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| ____ blood is just under the skin. The most practical sites to use are the ring and great (middle) finger. |
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| ____ is also known as phlebotomy. A phlebotomist is a person trained to perform this procedure. |
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| When obtaining a fingerstick, puncture the site quickly with a firm, steady up and down motion to approximately a ____ depth. |
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| When obtaining capillary blood, be sure to avoid areas that are ____, calloused, or injured. |
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| The ____ is placed on the patient's upper arm, about three inches above the elbow. |
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| In patients whose blood is very difficult to draw, try using a ____ ____ cuff as a tourniquet. |
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| You should ask the patient to ____ the fist ONLY if the vein does not stand out. |
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| ____ means the breakdown of blood cells. |
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| Usually, a ____mL to ____mL syringe is used when drawing several tubes, each 5 to 15mL. |
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| Some patients are extremely difficult to obtain blood from; in these cases, it might be necessary to draw the sample from a vein on the back of the ____, using a smaller guage needle. |
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| If a patient faints from this position, first remove the tourniquet, withdraw the needle, and hold a bandage over the puncture site. Spirits of ____ can help revive the patient. |
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| A ____ is a collection of blood just under the skin. This bleeding causes discoloration and sometimes swelling. |
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| In a ____ draw, you always want to push in the plunger all the way to release any air from the barrel, and should only be inserted no more than 1/4 to 1/2 inch, or it can pass through the vein. |
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| Attach a blood transfer device to the syringe and allow the blood to transfer using the tube's vacuum. Do not depress the ____ of the syringe. Fill the tubes with blood from the syringe according to the correct order of draw. Blood smears should be made at this time if needed. |
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| Forcing blood into tubes causes ____. Vacuum tubes fill easily because the vacuum draws in blood. |
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| When obtaining blood with a vacuum tube, always use a ___ to ___ degree angle. |
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| If a blood smear is needed for a differential, turn the CBC ____ tube (if still attached to adapter) upside down and gently press tube down to release a drop of blood onto the glass slide. |
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| Stand red topped tubes ____. |
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| A butterfly needle guage is typically ____ guage. |
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| Red-stoppered tubes are used to collect whole blood that is allowed to clot so that the ____ can be drawn off by centrifugation. |
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| Lavender-stoppered tubes contain ethylene diamine tetracetic acid or ____, additive. |
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| Gray-stoppered tubes are used in ____ ____ tests. |
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| Blue-stoppered tubes must be completely full because of the large amounts of ____. These tubes are ost often the 5mL size and are used for testing prothrombin times. |
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| You should always ____ plasma until testing can be performed. |
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| Yellow tubes are used for ____ ____. |
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| When documenting blood collection, ____ ____ may NOT be kept in the specimen log book, unless the test is performed in house. |
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| A ____ is an instrument that rotates at variable rates of speed to separate components of the blood. |
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| ____ specimens result from an anticoagulant present in the vacuum tube. |
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