Final Flashcards
Total cholesterol reading of 250 is considered?
High
What type of specimen is required for most blood chemistry tests?
Serum
The blood urea nitrogen is used to
Test kidney disease
Normal range for fasting blood sugar?
70-110mg/dl
What is the purpose of self monitoring of blood glucose?
> to maintain good blood glucose
delay or prevent complication
mAke insulin decision
to test when side effects occur
What’s an antigen? Examples?
Substance capable with combine with an antibody. Ex. Virus, toxins, allergens and blood antigens.
Test that screens for inflammatory diseases?
ESR
Test is used to detect blood incompatibility promlem with mother and unborn child?
RH antibody
Normal value for an ESR in an adult man?
0-10
0-20 over 50
Correct order of draw
Yellow, lt blue, red, green, lavander, gray
Tube used for coagulation studies ?
Lt blue
Tube used for blood chemistry
Red red/ black
What hormone is needed for normal use of glucose?
Insulin
Symptoms of diabetes
Constant hunger, blurred vision, headache, dizzy, extreme thirst, frequent urination
Purpose of GTT?
Body’s ability to process glucose over a certain amount of time.
Name of condition in which glucose in the blood is abnormally low?
Hypoglycemia
Red tube
No additive
Yellow tube
Sps
Gray tube
Potassium oxilate / sodium fluoride
Lavander tube
EDTA
Lt blue
Sodium citrate
Green tube
Heparin
Potassium
Hyperkalemia
Calcium
Hypercalcemia
BUN
Kidney disease / dehydration
Cholesterol
Normal level >200
Creatinie
Renal function
FBS
Diabetes screening
Sodium
Hypernatremia
T4
Access thyroid function
Triglycerides
Less than 150 mg/dl
Uric acid
Renal faluire and gout
LDL
Bad cholesterol
All the following are electrolytes except? A) na+ B) k+ C)water D)CI
C) water
When centrifuging you should?
Balance all your samples equally filled tubes across each other
What type of blood is needed for rapid mono test?
Whole blood
Infectious mono is by?
Epstein bar virus
Sx of mono
Headache, fever, soar throat