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Exam 1

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3 factors that contribute to the cost of automation   maintenance, personnel training, analyzer cost  
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lab characteristics used to justify the cost of automation   lab size, workflow, specimen volume, safety advantages  
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Ordering automation   electronic orders, standing orders, generated bar-codes with important patient info  
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Transportation automation   P-tube, track systems  
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Receiving automation   LIS  
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Reporting results automation   can go directly into clinician electronically, results can go to medical records to be apart of patients chart  
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Maintenance of quality across all aspects of the testing process   quality assurance  
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purpose of quality assurance   to evaluate the system and prevent errors  
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Which phase of testing accounts for the most laboratory error and why   Pre-analytical because there's less automation for this and we see an increase with human error  
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What is the purpose of quality control material   provides us with insight on how the analyzers are functioning and the accuracy of the test results  
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why liquid QC over lyophilized   more stable and decreases pipetting errors during reconstitution  
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analyzed by the manufacturer so the concentration of the analyses they contain is known   assayed QC  
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concentration of the analyses is unknown and must be determined by the lab   unassayed QC  
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When is it necessary to repeat QC material   maintenance is done, something is suspected to be wrong, reagent lot change, major component replacement  
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A sudden change due to an analyzer malfunction   shift  
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a gradual change due to reagent deterioration   drift  
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What steps do you need to take in evaluating a failed QC run   rerun once, ask questions, contact service technician if problem is not resolved  
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concentration of a substance is proportional to the amount of light absorbed   beers law  
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measures the intensity of light at selected wavelength   absorbance spectrophotometry  
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two factors that quantitative measurement using absorbance spectrophotometry depend on   color, intensity of the color  
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examples of monochromator in modern technology   filters, prism, grating  
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two types of photoelectric cells   barrier layer cell, photomultiplier tubes  
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measure light reflected from the surface of a colorimetric reaction   reflectance spectrophotometry  
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Name the layers in dry-slide technology   spreading, scavenger, reagent, indicator, support layer, spectrophotometer  
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sample is distributed evenly   spreading layer  
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filters out substances that could interfere with results   scavenger layer  
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reagent reacts with sample   reagent layer  
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reacted sample collects for spectral analysis   indicator layer  
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optical interface   support  
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measures the absorption of light by an element in its ground state   atomic absorption spectrometry  
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example of a lab test performed using atomic absorption spectrometry   determining blood lead levels  
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Valence electrons from some substances are able to absorb light energy, exciting the electron, electron returns to ground state and gives up energy as a photon of light which results in a fluorescence emission   fluorometry  
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compounds that can re-emit light upon excitation; produces color in testing   fluorochromes/fluorophores  
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commonly used fluorescent dye in the lab   fluorescein isothiocyanate (green)  
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two ways light scatter is measured   turbidimetry, nephelometry  
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Which form of light scatter is more sensitive   nephelometry because more light is scattered than transmitted  
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the measurement of the reduction of light transmitted through a solution caused by particle formation   turbidimetry  
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test done by turbidimetry   PT/INR; clot formation  
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the measurement of scattered light by a particulate solution   nephelometry  
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lab test performed by nephelometry   antibody-antigen reactions (rheumatoid factor)  
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impedance-based technology that is used to analyze cells   flow cytometry  
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Four main component of a flow cell cytometer   cells, illumination, fluidics, detectors/electronics  
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sample cell suspension is injected into the center of a rapidly flowing stream to pass the sample through the analysis point one at a time   hydrodynamic focusing  
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what is forward scatter   lenses collect light and focus it on a photodiode and the light is converted to electrical current; measures cell size  
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what is side scatter   uses wavelength-specific mirrors and filters to transmit light specific to the wavelength of the dye that is used; measures cell complexity  
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lab test performed by flow cytometry   immunophenotyping cells  
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radiation detector that counts radioactive labels   scintillation counter  
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disadvantages of RIA   lot of radioactive waste, short shelf life of radioactive isotopes  
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what replaced RIA   Chemiluminescence  
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what are immunoassays used to measure   antibody-antigen reactions  
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liquid phase and require no wash step, competitive format   homogenous assay  
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has solid phase, requires a wash step and can be competitive or non   heterogenous assay  
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3 categories of immunoassay labels   enzymes, fluorogens, chemiluminescent  
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What are the two main classifications of radiation   ionizing and non  
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examples of ionizing radiation   microwave and radio  
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examples of non-ionizing radiation   x-rays and gamma  
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difference btwn electromagnetic radiation and particulate radiation   electromagnetic carries no charge while particulate are charged particles (alpha and beta)  
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what makes an atom radioactive   unbalanced protons and neutrons = unstable nucleus  
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Three types of decay an atom can undergo   alpha, beta, gamma  
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unstable nucleus gives up 2 protons and 2 neutrons which leads to an atomic mass and number change   alpha  
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ejects and electron, converting a neutron to a proton which leads to an atomic number change but the same mass   beta  
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what would stop alpha radiation   paper  
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what would stop beta radiation   block of wood  
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what would stop gamma radiation   lead  
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what type of radiation is emitted from a patient undergoing testing in nuclear medicine   gamma  
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four examples of how we use radiation in the clinical lab   radioimmunoassays, x-rays, MRI, CT  
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what assay is used in the echo analyzer   capture assay  
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