive urine clinitest and a negative dipstick. Which of the following reducing substances (sugar) cannot be the cause of the positive results?

Yellow foam that is present when urine is mixed is indicative of what in the urine

Before adding the develper to the hemoccult testing pad, the specimen must be allowed to soak into the card for:

the sample to use for a pregnancy test is a?

A fresh urine specimen which is not refrigerated should be examined within

The normal specific graviy of urine is usually between

first morning specimen

random specimen

midsteam clean-catch specimen

hemoccult

24-hour specimen

hematuria

hemoglobinuria

myoglobinuria

A patient who is not allowed to have food or water for a specified time is clasified as:

The timing for a glucose tolerance test (GTT) begins

Blood cultures are performed to detect the presence of:

The MOST important consideration when collecting a blood culture is:

When blood is inoculated into blood culture bottles using abutter fly apparatus, the

When blood is ioculated into blood culture bottles using a butterfly apparatus the:

Specimens that require chilling immediately after collection are placed in a:

Which of the following tests must be placed on ice immediately after collection

Chain of custody refers to the:

Specimens for cold agglutinins must be:

Tests that are most critically affected when a patient is not fasting at the time of collection include:

Blood collected by dermal puncture mmmost closely resembles:

The major vascular areas of the skin is located in the:

Warming the site of a dermal puncture will:

Alternating between venipuncture and dermal puncture collection techniques is not recommended when comparing test results for:

The depth of a dermal puncture must be controlled to:

The maximum safe length of lancets used for heel puncture is

Using a lancet that produces a puncture deeper that recommended may cause

The calcaneus is located at the

Which of the following pairings is correct

Capillary punctures on newborns are performed on the?

To obtain the best flow of blood from a dwermal puncture, the blood collector should?

When warming a dermal puncture site, the temperature should not exceed

Following a sermal puncture, the blood collector should first

The possibility of infection is increased when?

To produce a rounded drop of blodd, finger punctures should be made

Durning dermal puncture, the firs drop of blood is wiped away because it may be?

a blood collector is recollecting a sermal puncture specimen because of hemplysis. the patient complains about a stinging sensation from the first punncture. the most probable cause of the hemplysis in the first specimen is?

The order of draw for a bilirubin, blood smear, and colplete blood count (CBC) by dermal puncture is

Excessive squeezing of a dermal puncture site can cause all of the following

Amber colored Microtainer tubed are used to collect specimens for?

A physician questions the low bilirubin result on a jaundiced baby. The discrepancy may be due to?

New borns who appear jaundiced

the acceptable amound of blood used to fill a filter paper circle for new born screening tests is?

Erythrocytes have a typical blank shape because of blank

Granular leukocytes?

Which of the following is a normal adult WBC count

Platelets do not:

In performance of a microhematocrit

The buffy coat

The decreased hematocrite value could be the result of?

The tests included in a CBC are?

While Mr. Chakrabarti's hematocrit sample is spinning the centrifuge, you perform and automated hemoglobin test on a sample of his blood and record the value as 15 g/dL. You do a quick mental calculation and expect that the hematocrit value will be approximately?

Which of the following is a normal H&H for a female?

Increases in the RBC count are found in which of the following?

all true statements when performing a the coagucheck XS protime meter

A properly prepared wedge smear

a hematocrit reading of 37 indicates what?

Which is true about leukocytes?

Which of the following is an abnormal value for a differntial?

The ESR test results

The protime is

an elevation in the number of lymphocytes could indicate

a person with type O blood has

All of the following will cause an increased ESR

B lymphocyte

Monocyte

T- lymphocyte

basophil

platelets

What type of specimen is required for most chemistry test?

The most common tube used for the collection of specimens for chemistry is

absaining from food or fluids for a specified amount of time is

Dr. Lim orders a CPK draw on Mr. Roberts. What do eleveted CPK levels indicate?

Another name for a fat is a?

Cholesterol

This type of lipoprotein picks up cholesterol from fats and delivers it to tell cell.

This type of lipoprotein collects excess cholesterol from the cells and carries it to liver.

Which is the 'good cholesterol'

according to national guidelines, a total cholesterol level should be no higher than?

Which tests might a physician order for a cardiac risk profile?

A chemistry profiles is:

This test is commonly used to evaluate kidney function

Which of the following tests would be delivered too the chemistry section

What is the test that compares the amount of glucose in the blood over a 3 hour collection time

TSH levels are assessed to determine the function of what organ?

Blood sugar testing can help diagnose

A TC/HDL ratio of 9.2 would indicate

A glucose level of 50 mg/dL would indicate

Sodium, potassium, chloride, and HCO3 are

Electrolytes

FBS

Glucola

Cholesterol

Alanine aminotransferase

Amylase

T3, T4, T7

alkaline phosphatase

calcium

Hgb A1c