ASCP – 3 Questions and Answers
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Which of the following is part of the standard protocol when doing a bleeding time? ✔✔A
butterfly-type bandage is used
When collecting blood using a syringe, samples should be placed into evacuated tubes in the
following order: ✔✔Blue, lavender, red
The outer layer of the heart is the: ✔✔Epicardium
A platelet count of 650,000 per cubic millimeter is termed: ✔✔Thrombocytosis
A phlebotomist with 6 collection orders for patients in the hospital receives a handwritten
laboratory order for a STAT glucose after only completing the fourth phlebotomy. The
phlebotomist should: ✔✔Collect the STAT glucose, deliver it to the laboratory, then return to
perform the other 2 collections
Point-of-care testing (POCT) occurs: ✔✔At the patient's bedside, In the emergency department,
In patients' homes
Quality control for point-of-care testing (POCT) must be performed: ✔✔Each day of use
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, Special considerations for phlebotomy on an elderly person would most likely include:
✔✔Decreasing the angle of penetration of the venipuncture needle
A body fluid that should be protected from light before analysis for bilirubin is: ✔✔Amniotic
fluid
Skin puncture on an infant should be done on the plantar surface of the heel, medial to an
imaginary line extending from the middle of the great toe to the heel or lateral to an imaginary
line extending from between the fourth and fifth toes to the heel to avoid injury to the: ✔✔Bone
The most important part of the blood collection procedure is: ✔✔Skin antisepsis
Veins carry: ✔✔Deoxygenated blood to the heart
When collecting blood from an artery for arterial blood gases (ABG), it is not necessary to pull
back on the plunger of the syringe because: ✔✔Arterial blood is under pressure from the
contraction of the ventricles
A plasma protein that is not present in serum is: ✔✔Fibrinogen
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Which of the following is part of the standard protocol when doing a bleeding time? ✔✔A
butterfly-type bandage is used
When collecting blood using a syringe, samples should be placed into evacuated tubes in the
following order: ✔✔Blue, lavender, red
The outer layer of the heart is the: ✔✔Epicardium
A platelet count of 650,000 per cubic millimeter is termed: ✔✔Thrombocytosis
A phlebotomist with 6 collection orders for patients in the hospital receives a handwritten
laboratory order for a STAT glucose after only completing the fourth phlebotomy. The
phlebotomist should: ✔✔Collect the STAT glucose, deliver it to the laboratory, then return to
perform the other 2 collections
Point-of-care testing (POCT) occurs: ✔✔At the patient's bedside, In the emergency department,
In patients' homes
Quality control for point-of-care testing (POCT) must be performed: ✔✔Each day of use
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, Special considerations for phlebotomy on an elderly person would most likely include:
✔✔Decreasing the angle of penetration of the venipuncture needle
A body fluid that should be protected from light before analysis for bilirubin is: ✔✔Amniotic
fluid
Skin puncture on an infant should be done on the plantar surface of the heel, medial to an
imaginary line extending from the middle of the great toe to the heel or lateral to an imaginary
line extending from between the fourth and fifth toes to the heel to avoid injury to the: ✔✔Bone
The most important part of the blood collection procedure is: ✔✔Skin antisepsis
Veins carry: ✔✔Deoxygenated blood to the heart
When collecting blood from an artery for arterial blood gases (ABG), it is not necessary to pull
back on the plunger of the syringe because: ✔✔Arterial blood is under pressure from the
contraction of the ventricles
A plasma protein that is not present in serum is: ✔✔Fibrinogen
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