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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Ghost cell
What is serum?
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?

2. 1.000
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
Why do we stage lymphoid tumors?
Where does protein originate from?
What is the specific gravity of distilled water?

3. 39-55 -30-36
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?
chromatin

4. Morbillivirus sp
What is the only cell that the production does not start with a PPSC? What cell does it start with? Where is this cell located in the body?
Platelet morphology includes...
This is seen with canine distemper virus and can be present on WBC - RBC - epithelial cells - would be in Plts but wont be able to see.
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better

5. Structural matrix - ground work for a cell - acts as transporters and carriers
Fibrinogen > __________
What is the function of protein?
What erythoroocyte antigens must a dog be lacking to be a universal donor?
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?

6. Canaries - lovebirds - and chickens
The lymphocyte is the most dominant WBC in...
What is the biggest error in hematology?
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?
Adhesion requires what factor?

7. Neutrophil; 6 hours; 2-2.5x
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus
What does a mature avian RBC look like
For what cell do we have a 5 day supply in the marginating pool? What is their half-life? Turnover rate?
What are the requirements for a canine blood donor?

8. Torocytes
This cell looks like a punched out cell.
Lucy the dog has a MCV of 75 - What term will I use for evaluation?
What is the normal range of a RBC ct for a dog? a cat?
MCHC

9. Uncontrolled growth arising from blood or blood forming organs
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?
What does erythrophagocytosis look like?
In What animals would you use the syringe technique?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?

10. Round to oval; ameboid
What are 2 types of RBC tumors?
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?
What is the function of immunglobins?
What shape is the nucleus in a lymphocyte? a monocyte?

11. Microcytic
What are some examples of acellular components of blood and What are their functions?
A platelet is a cytoplasmic fragment of a __________
Prothrombinase starts the _______ pathway Which is when the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways converge
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?

12. Nulcear characteristics and cytoplasmic characteristics
What are the 3 mech. that cause absolute hypoproteinemia and give an example of each.
During the production of coagulation factors the liver can make all factors except part of factor ___ and _____
The WBC morphology includes...
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?

13. Peripheral Blood - Bone Marrow
What shape is the nucleus in a lymphocyte? a monocyte?
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird
Mature RBCs are normally seen in the ______ ______ and immature RBC are in the _______ _____.
Fibrinolysis is...

14. To avoid introduction of tissue thromboplastin in your sample and clotting
Why would we want an atraumatic venipuncture?
Define polycythemia
An example of an inherited primary hemostasis defect (vascular part) is........
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?

15. Room temperature
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
What are 3 examples of acquired secondary hemostasis defects
What is the minimum temperature that you should warm the blood before administering it?
What does the test thrombin time detect?

16. Not mixing upon intro - slow draw - dinking around - traumatic venipuncture
Give 2 examples of clot errors in collection of CBC/LTT
In What animals would you use the syringe technique?
What is the mech of absolute hyperproteinemia and an example
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?

17. Dif Quick - DipStat - Wright's stain
If the neutrophil nuclear immatures are high end of normal - what would you call this? low end of normal?
What do you look for to identify a basophil
What are toxic azurophilic granules? What can cause these?
What are two stains used in staining blood films?

18. RTT with gel like substance used to separate cells form serum
RBC that has a pale colored mouth area and only seen in dogs with hereditary chondrodystrophy (dwarfish)
What are the examples for the cellular components of blood and What are their functions?
Fibrinolysis is...
What is a serum separator tube?

19. Large amounts to be effective - not long lasting - pricey
What are some disadvantages of Oxyglobin?
What are the 2 types of absolute polycythemia?
It take ___ days to see a response to anemia in the peripheral blood
All cells can get...

20. In the fridge - in the freezer
Where should you place your BTT sample if it is going to be looked at in <6 hours? in >6 hours?
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird

21. Cow
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a dog or cat? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What does PTT and PT evaluate?
Which species has uniform small round refractile eosinophil granules?
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.

22. Horse
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?
What is the tx for RBC tumor
What is the rule when testing for a plasma cell tumor?

23. Primary Hemostasis - platelet plug -Stimulate Secondary Hemostasis - Fibrin clot -Secrete
Where is the marginating pool located in the body? What are the granulocytes doing in this pool?
What are the 3 functions of platelets
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?
What would be 2 causes of artifact hypoproteinemia?

24. Trypanosoma sp
This can be seen in cattle - camel - sheep - goats - antelope - birds. Causes a veneral disease in horses.
What is the most common inherited bleeding disorder in animals
What 3 anticoagulants contain preservatives and What are their shelf lives?
What are some causes of BM failure

25. Size - shape - color - and +/- inclusions
The RBC morphology includes...
What are the 2 parts of primary hemostasis
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?
What does PTT and PT evaluate?

26. G/ld - rounded to the nearest 0.2
Why is it important that you use the appropriate thumb forceps when using wright's stain?
What does plt count evaluate?
What is the specific use for GreenTT?
What is TP measured in?

27. Low - it takes 6-12 months to build up
At birth is TP high or low
During secondary hemostasis each coagulation factor is converted to its active form by what?
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.
What is the stimulus for platelets

28. BLV - bovine leukemia virus
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
Defects of hemostasis can be..
An example of an inherited primary hemostasis defect (vascular part) is........
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?

29. Schistocytes
What granulocyte has a nucleus that is uniformly plump and spread out?
What are the 2 causes of secondary absolute polycythemia?
What are 3 effects of EPO?
These are small fragments of a RBC. Can be seen in a patient with DIC - iron deficiency or heartworms.

30. It is the percent of a quantity of blood Which is made up of the red blood cells.
Why would we want an atraumatic venipuncture?
What are the normal ranges for ACT?
What are 3 examples of acquired primary hemostasis defects (vascular part)
What is the definition of PCV?

31. Dark purple-magenta granular inclusions in the cytoplasm; endotoxins - toxicemia
What does MCHC stand for and what will it tell us?
What is the specific use for BTT?
What are some causes of BM failure
What are toxic azurophilic granules? What can cause these?

32. Cat
What is the #1 cause of hypervolemia
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?
A platelet is a cytoplasmic fragment of a __________

33. Increase loss: hemorrhage - decrease production: liver failure - decrease consumption: starvation
What are the 3 mech. that cause absolute hypoproteinemia and give an example of each.
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?

34. Pink
What is dysproteinemia?
What is the specific gravity of distilled water?
What does the FDP test detect?
What color is a 20ga needle?

35. Sepsis - disease transmission - allergic reactions to foreign proteins - circulatory overload - hypothermia
Give 4 examples of hemolysis errors in collection of CBC/LTT
List two ways the body gets rid of old RBCs
What are some examples of nonimmunologic?
What is the name of the granulocyte stage that has secondary granules? are they committed?

36. Green
What color is a 18ga needle?
What is the definition of PCV?
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?

37. Blood chemistries
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?
What test would be run using blood from a RTT?
Does a clot error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
What is in each jar in the Wright's stain and What is the procedure of each jar?

38. 6 -000-17 -000/microliter; 5 -500-19 -500/microliter
What is the advantage of a plastic bag technique? disadvantages?
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?

39. Dog
Which species has inconsistent eosinophil granules?
During secondary hemostasis What is formed to stabilize the primary hemostatic plug?
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
In the control reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?

40. A - B - AB - most cats are type A
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?
Define absolute
What are the blood types of a cat?
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

41. 15-45%; 55-85%; 0-5%; rare
What is the function of protein?
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
What do you look for to identify a basophil

42. defective maturation series
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
T/F myelodysplasia and erythodysplasia have...
What color is a 18ga needle?
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin

43. Ehrlichia sp.
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
Defects of hemostasis can be..
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?

44. Blue
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?
Fibrinolysis is...
What color is a 22ga needle?
These cells are only seen in dogs with anemia and is pathognomonic with IMHA. Small round evenly stained.

45. Cow; dusty purple grey
How long is platelet rich plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient? Do you refrigerate it? Why?
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?
These cells are only seen in dogs with anemia and is pathognomonic with IMHA. Small round evenly stained.
Where are immunoglobins made?

46. Blue granules
Which species has inconsistent eosinophil granules?
What is the advantage of a plastic bag technique? disadvantages?
Prothrombinase starts the _______ pathway Which is when the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways converge
What do you look for to identify a basophil

47. Myelodysplasia
What is a WBC tumor?
What does PTT and PT evaluate?
What does the plt estimate evaluate?
What is the plt dervided growth factor?

48. Saline wash
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What are the 4 names that can be given to the size of larger than normal platelets?
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils

49. Prothrombin time
Which test is best to diagnose warfarin poisoning?
What are the routes of fluid replacement?
The lymphocyte is the most dominant WBC in...
What are the 4 presentations of toxic neutrophils

50. PLTs - WBCs - NRBCs - and microfilaria
In What animals would you use the syringe technique?
What is contained in the buffy coat?
What type of granules are in a promyelocyte? are they committed?
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird