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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Abnormal protein measurement in blood
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?
What are some examples of acellular components of blood and What are their functions?
What is dysproteinemia?
When would you use Cryopercipitate on your patient?

2. Eccentric nucleus with low N:C ratio - very clear perinuclear halo; only seen in birds and reptiles
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
What does VWF test evaluate?
What are some side effects to Oxyglobin? Are these side effects anything to worry about? why?

3. Ad: speedy collection - no exchange of glass into blood; dis: cell trauma d/t vacuum - breakable - glass activates coagulation factors - component separation more difficult
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
Secondary hemostasis requires ___ _____ ____ and _______ in a cascade of conversion of inactive factors
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?

4. Primary Hemostasis- plt plug - Secondary Hemostasis- fibrin clot - Fibrinolysis- breakdown of clot
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?
What are the 3 components of hemostasis
What are the 2 types of absolute polycythemia?
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin

5. Liver Failure - DIC
Why are monocyte numbers low in WBC differentials?
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
What is the most common neoplasia of lymph nodes?
What are 2 examples of acquired fibrinolysis defects

6. Stomatocyte
RBC that has a pale colored mouth area and only seen in dogs with hereditary chondrodystrophy (dwarfish)
What do the granules of a mast cell contain
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal RBC count?
What are the three abnormal colors you would see on a plasma evaluation?

7. Vacuoles in cytoplasm with foaminess- can see pits on 100x
Give 2 examples of clot errors in collection of CBC/LTT
What are the blood types of a cat?
MCHC
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?

8. Jugular- 20ga - cephalic- 22ga - recurrent tarsal/lateral saphenous- 25ga direct draw from patient
List 3 venipuncture sites in the dog and the needle size for each
What are the three abnormal colors you would see on a plasma evaluation?
What does the FDP test detect?
What are the stages of lymphoid tumors?

9. Myelocyte; yes
What would be 2 causes of artifact hypoproteinemia?
What does BMBT evaluate
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
What is the name of the granulocyte stage that has secondary granules? are they committed?

10. Heparin which prevents conversion of prothrombin to thrombin
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
What type of anticoagulant is in a green top tube
The lymphocyte is the most dominant WBC in...
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?

11. Hyperchromic
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?
The lymphocyte is the most dominant WBC in...
During secondary hemostasis each coagulation factor is converted to its active form by what?
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?

12. Around the heart and spinal cord seen in dairy cattle
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?
What are the 2 main proteins?
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?

13. Increase production: inflammation - IMDz
Adhesion requires what factor?
What is the mech of absolute hyperproteinemia and an example
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?
During the production of coagulation factors the liver can make all factors except part of factor ___ and _____

14. Not mixing the sample
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
What are toxic azurophilic granules? What can cause these?
What is the biggest error in hematology?
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?

15. Adequate size and WBC distribution
What does PTT and PT evaluate?
A platelet is a cytoplasmic fragment of a __________
What is the only cell that has the ability to recirculate? How do they do this?
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?

16. Immature - cleft or bleb; reactive - granular cytoplasm - plasma cell - mott cell
Explain the Diff Quick staining technique for avian hematology
What is another name for a blister cell?
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
What are the 2 nuclear changes in a lymphocyte? What is the 4 cytoplasmic changes?

17. Oval with raisin-like nucleus
What is the procedure for doing a retic count?
What does a mature avian RBC look like
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________

18. High - because they lose the ability to retain water
Where is the storage pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
In a geriatric patient is TP high or low?
What is the specific use for Blue Ring Hematocrit?
These RBCs have more surface area than contents. Similar to a half full zip lock bag or look like they have wrinkles.

19. Thrombopathias and vascular
Lucy the dog has a MCV of 75 - What term will I use for evaluation?
An example of an inherited primary hemostasis defect (vascular part) is........
What is this the test of choice for?
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?

20. Macrophages
What are toxic azurophilic granules? What can cause these?
What is a serum separator tube?
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?

21. Actually fibrinogen increases before WBCs increase
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________
Where is the proliferating or dividing pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?

22. Microcytic
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?
Where are immunoglobins made?
What are some disadvantages of Oxyglobin?
Briefly describe what happens during adhesion

23. Dark - dense segmented nucleus
What do you look for to identify a neutrophil?
What are 2 causes of roughened endothelium?
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...
When would you use Cryopercipitate on your patient?

24. Postprandial (patient just ate) - hypothyroid - diabetes mellitus
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?
What infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
What are the 2 categories of errors in collection of CBC/LTT?
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?

25. Aggregate
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
What color is a 18ga needle?
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?

26. Secondary hemostasis specifically intrinsic and common pathways
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?
Fibrinogen > __________
What does ACT evaluate?

27. Liver is #1 lymphoid tissue is #2
Where does protein originate from?
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
What are the 2 categories of errors in collection of CBC/LTT?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?

28. Use simplate device to make an incision into upper lip - start timer - using filter paper dab site (dont wipe) every 10 seconds until bleeding stops. Normal range: 1-3min in dogs and cats
What is the method for BMBT?
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?

29. Hemoproteus spp
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus
What are the 4 names that can be given to the size of larger than normal platelets?
What are the two types of transfusion reactions? Which one is a rejection of RBC antigens?

30. Cytauxzoon sp.
What does hemosiderin look like?
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.
1/4 of FeLV positive cats will develop...
What are 3 effects of EPO?

31. VWB
Where should you place your BTT sample if it is going to be looked at in <6 hours? in >6 hours?
An example of and inherited platelet function defect is ________ where platelets fail to adhere to subendothelial collagen
Endothelium and platelets produce What two factors?
If I see unusually large RBCs what will I use? Unusually small RBCs?

32. Room temperature
What are 3 reasons we evaluate TP?
What color is a 25ga needle?
How can an animal lose 50% of their blood volume and still be ok?
What is the minimum temperature that you should warm the blood before administering it?

33. 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?
What is the side effect of glucocorticoids? Is EPO involved?
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?
It take ___ days to see a response to anemia in the peripheral blood

34. WBC distribution - platelet clumping - abnormal cells - and microfilaria
What does PTT and PT evaluate?
When looking at the feathered edge on 10x What are two things you would be looking for?
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?

35. Obs = # retics/1000 x 100 COR = (Pt PCV/ Average PCV) x observed % Abs = # retics/1000 x RBC ct
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?
What is the Observed Retic Count Formula? Corrected Retic Count? Absolute Retic Count?
Where does protein originate from?
what WBC do mast cells resemble

36. 2 syringe technique and multiple vacutainer tube technique
What is the function of immunglobins?
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?

37. Vasculitis - collagen deficiency - extensive vascular injury
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
Name the 2 agranulocytes
What are 3 examples of acquired primary hemostasis defects (vascular part)
List at least 5 differences between avian and mammalian hematology

38. Low - it takes 6-12 months to build up
At birth is TP high or low
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
What color is a 25ga needle?
What does the FDP test detect?

39. Basophils
what WBC do mast cells resemble
What does VWF test evaluate?
What is the specific use for LTT?
What is in each jar in the Wright's stain and What is the procedure of each jar?

40. BM aspirate or BM core biopsy
What are the types of BM sample?
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird

41. Leukocytozoon spp
What avian parasite am i describing... in RBC and WBC - round to elongated with gross host cell distortion and flattening of host nucleus along on side of cell
What is the specific gravity of distilled water?
How long is fresh frozen plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient?
Which test is best to diagnose warfarin poisoning?

42. w/o anemia
What do you look for to identify a basophil
Endothelium and platelets produce What two factors?
EPO is involved with hypoxia...
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus

43. Liver
If you have a dog come in ADR and you need to draw blood with vacutainer - what order should you fill your tubes?
If I see unusually large RBCs what will I use? Unusually small RBCs?
Fibrinolysis is...
FDPs are normally cleared by what?

44. 60-70 -30-36
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
What is the mechanism of relative polycythemia and What is an example?
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?
Secondary hemostasis requires ___ _____ ____ and _______ in a cascade of conversion of inactive factors

45. Heterophil
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds
If I see unusually large RBCs what will I use? Unusually small RBCs?
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What is a serum separator tube?

46. oval
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus
What does a RTT contain?
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds
What is fibrinolysis?

47. blood
Platelets are always irrregular in shape - but what would an abnormally shaped platelet look like?
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?

48. Bleed them out
1/4 of FeLV positive cats will develop...
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
What is the tx for RBC tumor
What does a RTT contain?

49. Thrombocytes
What are the requirements for a canine blood donor?
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________
These are small fragments of a RBC. Can be seen in a patient with DIC - iron deficiency or heartworms.
At birth is TP high or low

50. Partial thromboplastin time - prothrombin time - VWF test - thrombin time - FDPs
What some send out tests that could be run for bleeding disorders?
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 in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
1/4 of FeLV positive cats will develop...