PHLEBOTOMY NATIONAL UPDATED EXAMS SCRIPT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔How many times do you invert a lavender? - ✔✔8
✔✔Common tests for a lavender - ✔✔CBC, WBC differential count, hemoglobin and
hematocrit, ESR, sickle cell screening
✔✔Light blue top tube additive - ✔✔sodium citrate
✔✔How many times do you invert a light blue? - ✔✔3-4
✔✔Does a light blue tube need to be completely filled? - ✔✔YES
✔✔Common tests for light blue tubes - ✔✔Prothrombin time (PT), APTT, PTT,
Fibrinogen degradation products (FDP), bleeding time (BT)
✔✔Green top tube additive - ✔✔heparin combined with sodium, lithium, or ammonium
✔✔How does heparin work? - ✔✔inhibiting thrombin in the coagulation cascade
✔✔How many times do you invert a green top tube? - ✔✔8
, ✔✔Common tests for a green top tube are? - ✔✔Chemistry tests, STAT electrolytes,
carboxyhemoglobin
✔✔Gray top tube additive - ✔✔sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate
✔✔How long does sodium fluoride preserve glucose? - ✔✔3 days
✔✔How long does lithium iodoacetate preserve glucose? - ✔✔24 hours
✔✔How many times should you invert a gray top tube? - ✔✔8
✔✔Common tests for a gray top tube are? - ✔✔Fasting blood sugar (FBS), glucose
tolerance test (GTT), Blood alcohol levels, and lactic acid measurement
✔✔FBS - ✔✔fasting blood sugar
✔✔GTT - ✔✔glucose tolerance test
✔✔PT - ✔✔Prothrombin time
✔✔APTT - ✔✔activated partial thromboplastin time
✔✔PTT - ✔✔partial thromboplastin time
✔✔FDP - ✔✔fibrinogen degradation products
✔✔BT - ✔✔bleeding time
✔✔ESR - ✔✔erythrocyte sedimentation rate
✔✔tiger top tube (SST) additive - ✔✔serum separator
✔✔SST - ✔✔serum separator tubes
✔✔How many times should you invert a tiger top tube? - ✔✔five times
✔✔Common tests for a tiger top tube are? - ✔✔most chemistry tests
✔✔Red top tube additive - ✔✔no additive or anticoagulant
✔✔How many times do you invert a red top tube? - ✔✔0
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔How many times do you invert a lavender? - ✔✔8
✔✔Common tests for a lavender - ✔✔CBC, WBC differential count, hemoglobin and
hematocrit, ESR, sickle cell screening
✔✔Light blue top tube additive - ✔✔sodium citrate
✔✔How many times do you invert a light blue? - ✔✔3-4
✔✔Does a light blue tube need to be completely filled? - ✔✔YES
✔✔Common tests for light blue tubes - ✔✔Prothrombin time (PT), APTT, PTT,
Fibrinogen degradation products (FDP), bleeding time (BT)
✔✔Green top tube additive - ✔✔heparin combined with sodium, lithium, or ammonium
✔✔How does heparin work? - ✔✔inhibiting thrombin in the coagulation cascade
✔✔How many times do you invert a green top tube? - ✔✔8
, ✔✔Common tests for a green top tube are? - ✔✔Chemistry tests, STAT electrolytes,
carboxyhemoglobin
✔✔Gray top tube additive - ✔✔sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate
✔✔How long does sodium fluoride preserve glucose? - ✔✔3 days
✔✔How long does lithium iodoacetate preserve glucose? - ✔✔24 hours
✔✔How many times should you invert a gray top tube? - ✔✔8
✔✔Common tests for a gray top tube are? - ✔✔Fasting blood sugar (FBS), glucose
tolerance test (GTT), Blood alcohol levels, and lactic acid measurement
✔✔FBS - ✔✔fasting blood sugar
✔✔GTT - ✔✔glucose tolerance test
✔✔PT - ✔✔Prothrombin time
✔✔APTT - ✔✔activated partial thromboplastin time
✔✔PTT - ✔✔partial thromboplastin time
✔✔FDP - ✔✔fibrinogen degradation products
✔✔BT - ✔✔bleeding time
✔✔ESR - ✔✔erythrocyte sedimentation rate
✔✔tiger top tube (SST) additive - ✔✔serum separator
✔✔SST - ✔✔serum separator tubes
✔✔How many times should you invert a tiger top tube? - ✔✔five times
✔✔Common tests for a tiger top tube are? - ✔✔most chemistry tests
✔✔Red top tube additive - ✔✔no additive or anticoagulant
✔✔How many times do you invert a red top tube? - ✔✔0
