Phlebotomy Quiz

A person should sustain from eating for how many hours prior to a fasting blood test?

Lavender tubes must be 2/3 full.

Always recap your needle before putting it into the sharps container.

How many inches above the site should be the tourniquet be tied?

Where is the blood collected, stored, and prepared for transfusions?

Blood cultures are collected in a __________ tube.

How many times should a light-blue tube be inverted?

What is the recommended depth of a heel puncture on an infant?

The OGTT (oral Glucose Tolerance test or GTT test diagnoses _____________

In therapeutic blood monitoring, the trough levels are tested ___________

arteries and arterioles carry oxygenated blood?

Tiny red spots on the skin cause from the rupturing of capillaries are called?

When someone is in shock you should keep them cool.

An open wound can be a portal of entry in an infection chain.

What is the preferred antiseptic for venipuncture?

Which tube would you use to measure lactic acid ?

What tube is used for ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate?

Sodium Citrate is the additive in which tube?

If the needle passes completely through the vein you must pull it out of the arm and try another vein.

Contact, droplet and airborne are ______________.

Which tube is used for a sickle cell (anemia) screen?

What special handling does a cold agglutinins test require ?

What is a condition that could cause leukopenia (low white blood cell count)?

Permanent surgical connection between an artery and a vein?

What part of the infant is a PKU test performed on ?