20 Little Known Facts About The Human Body

1. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
2. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
3. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
4. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
5. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
6. Every person has a unique tongue print.
7. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
8. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
9. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
10. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
11. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
12. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
13. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
14. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
15. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
16. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
17. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
18. Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
19. Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
20. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

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Hole's Anatomy and Physiology TEXTBOOK
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Practicum Testing and FINAL EXAM schedule!

EXAM schedule for Phlebotomy:

 

 

Exam 4 - (5/22) Tues., afterschooL OR (5/23) Wed., 8th period. OR  (5/24) Thurs., 1st period

   

LAB PRACTICAL EXAM  - (5/24) Thurs., 2nd period

 

 

FINAL EXAM  - ALL SENIORS (phlebotomy & pharmacy) -  May 29 (1st or 2nd)

 

If you need to see me, this will be my schedule

  Tuesday, afterschool

  Wednesday, 8 am & afterschool

  Thursday, 8 am & afterschool

  Friday, afterschool

 

NOTE:  I will not be at school on Friday morning - Spencer's graduation.

 

Phlebotomy STUDENTS

Please write or type/printout the Lab Practical Review.  Please turn in for a grade on Tuesday, 5/22.  This will be your QUIZ grade for the day.  The rest of the Lab Practical will be posted later today.  Keep up the good work...only a few more days left!  You are on your way to be RockStar Phlebotomists!

Lab Practical REVIEW

1.  Most efficient & economical ways of preventing a nosocomial infection is by:            ______________________

2.  How do you for patient identification?_______________________________________________________ 

________________________________________________________________________________________

3.  Describe correct procedure for washing hands before and after patient contact?

4.  What is used for routine cleaning of the venipunctures site. ________________________________
5.  Describe  proper position of the bevel of the needle once it is inserted into the vein is:

___________________________________________________________ 6.  List reason that may cause hemolysis of the specimen during collection of the  sample.

7.  List the steps for the performance of a routine venipunctures in the proper order?

 8.  List the correct order of the draw filling vacuum collection tubes?
9.  The most likely reason blood is NOT obtained from a clean stick on an elderly patient with 
                 apparently good veins is due to the: ________________________________________________
10.  Chemistry, hematology, and coagulation tests re-ordered on a three year old child with
                  good veins.  What is the best choice of equipment?  ___________________________________
11.  When drawing a multiple sample blood specimen, which of the following tests should be
                   collected first? blood culture, CBC, Electrolytes and glucose, coagulation studies
12.  Which analytes may be falsely increased due to the tourniquet being left  on too long?

________________________________________________________________

13.  During the performance of a venipunctures you accidentally stick yourself with the used     

                  needle.  What should bee done first? _______________________________________________

14.  MATCHING:

A.    Fills with blood

B.    Needle

C.    Holder

D.   Rubber sleeve

_____  Secures double-pointed needle
_____  Covers needle in between filling tubes
_____  Tube sealed with partial vacuum
_____  Used to collect multiple tubes of blood without blood leakage

  

15.  What color tube is used for the following tests. Blue

No additive   __________       Heparin   _______________               Sodium citrate  ___________

EDTA  __________                Sodium fluoride___________ 
Blood glucose which will be tested in 3 hours  _______________
STAT chemistries  _______________________                     Prothrombin time  ____________
Complete blood count  _______________      Blood typing (serum)  ________________

16.  How do  additives in blood collection tubes prevent blood from clotting?

__________________________________________________

17.  Which of the blood samples must be chilled immediately after collection?

__________________________________________________

18.  What is the FIRST vein of choice for the routine venipuncture?  ______________________

19.  Which of the tube stopper colors will result in a sample which contains clotting factors left in the fluid portion of the blood?  ___________________________________
20.  The microhematocrit tube is spun down.  When the tube is inspected there are three
                   layers that form.  What is contained in the “buffy coat” layer?  ______________________
21.  List potential sites for microcollection of blood samples?  ________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
22.  List the proper method for warming a heel prior to heel puncture is:

23.  The lancet used to perform capillary puncture on an infant’s heel must not exceed:  ____________
24.  Capillary punctures performed on the heel are generally performed to collect blood onto
                   filter paper for the Newborn Screening test.  LIST  the following proper 
                   procedure to follow for collection of the sample?
25.  If the alcohol is not allowed to dry before you collect blood from a capillary puncture, which
        of the following will occur?  

Phlebotomy Students - RESOURCES

ACC Phlebotomy has tons of helpful sites that can help you succeed in passing Phlebotomy!  You can do it!

http://www.austincc.edu/health/phb/resources.php