Clinical Chemistry Study Exam Questions With Complete Solutions.

Disposal of infectious materials: Off-site activation correct answer: Packaging and shipping of untreated wastes to an offsite facility for inactivation and disposal Stericycle Spectrophotometry correct answer: Automation Analyzers correct answer: Continuous Flow Liquids are pumped through system of continuous tubing. Centrifugal Analysis Force of centrifugation transfers & contains liquids. Discrete Analysis (Most popular) Separation of each sample & reagent in a separate container Beer's law correct answer: The concentration of a substance is directly proportional to the amount of light absorbed or inversely proportional to the logarithm of the transmitted light. Absorbance correct answer: Is an expression of the amount of light absorbed by a solution. Percent Transmittance correct answer: Is the amount of light that passes through a colored solution compared with the amount of light that passes through a blank or standard solution. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) correct answer: Was enacted in 1996 to establish a minimum standard for security of electronic patient health information to protect the following: Confidentiality Integrity Availability Glycolysis correct answer: Process of breaking down glucose for energy into pyruvate or lactate (anaerobic); occurs in the cytoplasm and provides 2 moles of ATP per molecule of glucose Glycogenesis correct answer: Process of forming glycogen from glucose