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A lavender-top tube contains:

An antiglycolytic agent:

An outpatient with a sore back wishes to stand during the procedure.

Specimens collected in the pink top tubes should be delivered to:

Specially formulated evacuated tube stoppers for collections of trace metal analyses are color-coded:

In the sequence of venipuncture events, which comes eigth?

What is the best thing to do when the vein can be felt, but not seen, even with the tourniquet on?

You arrive to draw a specimen on an inpatient.  The patient’s door is closed.  What do you do?

Assembling equipment prior to applying the tourniquet.

Anticoagulated tubes are inverted;