Specimen Processing

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Across
  1. 2. Done when a CBC tube is clotted, for example
  2. 5. A specimen that needs to be used by multiple departments
  3. 7. The liquid portion of blood after clotting and spinning
  4. 10. Machine used to separate blood by spinning fast
  5. 13. For micro plates, or maybe chicken eggs?
  6. 14. Serum poured over into a second tube
  7. 15. Test which should be drawn without a tourniquet
  8. 16. Uses K2 EDTA as anticoagulant
  9. 19. Used to find veins but don't keep it on for too long
  10. 20. Processes the specimens
  11. 21. Essential part of standard precautions
  12. 23. Run these now!
  13. 24. Index for lab tests
  14. 25. For example: Z04.9, N39.0
  15. 27. This test must be put on ice immediately after draw and spun asap
  16. 28. Computer program where patient charting is done
Down
  1. 1. The lab's part of Cottage One
  2. 3. Printed form that doctors use for ordering
  3. 4. Huge corporate send-out lab
  4. 6. Licensed to draw blood
  5. 8. Beeps when reading barcodes
  6. 9. Not juts for doctors to wear
  7. 11. Holds your tubes
  8. 12. What to order when there's no order
  9. 17. Automated line
  10. 18. Number assigned to each patient
  11. 22. Put across from your tube in the centrifuge, or used to measure mass
  12. 26. Respiratory sample that might gross you out