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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. clump together
Thrombocytes tend to...
What is an example of loss of RBC
What are some causes of primary absolute polycythemia?
What is the specific use for LTT?

2. Not making blood film ASAP - glucocorticoids - inherited
What 3 anticoagulants contain preservatives and What are their shelf lives?
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.
FDPs are normally cleared by what?

3. 50:50%; 0-5%; rare
What type of anticoagulant is in a green top tube
What is the most important trait of blood donation?
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?

4. Cow; dusty purple grey
What is the normal range of a PCV for a dog? a cat?
Define absolute
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?
When noting the number of platelets - What are the ranges and names?

5. NRBC
What does erythrophagocytosis look like?
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?

6. Prothrombin time
What are the examples for the cellular components of blood and What are their functions?
Which test is best to diagnose warfarin poisoning?
What is fibrinolysis?
What does a mature avian RBC look like

7. Lung deficit - asthma - altitude - PDA
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
What is the method for ACT?
What is the specific use for LTT?

8. DIC - Warfarin toxication; within 6 hours; platelets and clotting factors
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?
What does erythrophagocytosis look like?
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?
Endothelium and platelets produce What two factors?

9. Acanthocytes
These cells have irregular spicules that are uneven in size and distribution. Seen in dogs with liver disease.
All components necessary for intrinsic pathway are...
What does the FDP test detect?
What shape is the nucleus in a lymphocyte? a monocyte?

10. Hemonate for microdrips and admin set with filter for macrodrips
list 3 venipuncture sites in a bird and the needle size for each
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?
What tube is used for all the sent our tests except FDPs?
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?

11. Monolayer on 40x
What is the specific use for BTT?
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?

12. RBC morphology - WBC morphology - and platelets
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
What are the 2 main proteins?

13. Dif Quick - DipStat - Wright's stain
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
If you have a dog come in ADR and you need to draw blood with vacutainer - what order should you fill your tubes?

14. True deviation in the amount
Platelets are always irrregular in shape - but what would an abnormally shaped platelet look like?
In the control reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
Define absolute
What is dysproteinemia?

15. Marrow failure and tumor staging
What is the mechanism of relative polycythemia and What is an example?
What are the indications for BM sampling
Regarding the Absolute Retic Count.....< 60 -000 = ___________ > 60 -000 = ___________
What does the FDP test detect?

16. Non- Regenerative -Regenerative
Regarding the Absolute Retic Count.....< 60 -000 = ___________ > 60 -000 = ___________
During gestation is TP high or low?
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?
What happens during aggregation

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18. Leptocyte
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
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?
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus

19. 2 years at room temperature
What color is a 20ga needle?
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?

20. > 10lb - PCV > 30-35% - current on vx - only indoor cat
What are the requirements for a cat to be a donor?
Platelet morphology includes...
What does the FDP test detect?
Adhesion requires what factor?

21. Grey
What color is a 16ga needle?
list 3 venipuncture sites in a bird and the needle size for each
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.
Why is it good to know what blood components that your patient needs?

22. Saline wash
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 test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?
An example of acquired primary hemostasis defects (platelet plug part) is...

23. Liver and lymphoid tissue
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?
Which species is the only species in which we evaluate the central pallor?
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?
Where are immunoglobins made?

24. Poikilocytosis
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?
Give 2 examples of clot errors in collection of CBC/LTT

25. It does not contain an anticoagulant ;) so the blood will clot.
Name the 2 agranulocytes
blood loss can be acute or chronic - What are some causes for acute? chronic?
What is the biggest error in hematology?
What does a RTT contain?

26. Shaking - too small a needle with too much neg. back pressure - intravascular hemolysis
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?
What are some side effects to Oxyglobin? Are these side effects anything to worry about? why?
What are the requirements for a cat to be a donor?

27. defective maturation series
What is the definition of PCV?
T/F myelodysplasia and erythodysplasia have...
What can happen if you use Na Citrate in high volumes when storing donor blood?
What is the most common neoplasia of lymph nodes?

28. Membrane bound package of chemicals
In What animals would you use the syringe technique?
granule
Microsytosis is often seen in...
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?

29. To avoid introduction of tissue thromboplastin in your sample and clotting
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.
Why would we want an atraumatic venipuncture?
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?

30. Rouleaux or agglutination
An example of acquired primary hemostasis defects (platelet plug part) is...
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?
Fibrinogen measurment makes up what percent of the TP?
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?

31. BLV - bovine leukemia virus
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?
What are some examples of nonimmunologic?
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?
Fibrinolysis is...

32. 2 gtts donor plasma and 2 gtts recipient RBC suspension
What is the defining cell of inflammation?
In the minor reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?

33. For smaller animals with small volumes collected
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds
In What animals would you use the syringe technique?
which animal would you use a 16ga needle in? How long is the needle?
What does PTT and PT evaluate?

34. Mix equal parts of EDTA whole blood and NMB -Incubate 10-20 min -Make Blood Film -View on 100x -Count 1000 RBC - tally retics
Adhesion requires what factor?
In the major reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
What is the procedure for doing a retic count?
If an animal is 5-6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?

35. PO - IV - SQ - IP - IO
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in horses?
What are some causes of BM failure
What are the routes of fluid replacement?
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________

36. Cytauxzoon sp.
List the two types of retics along with there morphological and physiological characteristics
What are some causes of BM failure
All components necessary for intrinsic pathway are...
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.

37. .98mls to .02mls
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
Platelets are always irrregular in shape - but what would an abnormally shaped platelet look like?
A vascular spasm is immediate...
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?

38. RBC tumor - RBC replicating uncontrollably. EPO is not involved.
What are the requirements for a canine blood donor?
What are some causes of primary absolute polycythemia?
What is the specific gravity of distilled water?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?

39. Metamyelocyte
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
What is the specific use for GreenTT?
What are 3 reasons we evaluate TP?
What is the name of the granulocyte stage that has secondary granules? are they committed?

40. Diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia - dohle bodies - cytoplasmic vacuolization - toxic azurophilic granules
What are the 4 presentations of toxic neutrophils
Which species has uniform small round refractile eosinophil granules?
list 3 venipuncture sites in a bird and the needle size for each
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?

41. Microcytic
Define absolute
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?
What is the most important trait of blood donation?
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?

42. Hemoproteus spp
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?
The lymphocyte is the most dominant WBC in...
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in horses?

43. Anterior vena cava- 16ga 3-3.5 inches - ear vein- 21ga butterfly
list 2 venipuncture sites in the pig and the needle size for each
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?
Does a hemolysis error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
This cell looks like a punched out cell.

44. G/ld - rounded to the nearest 0.2
What are the stages of lymphoid tumors?
What is TP measured in?
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?

45. Liver
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?
FDPs are normally cleared by what?
What are the 4 presentations of toxic neutrophils
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?

46. Nuclear and cytoplasmic
What are the 2 morphologic changes of WBCs?
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________
What is the stimulus for RBC production?
For what cell do we have a 5 day supply in the marginating pool? What is their half-life? Turnover rate?

47. (PCV x 10)/RBC
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
MCV
During fibrinolysis unbound plasmin in inactivated and bound plasmin hydrolyzes fibrin producing ______
What are the routes of fluid replacement?

48. Peripheral Blood - Bone Marrow
What is the mech. of relative hypoproteinemia and an exampl?
What happens during aggregation
What color is a 20ga needle?
Mature RBCs are normally seen in the ______ ______ and immature RBC are in the _______ _____.

49. Iatrogenic
What does the test thrombin time detect?
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?
What is the #1 cause of hypervolemia

50. Heparin which prevents conversion of prothrombin to thrombin
Where is the proliferating or dividing pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?
What are some causes of BM failure
What type of anticoagulant is in a green top tube