You are performing a serum glucose on a patient in SICU (Surgical Intensive Care Unit). The patient’s glucose is 2,467 mg/dL which is a stupid high value because it is inconsistent with life. After making the appropriate dilutions, and assaying in duplicate to confirm the value, the result is the same. What is the most common cause of this problem?

You arrive late to a biological seminar. However, just as you enter the room, you hear the speaker referring to the “amino end” and the “carboxyl end” of a macromolecule. Immediately, you know that they are talking about a

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark”, where is Georgiana’s birthmark?

Now you are performing gravimetric 24-hour fecal fat assays. Someone just asked you if the stool specimens need any kind of a preservative added to them and if they need to be stored at room temperature or in the refrigerator prior to analysis. What section of the SOP (Procedure Manual) would tell you this information?

In “Rip Van Winkle,” Rip was amazed at the men playing nine pins because                                                                                

A monosaccharide that plays an important role in energy storage is a six-carbon sugar called

Hypervolemia (excess intravascular fluid volume) has what impact on cardiac performance?

Your co-worker, Jayson Clarke, has just performed a phlebotomy on a patient. He was trying to completely fill a 4.5 mL EDTA Vacutainer tube (purple top) with blood. He was only able to fill the tube 1/3 the way with blood and wants to know if this sample is acceptable for a magnesium assay. Which is the most correct answer to tell him?

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” when does the poem take place?

Your lab’s MSDS library mainly tells you what?