TERMS Flashcards
“an incision into a vein”
PHLEBOTOMY
Oldest medical procedures by early Egyptians
PHLEBOTOMY
is first used to cure diseases and maintain the body in a state of well- being
“bloodletting”
believed that disease was caused by an excess of body fluids, including blood, bile, and phlegm, and that removal of the excess would cause the body to return to or maintain a healthy state.
Hippocrates
Bloodletting is now called___
“therapeutic phlebotomy”
is cross-trained in venipuncture, capillary collection, patient care, receptionist duties, sample processing and computer work.
Phlebotomist
provide the personal and professional rules of performance moral behaviour as set by members of a profession.
code of ethics
focus on the patient to ensure that all members of a health-care team possess and exhibit the skill, knowledge, training, professionalism, and moral standards necessary to serve the patient.
Medical ethics or bioethics
wrongful act committed by one person against another that causes harm to the person or his or her property.
Tort
threat to touch another person without his or her consent and with the intention of causing fear of harm.
Assault
actual harmful touching of a person without his or her consent.
Battery
spoken or written words that can injure a person’s reputation.
Defamation
false defamatory writing that is published.
Libel
-false and malicious spoken word.
Slander
s the violation of the patient’s right to be left alone and the right to be free from unwanted exposure to public view.
Invasion of Privacy
misconduct or lack of skill by a health-care professional that results in injury to the patient.
Medical Malpractice
as failure to give reasonable care by the health-care provider, must be proven in a malpractice suit
Negligence
is responsible for the analysis of surgical specimens, frozen sections, biopsies, cytological specimens, and autopsies.
Anatomical Area
responds to telephone calls, handles specimen collection requests and handles some specimens.
Administrative Office
collects samples from patients and processes samples for testing or transport.
Phlebotomy (Sample Collection)
cytologists (CTs) process and examine tissue and body fluids for the presence of abnormal cells, such as cancer cells.
Cytology Section
is one of the most common tests performed in cytology.
Papanicolaou (Pap) smear
histologytechnicians (HTs) and technologists(HTLs) process and stain tissue obtained from biopsies, surgery, autopsies, and frozen sections. A pathologist then examines the tissue.
Histology Section
is the section in which chromosome studies are performed to detect genetic disorders. Blood, amniotic fluid, tissue, and bone marrow specimens are analyzed.
Cytogenetics