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4. Always ask: Always ask and rectify your concerns. Path: p Words:86 QUESTION3 You are a phlebotomist for a community laboratory, and you report for work on an extremely busy day. You travel daily from the lab where you work, to the hospital to draw blood, and then back to the lab. You have finished drawing blood at the hospital and are on your way back to the lab when you get a cell phone call that the hospital needs a complete blood count (CBC) and electrolytes drawn STAT for a patient that has just come into the emergency room (ER) 1. Would you turn around and go back to the ER or drop off your current blood samples and then go back to the ER? Explain your answer. (2 points) 2. What does the above question have to do with preventing medical malpractice lawsuits? (2 points) Words:0 Path: p bmit. Click Save All Answers to save all answers it to save an

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1, I will drop off the current blood sample and go to the ER. Because sample tubes should not be moved more during transport to reduce the risk of cell hemolysis.
2, Lab test is an integral part of medical diagnosis processing. medical malpractice occurs when the health care professional made negligence with inappropriate treatment and inappropriate standard of care. As a phlebotomist they have to protect the specimens during shipping...Inappropriate temperature exposure and jarring can cause hemolysis in transit...Phlebotomist has to hand over the previous sample first to avoid a medical malpractice lawsuit. if he goes back to an emergency for urgent blood sample withdrawal again it causes hemolysis and makes the wrong diagnosis for the patient.