Priority meaning "now" (Latin statim). Collect and send a STAT specimen without delay, ahead of routine work; a timed draw still keeps its ordered clock time.
Processing, question 1On her first day in a hospital lab, a phlebotomist hears a technologist call a result a "panic value." Which description fits that term?
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