Key Responses

Gauge = Diameter: Smaller gauge = fatter needle

Without contamination by microorganisms - As in, a sterile surgical field

Lowest level of lab tests according to the clinical lab improvement amendment

13 Major and many minor proteins in the blood that help a patient clot (help the coagulation occur)

The "lysis" or bursting of RBC, Which causes serum or place to look clear red or pink. Ruins potassium tests.

An instrument that spins blood samples to seperate cells from liquid

An antiseptic sometimes used in drawing blood cultures

Infection in the blood

Bacteria in the blood

Glucose in the urine: "Uria" at the end of a word means "in urine"

Literally means "without blood" But refers to a condition when RBC aren't able to deliver enough oxygen to the tissue

A calculation of the % RBC per whole volume of blood, usually per 100ml

A vessel of the forearm sometimes used for venipuncture

Diabetes Mellitus is a disease in which sugars can't be broken down due to insulin problems

A substance that can be made in the blood in response to exposure to an antigen

An extension of the american hospital associations pledge to protect patients when under medical care

Not eating or drinking

Intentional wrongdoing

The name of the smallest veins

The chemical inside RBCs that carries oxygen to tissue

A test that is time dependent must be drawn at specified times, i.e. after a drug is administered or at certain times of the day, etc as results will very overtime

Ex : NA=Sodium and EMIA = in the blood

The vein most commonly accessed in the adult arm o venipuncture

An injection that provides protection from infrction with microorganisms

Vacutainers or blood collection tubes

A stretchy band that is tied on the arm of a pt before blood collection by veniuncture to allow blood to pool in the veins of the arm

The cations and anions that are found in the blood: K+, Na+, CO2, CI-, and more

the presence of blood in urine

to tap with light pressure i.e good for locating a vein

a chemical that can be used on a sureface to kill or remove pathgenics(disease causing) organisms

Blood stoppage

collection of WBC that forms redness or oosing, usaully indiacting infecton

Collection of microorganisms that cause disease

Hormone produced by the placenta during pregnancy and found in both urine an blood

Kalemia = Potassium in blood

The smallest vessels that connect the arterioles to the venous system

The smallest artery

medicine that can be used to fight infection with bacteria

A phase in the blood clotting sequence in which factoers are released and interact to form clot

A vessel that moves blood away from the heart

Litererally means without sepses or withou infection

A normal by-product of RBC aging that can cause problems if abnormally hgh. when collected it should be covered from light.

A vessel that moves blood to the heart

A legal term referrring to the failure to act or perform duties according to the standard of the profession

A drop of whole blood that is spread along a glass slide to produce a field of cells that is one cell thick, so that the cells can be observed and vounted after staining

Prominent vein in the neck

Any living organism that are microscopic in size . Bact, fung, parasites are some

a infection that a pt aquires while in the hospital setting

the second or resting blood pressure reading

A method for growing an infectious microorganism found in the pt blood, to determine its identity

antibody screen ( a blood bank test)

Anatomic or Clinical Pathology

Activated partial thromboplastin time

Bilirubin direct and total

Bon Marrow Transplant

College of American Pathology

Chloride (ionic)

Clinical laboratory improvement amendment -

Deciliter = 100ml or 0.1 liter

Ethylenediamine Tetra-acetic Acid

Eutecic mixture of local anesthetics

Fresh Frozen Plasma

Fever of Unknown Origin

Gravitational force

Glucose

Glucose tolerannce test

Hemoglobin = carries oxygen in the red blod cells