Study Materials
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Collection Procedures
The largest domain on the CPT exam: how a venipuncture runs from requisition to bandage, which tube is filled in which order and why, and how dermal puncture differs. Nearly every fact here traces back to the CLSI venous and capillary collection standards.
Safety and Compliance
The rules that keep you, the patient, and the specimen out of trouble: the federal bloodborne pathogens standard, personal protective equipment, sharps and exposure response, isolation precautions, and the privacy and quality regulations every lab operates under.
Specimen Handling and Processing
What happens to the tube between the patient's arm and the analyzer decides whether the result is usable. This chapter covers labeling, mixing, transport conditions, time limits, centrifugation, and the defects that force a lab to reject a specimen.
Patient Preparation and Care
Everything that happens before the needle and everything that can go wrong during the draw: identifying the right patient, confirming test preparation, obtaining consent, managing fear, and responding to complications from fainting to nerve injury.
Anatomy, Physiology, and Terminology
The background knowledge that makes the rest of the exam make sense: how blood moves, what distinguishes arterial from venous and capillary blood, the vein map of the antecubital fossa, which tube each common test needs, and the word parts and abbreviations used on every requisition.
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