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Lab Safety And Quality Assurance Flashcards

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OSHA

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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Sadety standards for clinical laboratories are initiated, governed, and reviewed by these agencies or committees

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OSHA
CLSI
CDC
CAP
TJC
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A nonprofit educational organization providing a forum for development, promotion, and use of national and international standards

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Clinical And Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)

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Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Public Health Service

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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CAP

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College of American Pathologists

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Used when opening rubber-stoppered test tubes to minimize aerosol production (introduction of substances into the air)

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Gauze square

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Used for pipetting

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Autodilutors or safety bulb

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Most important way to prevent cross contamination and the spread of the disease

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Hand washing

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All work surfaces should be cleaned and sanitized at the beginning and end of work with

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1:10 dilution household bleach

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Managing spills in a clinical laboratory

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Wear gloves and coat
Absorb the blood with disposable towel
Using 1:10 diluted bleach, clean the spill site
Wipe down the spill site with paper towels soaked with diluted bleach
Place disposable waste materials into biohazard container

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Body fluid specimens, including blood, must be placed in

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Biohazard containers

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Primary infectious waste containers

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Red plastic bags

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Secondary waste container

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Metal or plastic cans

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Terminal disposal of infectious waste

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Incineration

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Alternative method for terminal disposal

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Terminal sterilization by autoclaving

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Phases of testing

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Pre analytical
Analytical
Post analytical

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Describes how close a test result it to the true value

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Accuracy

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Describes how close the test results are to one another when repeated analyses of the same specimen are performed

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Precision

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Proportion of subjects with a specific disease or condition who have a positive test result

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Sensitivity

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Proportion of subjects without the specific disease or condition who have a negative test result

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Specificity

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Proportion of a population who have the disease

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Prevalence

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Number of subjects who have the disease within a defined period per 100,000 population

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Incidence

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Has known value and is similar in composition to the patient’s blood

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Control specimen

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Process that destroys the complement activity

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Inactivation

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Known to interfere with the reactions of certain syphilis tests and complement components

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Complement

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Can agglutinate latex particles and cause a false positive reaction in latex passive agglutination assays

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Complement

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Cause lysis of the indicator cells in hemagglutination

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Complement

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Complement in body fluids can be inactivated by heating to

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56 oC for 30 minutes

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Reinactivation of complement is done by heating it to

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56 oC for 10 minutes

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Used in the immunology-serology lab for the quantitative transfer of reagents and the preparations of serial dilution of specimens such as serum

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Pipettes

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Used to deliver the amount of liquid contained between two calibration marks in a cylindrical tube or pipette

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Graduated pipettes

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Recognized by a frosted ring at the noncalibrated end with calibrations extending to the tip

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Serologic pipettes

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Allow fast, repetitive measurement and delivery of solutions of equal volumes

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Automatic pipettes

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Piston operated devices that allow repeated, accurate, reproducible delivery of specimens, reagents, and other liquids requiring measurement in small amounts

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Micropipettors

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Used for measuring serial amounts of relatively small volumes of the same liquid. The volume dispensed is determined by the pipettor setting

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Automatic dispensers or syringes

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Used to prepare a number of different samples for analysis in automated instruments. These devices pipette a slected aliquot of sample and diluent into the receiving vessel.

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Diluter-dispensers

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Dual-piston type, with one used for the sample and the other for the diluent or reagent

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Diluter-dispensers

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Contain positive and negative controls

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Reagent test kits

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Formerly known as Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO)

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The Joint Commission (TJC)

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