- The sum or total of your physical, mental, and social health is called
- The way the parts and systems of your body work together is called
- Which term refers to orders that receive priority in the clinical laboratory's testing queue and should be reserved for situations in which a result is needed for urgent medical care?
- Screening or Confirmatory testing?- Purpose is to identify treatable conditions in healthy individuals without symptoms because early diagnosis and intervention lead to improved long-term outcomes- Less expensive and more widely available- Designed to identify all individuals who may have the disease of interest
- What color do gram-positive bacteria stain?
- What color do gram-negative bacteria stain?
- Screening or Confirmatory testing?- Intended to correctly separate those individuals who have a disease from those who do not
- Which term refers to values of test results that indicate immediate risk to the health or life of the patient and therefore require urgent communication with the ordering provider?
- Inflammatory or Septic arthritis?- Volume: often > 3.5 mL- Clarity: opaque- Color: yellow-green- Viscosity: variable- WBC/mm3: 15,000-100,000- % PMN: > 75- Culture: positive
- Joint effusion or signs suggestive of inflammation within the joint without a known cause is indication for which analysis?
- Traumatic puncture or Subarachnoid hemorrhage?- CSF pressure: low- Duration of bleeding: decreases when CSF is withdrawn- Clotting: present- Repeat LP: not bloody- Centrifugation: clear fluid
- What is the medical term for the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream?
- Inflammatory or Septic arthritis?- Volume: often > 3.5 mL- Clarity: translucent-opaque- Color: yellow-clear- Viscosity: low- WBC/mm3: 2,000-100,000- % PMN: > 50- Culture: negative
- Bacterial or Viral meningitis?- Opening pressure: usually normal- Appearance: clear- Protein: normal-elevated- Glucose: normal-elevated- WBCs: 50-300 mm3 w/ lymphocytes- Gram stain: negative
- An elevation in which type of cells can indicate contamination of a clean catch urine specimen?
- Why is increased ICP a contraindication for an LP? What should be done first if suspicious of increased ICP?
- Gout or Pseudogout?- Monosodium urate crystals- Needle-shaped- Negatively birefringent
- Contraindications for an LP:- Local _____ _____- Spinal _____ or brain _____- Increased _____ (mass lesion, obstruction, etc.) - _____ / bleeding diathesis (platelet < 50,000, platelet dysfunction, INF > 1.4)- Poor patient _____
- Traumatic puncture or Subarachnoid hemorrhage?- CSF pressure: high- Duration of bleeding: no change when CSF is withdrawn- Clotting: absent- Repeat LP: bloody- Centrifugation: xanthochromia
- Gout or Pseudogout?- Calcium pyrophosphate crystals- Rhomboid-shaped (pillows)- Positively birefringent