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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Jar 1- wright's stain - set slide in jar for 1 min - jar 2 - buffer with 1 pipette of wright's stain- set slide in jar for 1 min - jar 3 - distille water - dip slide into jar 7-10 one sec dips

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2. Hemorrhage
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus
What are the 2 types of absolute polycythemia?
What is an example of loss of RBC

3. Thick blood b/c of excess proteins
What is hyperviscosity syndrome?
What are the classifications of lymphoid tumors?
Adhesion requires what factor?
What is the Observed Retic Count Formula? Corrected Retic Count? Absolute Retic Count?

4. 100
What are dohle bodies?
Secondary hemostasis requires ___ _____ ____ and _______ in a cascade of conversion of inactive factors
What is a WBC tumor?
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?

5. To avoid introduction of tissue thromboplastin in your sample and clotting
What does granular cytoplasm look like?
What is the specific use for LTT?
What are some symptoms of immediate hypersensitivity?
Why would we want an atraumatic venipuncture?

6. hereditary or acquired
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
What is an example of decreased production?
Defects of hemostasis can be..
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?

7. Reticulocyte count
Where should you place your BTT sample if it is going to be looked at in <6 hours? in >6 hours?
What does erythrophagocytosis look like?
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?

8. Stomatocyte
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?
This RBC inclusion looks like single very dark round spot on routine stain.
RBC that has a pale colored mouth area and only seen in dogs with hereditary chondrodystrophy (dwarfish)

9. Macrocytosis
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
What are some examples of soluble coagulation factors?? Cofactors??
What do you look for to identify a basophil
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?

10. Inconsistent - small - and irregular
What do the granules look like in a dog - horse - or cow basophil?
What is the baseline information that you should obtain on your patient while the transfusion is taking place?
When noting the number of platelets - What are the ranges and names?
How long is fresh frozen plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient?

11. Cat
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?
What is your end patient observation if the blood is not compatible?
What does the FDP test detect?

12. Cow
What does the FDP test detect?
Which species has uniform small round refractile eosinophil granules?
Why is it good to know what blood components that your patient needs?
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal platelet count?

13. Mean Corpuscular Hb Concentration - gives us the amount of Hb
What are the 2 nuclear changes in a lymphocyte? What is the 4 cytoplasmic changes?
Does a clot error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
How much and how often can a dog donate blood? a cat?
What does MCHC stand for and what will it tell us?

14. Basophils
what WBC do mast cells resemble
list 3 venipuncture sites in a bird and the needle size for each
What is the normal range of a RBC ct for a dog? a cat?
Microsytosis is often seen in...

15. NRBC
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?
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?
What does the test thrombin time detect?

16. Factor VIII and von Willibrand (vWB) factor by endothelial cells
What is this the test of choice for?
What two factors does the vascular part of primary hemostasis produce? And By what cells specifically?
Which test is best to diagnose warfarin poisoning?
What are the examples for the cellular components of blood and What are their functions?

17. Around the heart and spinal cord seen in dairy cattle
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?
why would we see an increase in eos on a BM aspirate with a patient with a mast cell tumor?
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?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal platelet count?

18. Trypanosoma sp
What are some causes of primary absolute polycythemia?
What is the specific use for GreyTT?
This can be seen in cattle - camel - sheep - goats - antelope - birds. Causes a veneral disease in horses.
Name the 3 granulocytes

19. Immediate hypersensitivity or delayed hypersensitivity
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?
If the neutrophil nuclear immatures are high end of normal - what would you call this? low end of normal?
What are some examples of immunologic?

20. Changes the color of mm or urine; no; because the mm and urine change to an opaque brown color Which is the color of the Oxyglobin
What type of anticoagulant is in a grey top tube?
What are the 4 tests used to diagnose a plasma cell tumor?
What are some side effects to Oxyglobin? Are these side effects anything to worry about? why?
What are the stages of lymphoid tumors?

21. Extrinsic - Intrinsic - common
What are the three pathways (limbs) of secondary hemostasis?
What is this the test of choice for?
An example of an inherited primary hemostasis defect (vascular part) is........
What is the defining cell of inflammation?

22. Macrophages
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?
The WBC morphology includes...
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
What are the 3 types of hematocrit tubes?

23. Lymphocyte - monocyte
What are 3 reasons we evaluate TP?
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
Name the 2 agranulocytes
What are the Vitamin K depended factors

24. Circulating pool; mature granulocytes; 6-8 hours
How long is platelet rich plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient? Do you refrigerate it? Why?
which animal would you use a 16ga needle in? How long is the needle?
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?
All cells can get...

25. Increase production: inflammation - IMDz
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.
What is the mech of absolute hyperproteinemia and an example
What are the 3 components of blood?
During secondary hemostasis each coagulation factor is converted to its active form by what?

26. Mycoplasma haemoncanis
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?
What infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
What shape is the nucleus in a lymphocyte? a monocyte?
This infectious agent looks like a cracked egg - seen in dogs - transmitted by the tick and causes anemia - emaciation and anorexia.

27. Primary hemostasis and plt number
What does plt count evaluate?
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.
why would we see an increase in eos on a BM aspirate with a patient with a mast cell tumor?
An example of an inherited primary hemostasis defect (vascular part) is........

28. Cardiomyopathy in cats and HWD in dogs
At birth is TP high or low
What are 2 causes of roughened endothelium?
What is the method for ACT?
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?

29. Something is mimicking what we are measuring
Which species has inconsistent eosinophil granules?
Define artifact
blood loss can be acute or chronic - What are some causes for acute? chronic?
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better

30. Megakaryocyte
What does BMBT evaluate
What are the 2 cytoplasmic changes in the monocyte? They individually or together are pathognomonic signs of what?
There are 2 types of lymphocytes What are their names? What are each used for?
A platelet is a cytoplasmic fragment of a __________

31. CBC
What is the defining cell of inflammation?
What do you look for to identify a neutrophil?
What are the 3 components of blood?
What is the specific use for LTT?

32. Vacuoles in cytoplasm with foaminess- can see pits on 100x
What is a WBC tumor?
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________
What color is a 16ga needle?
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?

33. fresh
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better
What two factors does the vascular part of primary hemostasis produce? And By what cells specifically?
What do you look for to identify a basophil
What is the mechanism of relative polycythemia and What is an example?

34. Hemorrhage- good for oxygen increasing and volume expansion
When looking at the feathered edge on 10x What are two things you would be looking for?
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
Briefly describe what happens during adhesion
What species never releases immature RBCs early?

35. PPSC differentiates into a rubriblast -Increase in hemoglobin synthesis -Early release of immature RBCs if needed
What is the function of albumin?
What is the specific use for BTT?
At birth is TP high or low
What are 3 effects of EPO?

36. Basophilic stippling
Which test is best to diagnose warfarin poisoning?
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.
If the neutrophil nuclear immatures are high end of normal - what would you call this? low end of normal?

37. Increase loss of RBCs - Increase destruction - and decrease production
Where is the storage pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What are the 3 components of hemostasis
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?
What are the 3 mechanisms of anemia?

38. A - B - AB - most cats are type A
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
What is the normal range of a PCV for a dog? a cat?
Platelet morphology includes...
What are the blood types of a cat?

39. ITP -DIC -Marrow problem (or kidney failure)
What are the 3 mech. that cause absolute hypoproteinemia and give an example of each.
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
What type of anticoagulant is in a grey top tube?

40. Hypoxia
What are the normal ranges for ACT?
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________
What is the stimulus for RBC production?

41. Anisocytosis
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?
If I see a variation in size of the RBCs What term will I use?
What are 3 reasons we evaluate TP?
Define thromboembolic disorder

42. Citrate intoxication- cardiac standstill - tremors - arrhythmias
What are the types of BM sample?
What can happen if you use Na Citrate in high volumes when storing donor blood?
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?

43. 1 year; bleeding disorders (hemophila) - gives passive immunity (Parvo)
What are the blood types of a cat?
How long is fresh frozen plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient?
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first
What would cause an artifact hyperproteinemia

44. Nulcear characteristics and cytoplasmic characteristics
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?
What is the function of protein?
The WBC morphology includes...
What are the routes of fluid replacement?

45. Coverslips
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________
What are the 3 functions of platelets
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?

46. It is the percent of a quantity of blood Which is made up of the red blood cells.
What is the definition of PCV?
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?
What color is a 16ga needle?
What is the minimum temperature that you should warm the blood before administering it?

47. Grey
What color is a 16ga needle?
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?
Hemophilias A and B are examples of ______ secondary hemostasis defects - but are not very common in the veterinary field
List 2 venipuncture sites in the cow and the needle size for each

48. Oxylate Which binds with calcium to prevent coagulation.
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?
What is the mech of relative hyperproteinemia and an example
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....
What type of anticoagulant is in a grey top tube?

49. Acid citrate dextrose (21 days) - citrate phosphate dextrose (21 days) - citrate phosphate dextrose with adenine (35 days)
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?
What are the 3 functions of platelets
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
What 3 anticoagulants contain preservatives and What are their shelf lives?

50. Blue-grey inclusion in the cytoplasm that is irregular in shape
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
What 3 anticoagulants contain preservatives and What are their shelf lives?
Barney the dog has a MCHC of 19 - What term will I use for evaluation?
What are dohle bodies?