Clinical Assistants Services Flashcards
Are healthcare professionals who assist other medical professionals with patient management, basic diagnostic tests, and record keeping.
Clinical Assistants
Clinical assistants considered what phase?
Pre-analytical phase
The phlebotomy department is usually located in or near, what?
Laboratory reception area
Patients may be collecting samples while at the laboratory or collecting the sample at home and returning it to the laboratory.
Depending on the test
It is done for culture and sensitivity.
Collection of Microbiology samples
Microbiology is usually performed in?
Operating room or in the Outpatient department
To avoid contamination, what must be used?
Sterile
Give examples of Microbiology Samples.
- Swabs
- Aspirates
- Skin Scrapings
Performed primarily for the detection of a streptococcal infection.
Strep throat
It is collected using a collection kit that contains a sterile swab in a transport medium collection tube.
Throat culture
It is a mucus or phlegm collected from the trachea, bronchi, and lungs and is tested for active tuberculosis and pneumonia.
Sputum
What does sputum must be collected?
To test direct sputum smear microscopy
A large amount of sputum must be collected
First-morning sample
These samples are collected for legal purposes such as paternity testing or involving crimes.
Buccal swabs
These cells may be obtained from a buccal cheek swab.
DNA analysis
In how many seconds is a buccal cheek swab collected?
20 seconds
What buccal cheek swab was used?
Sterile dacron-tipped cotton swab
It can be used to test for HIV antibodies, hormone levels, and drug and alcohol abuse.
Saliva
This sample can detect chronic use of drugs, alcohol, heavy metals, poisons, and toxins.
Hair
Hair samples may be used for?
DNA paternity testing
The presence of Helicobacter pylori, a bacteria that damages the lining of the stomach and causes peptic ulcer, can be detected by?
C-Urea breath test
A baseline breath sample is collected by breathing into?
Balloon-like collection device
It can be used to diagnose lactose intolerance, overgrowth of bacteria in the small bowel, and rapid passage of food through the small intestine.
Hydrogen breath test
Give examples of a collection of culture samples
- Collection of Microbiology samples
- Throat swab
Give examples of a collection of non-blood samples
- Sputum
- Saliva
- Hair
- Breath
- Buccal swabs
Also known as post-mortem examination.
It is a specialized surgical procedure used to determine the cause and manner of death.
Autopsy
Give an example of an assistant in blood donor processing.
- Donor interview and screening
- Donor identification
- Donor informed consent
- Venipuncture
- Blood product collection
- Post phlebotomy care
- Complication management
How many ml of blood are in the blood bag?
450mL of blood with mixed 63mL of anticoagulant
What anticoagulant is commonly used in blood donation?
- Citrate-phosphate-dextrose
- Citrate-phosphate-dextrose-adenine
It delivers a range of testing services for reference testing of screen reactive blood donors to HIV, Hepatitis B, C Syphilis, and Malaria.
TTI-NRL
What is the required age for blood donation?
18-65 years old
What gauge needle was used for the donor collection?
15-16 gauge needle
In how many hours should place a sterile gauze and bandage over the site and instruct the donor to keep the bandage?
4 hours
It is the site of red blood cell production.
Bone marrow
Bone marrow samples are collected by inserting a?
Jamshidi needle
It is made by gently touching the specimen onto the slide three times to make imprints of the specimen.
Three to four touch prep slides
The biopsy is then placed in?
10% formaldehyde
In the separation of serum and plasma, how many hours must be separated?
2 hours
It is a portion of the sample that is placed in a separate tube.
Sample aliquoting
