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- 3. dangers related to exposure to toxic, unstable, explosive, or flammable substances
- 4. written laboratory orders indicating the tests that should be performed
- 5. tests that provide simple, virtually error free results and no harm to the patient if incorrectly performed and they require a minimal amount of judgment and interpretation
- 7. Health and Human Services
- 9. long-lasting, debilitating conditions
- 11. Safety Data Sheets (formerly known as material safety data sheets or MSDS)
- 12. Other potentially infectious materials, such as blood and body fluids
- 13. bloodborne virus that attacks the liver and is very likely to reach the chronic stage later in life
- 15. highly contagious virus that enters the body through the gastrointestinal tract and attacks the liver
- 19. dangers related to exposure to biological substances such as infectious or bloodborne pathogens
- 21. Personal protective equipment
- 24. transmitting a pathogen from one individual to another
- 26. Point-of-Care testing
- 27. through the skin
- 28. human immunodeficiency virus
- 29. the means by which an infectious agent or pathogen is transported from an infected individual to another person by indirect or direct contact
- 30. CDC recommendations for infection control within health care facilities to prevent transmission of disease through contact with blood, body fluids, or OPIMs
- 33. a test result far from the reference range indicating a threat to a patient's health
- 34. outpatient facility versus hospital or bedridden setting
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- 1. dangers related to electricity, fire, weather emergencies, bomb threats, and accidental injuries
- 2. disease-causing microorganisms
- 6. results of laboratory tests that have been ordered
- 8. steady state of internal chemical and physical balance
- 10. assumption that blood or other potentially infectious material from any patient or test kit could be infectious for HIV, HBV, or other blood borne pathogens
- 14. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act
- 16. the numerical range of analyte values with which the general population will consistently show similar results 95% of the time
- 17. a series of tests associated with a particular organ or disease
- 18. an area that has been in contact with infectious materials or surfaces where infectious organisms may reside
- 20. most prevalent bloodborne virus that enters body via parental exposure or high-risk sexual activity that attacks the liver: an individual can build a protective resistance against this virus by prior immunization or vaccination
- 22. rigorous standard of policies and procedures developed by OSHA to protect employees who work in occupations where they are at risk of exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials
- 23. Physician's Office Laboratory
- 25. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 27. Post-exposure prophylaxis; preventative treatment after exposure to blood or other OPIMs
- 31. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- 32. the substance being tested, such as glucose or cholesterol in a blood specimen