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Case Study vocab 2
Case Study vocbulary 2
Abbreviations | What it stands for |
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ABY | Antibody screen ( a blood bank test ) |
AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
Anat or Clin Path | Anatomic or clinical pathology |
APTT | Automated partial thromboplastin time |
BILI, Dir and Total | Bilirubin, Direct and Total |
BMT | Bone marrow transplant |
BP | Blood Pressure |
CAP | College of American Pathologist |
CBC | Complete Blood COunt |
Cl- | Cloride (ionic) |
CLIA | Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment-the law that regulates human testing |
CO2 | Carbon Dioxide |
DIFF | A differential blood smear |
dL | Deciliter= 100ml or 0.1 liter |
EDTA | Ethylenediamine Tetra-acetic Acid: the anticoagulant in Lavender top tubes, used in CBC |
EMLA | Eutectic Mixture of Local Anesthetics (an emulsion that can be applied to skin to deaden pain |
FFP | Fresh frozen plasma |
FUo | Fever of unknown origin |
G force | Gravitational Force |
GLUC | glucose |
GTT | Glucose Tolerance test |
HbG or HB | Hemoglobin-carries oxygen inside the red blood cells |
HBV | Hepatitis B virus |
HCG | Human Chorionic Gonadotropin=hormone secreted in pregnancy |
HCT | Hematocrit=%of packed RBCs per 100ml whole blood |
HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act-protects the security & confidentiality of electronic health information |
Hrs PP | Hours post-pranial (after eating) |
HTLV | Virus associated with AIDS |
IV | Intravenous-within the veins |
JVAHO | "joint Commission" regulated hospitals and provides standards |
K+ | Potassium (ionic) |
LYTES | Electrolytes (Na, K, CL, CO2 are the major four) |
MI | Myocardial infarction= heart attack |
mL | Milliliter=1/1000 liter |
MONO | Infectious Mononucleosis |
MSDS | Material safety Data Sheets |
Na | Abbreviation for Sodium |
Na Citrate | Sodium Citrate=an anticoagulant in blue top tubes |
Na Fluoride | Sodium Fluoride=an anticoagulant that inhibits glycolysis |
Na Heparin | Sodium Heparin=an anticoagulant in green top tubes |
Na Oxalate | Sodium Oxalate=an anticoagulant in black top tubes |
CLSI | Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute-recommends quality standards and guidelines for clinical laboratory procedures |
OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration that regulates safe work practices |
Packed RBCs | Red Blood Cells with the plasma removed as much as possible |
pH | a number that indicated how much a chemical solution is acid or base nature; the lower the number, the more acid. Water is 7=neutral Ammonia is above 7 |
PLT | Platelet=cellular component of blood that forms a plug needed to stop bleeding in humans |
POCT | Point of Care testing=testing performed at the patient's side rather than sent off to a lab (e.g. sugar, urinalysis, cholesterol) |
POL | Physican office laboratories |
PPE | Personal Protective Equipment |
ProTime | Prothrombin Time/test extrinsic coagulation factors |
PTT | Partial thrombosplastin time= like APTT |
QA | Quality Assurance=systemic method for insuring accuracy and validity in testing |
QC | Quality Control=practices that are used as part of the overall QA effort |
QNS | Quantity Not Sufficient=there is not enough blood to do the test |
RBC | Red Blood Cell=the cell that uses its hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the tissue |
RCF | relative centrifugal force=what a centrifuge measures in "G" or gravitational units; the force exerted from the center out... |
RhoGam | RhO gamma Globulin= given to women of childbearing age after delivery or abortion if they are Rh-, to prevent them from forming Rh antibodies that might harm future pregnancies |
RT | Room Temperature |
Type & Xmatch | Type and Crossmatch=the act of determine the ABO group and Rh type of a patient , and finding units of blood that are compatible |
UA | Urinalysis |
UTI | Urinary tract infection |
WBC | White blood cells=the cellular component of blood that fights infection |