A process that monitors the accuracy and reproducibility of results through the use of control specimens. ✔️✔️Quality control
What demonstrates an abrupt change from the established average value of the control for 3 days in a row? ✔️✔️Shift
A means by which quality control between laboratories is maintained. ✔️✔️Proficiency testing
What are specific microscopic tests (wet mounts, potassium hydroxide (KOH) preparations, fern test) performed by a physician for his or her
own patients? ✔️✔️Provider-performed microscopy (PPM)
What category of bioterrorism agents has the following characteristics?
Pathogens that are rarely seen in the United States, these agents have the highest priority; organisms in this category pose a risk to national
security because they can be easily disseminated or transmitted from person to person, result in high mortality rates and have the potential for
major public health impact. ✔️✔️Category A
What category of bioterrorism agents has the following characteristics?
These agents have the second highest priority and include pathogens that are moderately easy to disseminate, results in moderate morbidity
rates and low mortality rates, and require specific enhancements of the CDC's diagnostic capacity and enhanced disease surveillance.
✔️✔️Category B
Agents anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, tularemia, filoviruses, and arenaviruses are classified as ✔️✔️Category A.
Class C fire extinguishers are used for ✔️✔️Electric equipment.
OSHA has defined __________ as blood and blood products, contaminated sharps, pathology waste products, and microbiological waste.
✔️✔️Infectious waste
All employees who work with hazardous chemicals will be required to be trained about the new labels and the elements of the Safety Data
Sheet (SDS) by December 1 of ___________. ✔️✔️2013
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) are now called: ✔️✔️Safety Data Sheets
The GHS brings with it a new chemical labeling standard using ____________. ✔️✔️Pictograms
The chemistry methodology that is based on the fact that substances of clinical interest selectively absorb or emit electromagnetic energy at
different wavelengths is ✔️✔️Spectrophotometry.
Reference materials about the individual chemical are provided by all chemical manufacturers and suppliers by means of ✔️✔️Material safety
data sheet (MSDS).
How many milliliters (mL) of 0.25M NaOH are needed to make 100 mL of a 0.05 M solution of NaOH? ✔️✔️20 mL
convert Celsius to Fahrenheit? ✔️✔️9/5 (Celsius degrees number+ 32)
The microscope commonly used in cellular biology that has the ability to distinguish between living and dead cells and monitor activity within
living cells is the ✔️✔️Flourescent.
The objective that should never have oil used on it is the ✔️✔️40X objective.
If a 10 X eyepiece is used with a 45 X objective, the total magnification is ✔️✔️450
What is the order of draw of multiple evacuated tubes? ✔️✔️Blood culture (aerobic), blood culture (anaerobic), blue, red, green stopper,
lavender, and gray
What are the two general sources of blood for clinical laboratory tests? ✔️✔️Peripheral (or capillary) blood and venous blood
Order of draw for capillary specimens: ✔️✔️Blood gases, slides/smear, EDTA tubes, other additive minicontainers, and serum containers
Failure to apply sufficient pressure to the venipuncture site could result in ✔️✔️a hematoma.
What would cause the constituents, including enzymes acid phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST)
to significantly elevate the value obtained for these substances in serum? ✔️✔️. Hemolyzed specimens
, The role of the phlebotomist has never been more important to the patient and the laboratory. How many errors are caused by preanalytical
errors? ✔️✔️Two thirds
A western blot is used to detect ✔️✔️RNA.
Which of the following may be said to be true of fluorescent spectroscopy? ✔️✔️High sensitivity and high specificity
In what manner is the dye uptake by a sample following electrophoresis and staining related to the sample concentration? ✔️✔️Directly
proportional
The measurement of the decrease in intensity of an incident light beam as it passes through a solution of particles defines which of the
following methods? ✔️✔️Turbidimetry
The kidney has a function of secretion of some hormones. Which hormone is regulated by blood oxygen levels? ✔️✔️Erythropoietin
The calculation of which of the following renal function tests are becoming the standard laboratory method for determining glomerular
filtration rate (GFR). ✔️✔️Creatinine clearance
A patient with hyperparathyroidism will have which type of kidney stone? ✔️✔️Calcium oxalate
A patient with an acute HBV infection would be expected to have which set of serological test results? ✔️✔️HBsAg +, total anti-HBc +, IgM anti-
HBc +, anti-HBs -
The immediate precursor of bilirubin is ✔️✔️Biliverdin
You have a a patient's sample that has a slightly elevated ALT, LD and bilirubin with a very elevated GGT and an elevated alkaline phosphatase.
What might be the patient's diagnosis? ✔️✔️Intrahepatic cholestasis
Insulin-dependent diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults and was previously called "juvenile diabetes" is ✔️✔️Type 1.
A hormone secreted by the pancreas after a meal, responds to high glucose levels, promoting glucose entry into cells
is______________________. ✔️✔️Insulin
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Plasma proteins are the most frequently analyzed of all proteins. What are the two major measured plasma proteins? ✔️✔️. Albumin and
globulin
The highest levels of this enzyme are seen in pernicious anemia and hemolytic disorders. ✔️✔️Total LDH
What enzyme catalyzes the breakdown of starch and glycogen, and begins to increase in concentration in the blood 2 to 12 hours after onset of
an attack and peaks at 24 hours? ✔️✔️Amylase
Which of the following is a condition of deposition of plaques in the blood vessels that has been proven to lead to coronary artery disease?
✔️✔️Atherosclerosis
The best marker combination of assays for the diagnosis of an acute MI follows: ✔️✔️Myoglobin, troponins, and CK-MB
Which tissue is considered the richest source of acid phosphatase? ✔️✔️Prostate
The patient presented at the clinic after returning from a fishing trip. Chief complaint is left-sided anterior chest pain that started 3 days ago.
Patient states no injury. Which cardiac test would give the physician the best picture of diagnosis? ✔️✔️TnI
What is stimulated by the hormones glucagon, cortisol, and throxine? ✔️✔️Gluconeogenesis
What hormone is hydrophobic and insoluble in water? ✔️✔️Steroid hormones
The endocrine gland once thought to have no role in the physiology of adults, but now known for its crucial role in T-cell maturation is the
✔️✔️thymus gland