WEEK 1 QOD Review

Front

What part of the evacuated tube system allows multiple collection tubes to be filled with one puncture?

Back

The interior needle/tube holder

Front

When drawing a specimen for an ammonia test, what should a phlebotomy technician have ready for specimen transportation?

Back

An ice slurry

Front

Blood exits the heart through the body’s largest artery, the ________________.

Back

aorta

Front

A requisition calls for the following tests: CBC, CMP, and PTT. Which of the following reflects the proper order of draw? Options: Citrate, SST, EDTA.

Back

Citrate, SST, EDTA

Front

A phlebotomy technician is performing a venipuncture collection on a young adult and needs to draw a citrate tube, a serum separator tube, and an EDTA tube. The citrate tube and SST fill quickly. The EDTA tube fills partway, and then blood flow stops. What is the most likely explanation?

Back

The tube’s vacuum is compromised.

Front

When is a sharps receptacle considered to be overfilled according to OSHA standards?

Back

When it is more than 3/4 full

Front

An emergency room physician directs a phlebotomist to draw blood from an unconscious patient of unknown identity. This is

Back

Legal under the concept of implied consent.

Front

An infant’s blood volume may be approximated by multiplying the child’s ___________________ by ________.

Back

Weight in kilograms, 80

Front

Two sets of blood culture bottles are to be filled for a patient. Which of the following is true? Both sets must be filled from the same venipuncture site. The sets must be filled from two different venipuncture sites. The sets are filled from the same venipuncture site if possible, and from two sites only if the blood flow stops before all bottles are filled. One set is filled from a venipuncture site and the second set is filled from a capillary puncture site.

Back

The sets must be filled from two different venipuncture sites.