Lab tests
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vampramara on October 4, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 lab, diagnostic | _________ and _______ tests are tools to gain additional information about your patient. |
| false | By themselves these tools are therapeutic? |
| A thorough history and physical assessment. | What are these tools used with? |
| Confirm a diagnosis, and provide info about a patient status/ response to thearpy | When these all these tools are used together they can do two things, what are they? |
| tests in the primary care setting | Where do Point of care testings happen? |
| Patient and or family may gather specimen (accu-check) | What is home testing? an example would be what? |
| It is the work environment. | Where is an occupational site testing done at? |
| Usually only routine labs/tests here. More complex testing will require transfer to an acute care facility. | What kind of tests are done in nursing homes/ extended care facilities? |
| 1. Wellness screenings 2. Preventative services 3. Disease control 4. Counseling | What are the kinds of tests and services that you can get from Public health? |
| 1. avoid errors in collection 2. prepare patient/ family correctly 3. Provide a safe environment 4. use proper collection technique 5. report/interpret results correctly with proper documentation 6. Monitor for complications 7. Follow-up care as needed ( ex. Marsela) | What is my role in lab testing? |
| 1. Blood 2. Urine 3. Stool | What are the 3 different kinds of studies? |
| Normal values 5000-10000 | What are the normal values for leukocytes/ white blood cells? |
| Panic value: 1. less than 500 2. More than 30,000 3. Fights infections 4. Life span 13-20 days | What is the panic value of leukocytes/ white blood cells? and how long do these cells live for? |
| The count indicates severity of a disease. And the clinical implications are Leukemia, trauma/tissue injury, malignancy (cancer) toxins, acute hemorrhage and tissue necrosis. | What does the WBC count indicate? And what are the clinical implications when WBC count is over 1000,000? |
| Leukopenia is when you have counts less than 4,000 | What is leukopenia? |
| 1. viral infection 2. some bacterial infections 3. Bone marrow disorders (pernicious anemia) 4. Marrow occupying diseases (tumors) 5. Bone marrow depression 6. Iron deficiency anemia | What does leukopenia implicate? |
| 1. Neutrophils Nobody 2. Eosinophils Ever 3. Basophils Blames 4. Lymphocytes Lenore's 5. Monocytes Much | What are the 5 types of leukocytes? |
| The combat functions of neutrophils are Bacterial infections, and pyrogenic function, the function of eosinophils are allergic disorders, and parasitic infections, and the function for basophils is parasitic infection. | What are the combat functions of Neutrophils, Eosinophils, and Basophils? |
| for lymphocytes the function is viral infection i.e. mono, measles and for monocytes fights severe infections by the process of phagocytosis . | What are the functions for lymphocytes and monocytes? |
| cells encapsulates the foreign organism and destroys them by digestion. | What is phagocytosis? |
| They carry O2 to body tissues and remove CO2 from body tissues. | What do red blood cells do? |
| male: 4.5-5.5 female: 4-5 | What are the normal values for red blood cell count? |
| anemia | What does decreased red blood cell count result in? |
| A decrease in the number of circulating red blood cells due to blood loss, dietary insufficiency of iron intake. Inadequate intake of vitamins essential for the production of RBCs | What causes anemia? |
| It is increase in RBCs due to renal diseases, high altitudes, heart diseases, dehydration and polycythemia Vera. | What is erthocytosis? and why does it usually happen? |
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