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1 Side A Is a by-product of hemolysis. The reddish-yellow pigment is removed from the body by the liver... Is used as a screening test in diagnostic coagulation studies. It is ordered in conjunction... Is used primarily to detect disorders of blood lipids and to evaluate the risk potential... Is an enzyme that is released into the circulation following the injury or death of cells in... Test used to diagnose anemia. It is also helpful in conditions marked by a high turnover of... Is an electrolyte that offsets kidney activity for the discharge of toxins. It is essential... Is a non-protein nitrogen compound that helps maintain acid-base balance. This test is ordered... Measures the interaction of platelets with the blood vessel wall and the formation of a clot... Is an enzyme that is widely distributed in tissue. A significant concentration of this enzyme... Test conducted to check adrenal hormone function. Tube Color: Red Top Is an enzyme originating mainly in the bone, liver, Side B Bilirubin PT (Prothrombin Time) Cholesterol AST (Asparate Aminotransferase) Vitamin B12 Electrolytes - Sodium Ammonia Bleeding Time (Duke and Ivy Methods) ACP (Acid Phosphatase) Cortisol ALP (Alkanine Phosphatase)

2 and placenta. It is used as a tumor marker... Test used to determine the blood type of all blood donors and all potential blood recipients. Tube... Is the rate at which RBC's settle out of unclotted blood in 1 hour. This test is often used... Is used for basic screening in all patients. This test gives information about the patients... Is a testing done in conjunction with the ABO test. Tube Color: Red Top Used to detect Septicemia Tube Color: Yellow top A common heart medication; test is necessary to perform therapeutic drug monitoring to manage... A test used to diagnose impaired renal function. Tube Color: Red top Test used to detect the presence of the anitbody to the human immunodeficiency virus. It is... Test used as a diagnostic tool for monitering diabetes therapy. The test is ordered every Test is used to confirm myocardial or pulmonary infarction. It is also used as a tumor marker... Test measures the concentration of total ABO (Blood Typing) ESR (Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate) CBC (Complete Blood Count) RH Typing Blood Culture Digoxin Creatinine HIV Antibody Hemoglobin A1C LD (Lactic Acid Dehydrogenase) Calcium

3 amounts of this in the blood. It is used to evaluate... Test done to detect the presence of alcohol, to indicate overdose, or alcohol impaired driving. Tube... This content measures cellular toxic waste. It is vital to the acid base balance and lung,... This is involved in adrenal, kidney, bladder, and bowel function. Elevated levels are seen... This test is used to diagnose autoimmune diseases such as lupus, scleroderma, and rhematoid... Is an enzyme found in the heart and skeletal muscles. The tesr is used to detect injury to... A glycolytic enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of glucose. It is used in diagnostic situations... This test is used to assess fluid and electrolyte balance. It increases with dehydration and... A mineral essential for the formation of RBC's and hemoglobin. It is also necessary for the... Test used to detect any disorder of glucose metabolism and as an aid in diabetes management. Tube... A genetic disorder/disease that can lead to mental retardation and brain damage if untreated... ALT (Alanine Aminotransferase) Electrolyte- Carbon Dioxide Electrolyte- Chloride ANA (Antinuclear Antibody) CK (Creatine Kinase) Aldolase Osmolality Iron Glucose (Random and Fasting) PKU (Phenylketouria)

4 A mineral essential to heart and kidney function. It maintains heart rate, general muscle strength,... Levels of this are used to detect pregnancy in women or trophoblastic tumors in men. Tube... Test used to evaluate the intrinsic pathway. It is also used to moniter heparin therapy. Tube... This test is used as an index to metabolic activity and for renal function. A reduced level... An enzyme that is produced by the pancreas, salivary glands, liver, and fallopian tubes. It... This test is used to evaluate clients with possible artherosclerosis. It is used as an indication... This test is used to diagnose pancreatitis. Tube color: Red top This substance is formed in the liver. It is carried to the kidneys by the blood to be excreted... Measurement of this substance is often used in the evaluation of renal failure, gout, and leukemia. Tube... Is the primary storage form iron takes in the body. Tube color: Red top This reflects serum anioncation balance and helps distinguish types of metabolic acidosis. Tube... Electrolyte- Potassium HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) APTT (Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time) Magnesium Amylase Triglycerides Lipase BUN (Blood Urea Nitrogen) Uric Acid Ferritin Electrolyte- Anion Gap

5 Flashcard Tubes and Terms Side A Side B The process by which blood vessels are 1 Hemostatis repaired after an injury. It starts from vascular contraction Vascular phase2. Platelet phase3. 2 Four stages of Hemostatis Coagulation phase4. Fibrinolysis Injury to a blood vessel causes it to 3 Stage one of hemostatis constrict, slowing the flow of blood Injury to the endothelial lining causes 4 Stage two of hemostatis platelets to adhere to it.additional platelets stick... Involves a cascade of interactions of 5 Stage three - coagulation phase coagulation factors that converts the temporary platelet... This is the breakdown and removal of the 6 Stage four - Fibrinolysis clot. As tissue repair starts, plasmin (an enzyme)... 7 SPECIAL SPECIMEN HANDLING SPECIAL SPECIMEN HANDLING Some tests require that the specimen 8 Warmed Specimen collected be kept warm until the serum is separated from... Some test require that the specimen 9 Chilled Specimens collected be chilled immediately after collection in an... wrap in aluminum foild immediately after 10 Light-sensitive specimens they are drawn.exposure to light coudl alter the test... C.A. are antibodies produced in response to 11 Cold Agglutinins Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection (atypical pneumonia)... Some tests require that the specimen 12 Chilled specimens collected be chilled immediately after collection in crushed...

6 13 Specimens that require Chilling Specimens that require protection from Light Specimens requiring 37 degree Celsius Collection and transportation 16 ORDER OF DRAW ORDER OF DRAW Order of draw recommended by National Healthcareer Association what should you do if a light blue is the only tube to be drawn - ammonia- Arterial Blood Gases (also determine PH)- Gastrin - Glucagon- Lactic Acid- Parathyroid... - Bilirubin-Carotene-Red Cell Folate- Serum Folate- Urine Porphyrins- Vitamin B12 - Cold agglutinin- Cryofibrinogen- Cryoglobulin (Cryoprotein) 1. blood culture or vials2. sodium citrate tubes (e.g. blue tops)3. Serum tubes with or without... draw a red top tube first to eliminate potential contamination from the skin or needle.this Color Tube for EDTA Lavender top 20 Color tube for heparin Green top color for Serum tube with or without clot 21 red top activator or gel 22 Color for sodium citrate tube blue top 23 Color for oxalate/fluoride tube Gray top ADDITIVES- contains EDTA, which 24 Lavender top tube additives inhibits coagulation by binding to calcium present in the specimen.-... ADDITIVE- Contains the anticoagulant 25 Light-blue top tube Sodium Citrate, which also prevents coagulation by binding... ADDITIVE- sodium heparin- lithium 26 Green top tube heparin- ammonium heparin GENERALfor plasma determinations... ADDITIVE- Potassium oxalate (prevents 27 Gray top tube clotting by binding calcium)- Sodium fluoride (preserves... ADDITIVE- Clot activator (glass particles, 28 Red/gray (speckled) top tube silica and celite which hastens clot formation -... ADDITIVE- none - additive or 29 Red top anticoagulant GENERAL- plain vaccum tube- no inversions- collected... ADDITIVES- contains potassium EDTA 30 Pink top GENERAL- used by Blood Banks for molecular and testing of...

7 31 Royal Blue 32 Brown test tube 33 Yellow tube ADDITIVES- Sodium heparin (8 inversions)- Na2 EDTA (8 inversions)- NONE COMMON TESTS- for trace... ADDITIVE- Sodium heparin (8 inversions)common TESTS- For lead determinations.- certified to... ADDITIVE- Sodium polyanetholesulfonate (8 inversions)general - For blood culture specimen...

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