Clinical Chemistry

1. Brian’s favorite sports team
9. Analyzer used to rapidly run blood gases
10. How close a measurement is to the “true value”
11. If a result is out of range for the analyzer, you may need to perform a _____________or program the analyzer to do one
13. Special patient preparation done before collecting certain chemistry tests
14. Using the wrong ________________when collecting a specimen can lead to inaccurate results
15. If you notice a blood sample for chemistry testing is hemolyzed, it needs to be ______________
16. Testing run every day to ensure that testing is working properly
17. Term used to describe a very cloudy sample caused by high triglycerides
18. How “reproducible” a measurement is, ie how close repeat tests are to one another
22. Aside from blood, we can also run this type of specimen on the ABL analyzer
23. When transporting a specimen, the time to delivery and________________of the sample can affect patient results
24. Testing that can be done to detect/identify abnormalities is serum proteins

2. Used to measure the variation between data values
3. A formula that describes the relationship between concentration and absorbed light
4. Troponins need to be run off of a _____________sample
5. Another word for the “average” of a set of data
6. Term used to describe a specimen that is yellow/orange due to hemoglobin breakdown
7. Process that uses known concentrations of analyte to make sure the analyzer is measuring accurately
8. A group of tests all ran and reported out together
12. Blood, body fluids and __________are all types of specimens we can run on the architect
19. A machine used to separate plasma and serum from whole blood
20. Hepatitis testing needs to be run off of a ___________sample
21. lead testing is run from a ________tube
23. When evaluating QC values, we look for the values to be within ______standard deviations