lab 1 - LABORATORY GUIDELINE IN THE LABORATORY Flashcards
SAFETY STANDARDS AND AGENCIES
-U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA)
-Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
-College of American Pathologists (CAP)
-The Joint Commission (TJC)
A nonprofit educational organization that
provides a forum for the development,
promotion, and use of national and
international standards
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
Step by step procedure in SOPs
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
Normal values with each laboratory tests
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
Different manner of reporting of each
laboratory tests
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
Part of the US Department of Health and
Human Services Public Health Service
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Public health information is mandated by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
focuses on Emerging and notifiable infectious disease to
a certain country or community
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Provide information to the public, what
would be the transmission of a certain
infectious disease, signs, symptoms, and how
would be the virulent factor of this pathogen
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Different levels of organism that we may
encounter in the laboratory, different
classifications right we have the level one
level two level three and level four and with
the classifications of organism we have an
appropriate way on how to handle this kinds
of organism
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Head of the laboratory, they
have an a specialization for the anatomical
and clinical pathology
Pathologist
Classification of laboratories
- Has designated area and proper
ventilation, and humidity.
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
The Joint Commission (TJC)
In line with the different facilities
The Joint Commission (TJC)
Give the criteria in terms of maintaining the
facilities and adequacy of the working area on
each tab type or classification of laboratory.
The Joint Commission (TJC)
Staff must wear ____ and be additionally
protected from contamination by infectious agents.
laboratory coats
five general safety practices
- Staff must wear laboratory coats and be additionally
protected from contamination by infectious agents. - Food and drinks should not be consumed in work
areas or stored in the same area as specimens.
Containers, refrigerators, or freezers used for
specimens should be marked as containing a
biohazard. - Specimens needing centrifugation are capped and
placed into a centrifuge with a sealed dome. - A gauze square is used when opening rubber
stoppered test tubes to minimize aerosol production
(introduction of substances into the air). - Auto dilutors or safety bulbs (orange or blue) are
used for pipetting. Pipetting of any clinical material by
mouth is strictly forbidden.
Specimens needing centrifugation are __ and __ into a centrifuge with a sealed dome.
capped;
placed
A ____is used when opening rubber
stoppered test tubes to minimize aerosol production
(introduction of substances into the air).
gauze square
_____ are
used for pipetting. Pipetting of any clinical material by
mouth is strictly forbidden
Auto dilutors or safety bulbs (orange or blue)
Universal precautions instituted by the cdc in 1985 to protect health care workers from exposure to what blood borne pathogens?
blood borne pathogens, primarily
hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV
which causes
Syphilis
Typhoid
Dengue
____ were instituted by the
CDC in year ___ to protect health-care workers from
exposure to blood-borne pathogens,
Universal precautions (UP); 1985
the guideline of UP or universal precautions recommended
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-Wearing gloves when collecting or handling
blood and body fluids contaminated with
blood
-Wearing face shields when there is a danger of
blood splashing on mucous membranes
- Disposing of all needles and sharp objects in
PUNCTURE RESISTANT CONTAINERS
without recapping
Fishing technique
A modification of universal precautions
Body Substance Isolation (BSI)
Not limited to blood borne pathogens and considers
all body fluids and moist body substances to be
potentially infectious
Body Substance Isolation (BSI)