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Mrs. Smith needs to take her antibiotic b.i.d. What does b.i.d. stand for?

Facility policy states that no more than 5% of a patient’s blood may be drawn in 30 days.  What is the maximum amount of blood than can be drawn from a 9 pound infant in a month?

Which set of adaptations is appropriate when drawing blood from a pediatric patient?

Which finger(s) are best to perform capillary sticks?

The term axillary means

What process occurs in capillary beds?

After centrifuging a specimen that does not have a separator gel, when should the liquid portion of the specimen be removed from the solid portion?

Which of these blood vessels carries deoxygenated blood from the legs to the heart?

If a whole blood specimen is required for a diagnostic test, it should be collected in a tube that

When a blood specimen is allowed to clot in a collection tube and is then centrifuged, the resulting liquid portion is called