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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Breakdown of a clot
What is fibrinolysis?
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?
Mature RBCs are normally seen in the ______ ______ and immature RBC are in the _______ _____.
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?

2. fresh
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better
What are some causes of BM failure
What are 2 causes of roughened endothelium?
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils

3. BM aspirate or BM core biopsy
What are the types of BM sample?
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?
What is the mechanism of relative polycythemia and What is an example?
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?

4. doesn't last that long
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils

5. Macrocytosis
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
What are the 3 mech. that cause absolute hypoproteinemia and give an example of each.
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?

6. Increase in RBCs
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?
What happens during aggregation
Define polycythemia
Which species has uniform small round refractile eosinophil granules?

7. Target cell
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
What are the blood types of a cat?
Judge the cells by the company that they keep is a...

8. Oxyglobin
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
Adhesion requires what factor?

9. But temporary
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?
A vascular spasm is immediate...
Judge the cells by the company that they keep is a...
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...

10. Mix equal parts of EDTA whole blood and NMB -Incubate 10-20 min -Make Blood Film -View on 100x -Count 1000 RBC - tally retics
What is in each jar in the Wright's stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
What is the procedure for doing a retic count?
What anticoagulant is in a LTT or PTT?
What does the test thrombin time detect?

11. Blood glucose
What is the defining cell of inflammation?
What are the 4 tests used to diagnose a plasma cell tumor?
What is the specific use for GreyTT?
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?

12. EDTA blood causes mycoplasma to fall off of RBCs making it harder to see.
Why might you not want to use EDTA blood to view Mycoplasma haemofelis?
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?
Why is it important that you use the appropriate thumb forceps when using wright's stain?
What is the normal range of a PCV for a dog? a cat?

13. Leptocyte
These RBCs have more surface area than contents. Similar to a half full zip lock bag or look like they have wrinkles.
Fibrinogen measurment makes up what percent of the TP?
What are toxic azurophilic granules? What can cause these?
A platelet is a cytoplasmic fragment of a __________

14. VWB
Mature RBCs are normally seen in the ______ ______ and immature RBC are in the _______ _____.
What is the specific use for LTT?
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?
What is the most common inherited bleeding disorder in animals

15. Primary Hemostasis - platelet plug -Stimulate Secondary Hemostasis - Fibrin clot -Secrete
What are the 3 functions of platelets
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.
What is an example of the fluid component of blood?
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?

16. Jugular- 18ga - tail vein- 20 or 18ga
List 2 venipuncture sites in the cow and the needle size for each
What 2 ways does a platelet form?
What is TP measured in?
What organ produces EPO?

17. Clot that breaks off from its origin place and lodges somewhere else
What color is a 20ga needle?
What organ produces EPO?
Explain the Diff Quick staining technique for avian hematology
Define thromboembolic disorder

18. No - but it is not ideal
Does a hemolysis error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
In a geriatric patient is TP high or low?
Lucy the dog has a MCV of 75 - What term will I use for evaluation?

19. Fibrin clot
What do monocytes do?
What does MCHC stand for and what will it tell us?
The final product of secondary hemostasis is a stable ____ _______ which seals larger blood vessel defects
what WBC do mast cells resemble

20. 50:50%; 0-5%; rare
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
EPO is involved with hypoxia...
What type of granules are in a promyelocyte? are they committed?
What are some symptoms of immediate hypersensitivity?

21. II - VII - IX - X
What do you look for to identify a monocyte?
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
What does a mature avian RBC look like
What are the Vitamin K depended factors

22. Adhesion - Aggregation - Secretion
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
chromatin
What is an example of increased destruction?
Platelet morphology includes...

23. Membrane bound package of chemicals
What is the mechanism of relative polycythemia and What is an example?
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
granule

24. Causes an increase in RBCs. NO EPO involved.
Why is the initial rate of administration slow?
MCHC
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation
What is the side effect of glucocorticoids? Is EPO involved?

25. Cow; dusty purple grey
What is the specific use for GreyTT?
List the two types of retics along with there morphological and physiological characteristics
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?

26. Roughened endothelium - protein C deficiency - and nephrotic syndrome
Why would we want an atraumatic venipuncture?
What is an example of increased destruction?
What is the Observed Retic Count Formula? Corrected Retic Count? Absolute Retic Count?
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?

27. Peripheral Blood - Bone Marrow
Platelets are always irrregular in shape - but what would an abnormally shaped platelet look like?
Mature RBCs are normally seen in the ______ ______ and immature RBC are in the _______ _____.
These are cells that are spiculated with even small projections over the entire cell.
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?

28. Red ring and black ring hematocrit tubes
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?
What is the specific use for LTT?
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?
Fibrinogen and WBCs...

29. VWB
An example of and inherited platelet function defect is ________ where platelets fail to adhere to subendothelial collagen
For the intrinsic pathway factors XII - XI - IX - VIII are activated by contact with collagen - endotoxin platelet products and other negatively charged substances. This process can be called ___ ___
What happens during aggregation
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size

30. Increase
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?

31. PO
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?
What are the 3 components of blood?
During secondary hemostasis each coagulation factor is converted to its active form by what?

32. Ameboid nucleus with lacy chromatin; +/- vacuoles; low N:C
Why are monocyte numbers low in WBC differentials?
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?
What do you look for to identify a monocyte?
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?

33. Black ring has a smaller diameter
What is the difference between a red ring and a black ring hematocrit tube?
These are small fragments of a RBC. Can be seen in a patient with DIC - iron deficiency or heartworms.
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?

34. (Hb x 100)/ PCV
Where should you place your BTT sample if it is going to be looked at in <6 hours? in >6 hours?
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
MCHC

35. Salivation - v/d - dyspnea - death
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
A vascular spasm is immediate...
What are some symptoms of immediate hypersensitivity?
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)

36. Spherocyte
Why would you give fluids IO or IP?
These cells are only seen in dogs with anemia and is pathognomonic with IMHA. Small round evenly stained.
What are the routes of fluid replacement?
What are the three abnormal colors you would see on a plasma evaluation?

37. Heparin - histamine - and eosinophilic chemotactic factor
MCH
What do the granules of a mast cell contain
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
What are some disadvantages of Oxyglobin?

38. Size - shape - color - and +/- inclusions
What is the specific use for BTT?
How long is fresh frozen plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient?
The RBC morphology includes...
MCV

39. PCV - TP - skin tugor - CRT
What does erythrophagocytosis look like?
MCV
blood loss can be acute or chronic - What are some causes for acute? chronic?
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?

40. Hypoxia w/o anemia and glucocorticoids
What is the minimum temperature that you should warm the blood before administering it?
What are the 2 causes of secondary absolute polycythemia?
During secretion What does PF3 do?
What tube is used for all the sent our tests except FDPs?

41. Myelodysplasia
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
What is a WBC tumor?
The end product of contact activation (or intrinsic pathway) is _______
In the minor reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?

42. Non regenerative - unexplained leukopenia - unexplained thrombocytopenia - presence of abnormal immature cells in peripheral blood
What are some causes of BM failure
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in horses?
Give 4 examples of hemolysis errors in collection of CBC/LTT

43. Primary Hemostasis- plt plug - Secondary Hemostasis- fibrin clot - Fibrinolysis- breakdown of clot
What are the indications for BM sampling
What are the 3 components of hemostasis
When would you use fresh whole blood transfusion on your patient? How many hours from time of collection for it to be considered fresh? What does it contain that makes it better?
Why would you give fluids IO or IP?

44. Green
What are the 2 morphologic changes of WBCs?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal platelet count?
What color is a 18ga needle?
What is the specific use for BTT?

45. Platelets stick to each other
What are the 2 main proteins?
What is a reactive lymph look like? What animals are they seen in?
What is the mech of absolute hyperproteinemia and an example
What happens during aggregation

46. 6 -000-17 -000/microliter; 5 -500-19 -500/microliter
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
What do you look for to identify a neutrophil?
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________
What is TP measured in?

47. Biliary stasis - carotenes - ev hemolysis
When looking at the feathered edge on 10x What are two things you would be looking for?
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
What are some causes of BM failure

48. Neutrophil - eosinophil - basophil
What are 2 types of RBC tumors?
What is the mech. of relative hypoproteinemia and an exampl?
Name the 3 granulocytes
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?

49. Hemonate for microdrips and admin set with filter for macrodrips
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
Which species is the only species in which we evaluate the central pallor?
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?

50. Cardiomyopathy in cats and HWD in dogs
1/4 of FeLV positive cats will develop...
What are the 3 mechanisms of anemia?
What are 2 causes of roughened endothelium?
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?