Processing Specimens Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. a method of transportation and distribution of laboratory test results and other documents.
  2. 7. injection of blood cells or blood substitutes to increase athletic endurance by boosting the boosting the bloodstreams oxygen carrying capacity.
  3. 9. (BAC)The concentration of alcohol in a persons bloodstream
  4. 10. to divide specimens into smaller portions.
  5. 12. a chemical substance that reacts in specific predictable way to detect or synthesize other substances in chemical reactions.
  6. 13. an evaluation of urine by physical, chemical, and microscopic testing methods.
  7. 14. a laboratory that is outside a patient care facility and can perform many more types of testing than are available at the average hospital's lab.
  8. 16. a device that spins lab specimens at high speeds to separate the samples into their components for testing purposes.
  9. 17. a method of urinalysis involving the use of plastic strips with pads containing a substance that causes a specific chemical reaction.
  10. 19. at or near the patient or at the patients bedside
Down
  1. 2. A medication for patients who have had chemotherapy to treat cancer, also used illicitly by some athletes to boost production of red cells and thus increase endurance.
  2. 3. An abnormal reaction to or a change resulting from exposure to light.
  3. 4. a lab test result outside of the expected reference range that can be life threatening.
  4. 5. a solution(such as water or saline) that reduces the concentration of a specimen.
  5. 6. sample specimens with known laboratory values, used prior to processing a patients sample.
  6. 8. sample of ilegal value in a civil or criminal case.
  7. 11. The chronilogical documentation (paper trail) showing m=the acquisition custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of specimens that provide evidence.
  8. 15. aka biohazard any biological risk to organisms
  9. 18. sensitive to high temps