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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Neutrophil - eosinophil - basophil
What do you look for to identify a basophil
Name the 3 granulocytes
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?

2. Macrocytosis
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal platelet count?
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
What are some causes of BM failure

3. oval
What are the routes of fluid replacement?
What does the test thrombin time detect?
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus
During secretion What does PF3 do?

4. Anisocytosis
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
If I see a variation in size of the RBCs What term will I use?
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first

5. Liver is #1 lymphoid tissue is #2
Where does protein originate from?
If I see a variation in size of the RBCs What term will I use?
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?
What does a mature avian RBC look like

6. Thrombin - fibrin
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
EPO is involved with hypoxia...
Fibrinogen > __________
List two ways the body gets rid of old RBCs

7. TPR - MM - CRT - PCV - TP
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in horses?
This infectious agent looks like a cracked egg - seen in dogs - transmitted by the tick and causes anemia - emaciation and anorexia.
What is the baseline information that you should obtain on your patient while the transfusion is taking place?
In the major reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?

8. Nutrients - minerals - hormones - and proteins all maintain homeostasis. electrolytes do action potentials. and enzymes function is catalyst.
What are the requirements for a cat to be a donor?
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?
What are some examples of acellular components of blood and What are their functions?
What is plasma?

9. Band
What do you look for to identify a monocyte?
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?
What does the plt estimate evaluate?
What granulocyte has a nucleus that is uniformly plump and spread out?

10. Protrusion will be very dark in color
What would a Heinz body look like stained in NMB
What do monocytes do?
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?

11. Von Willebrand's Disease
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...
What is the #1 cause of hypervolemia
An example of an inherited primary hemostasis defect (vascular part) is........
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.

12. Increase
During gestation is TP high or low?
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?
Fibrinogen > __________

13. don't cause clots
What do the granules of a mast cell contain
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?

14. Rouleaux or agglutination
What anticoagulant is in a LTT or PTT?
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal platelet count?
In a geriatric patient is TP high or low?

15. Shaking - too small needle with too much negative back pressure - rocker tray too long - water in syringe - freezing and thawing - squirting into tube - spinning too fast or too long
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
What is serum?
Give 4 examples of hemolysis errors in collection of CBC/LTT
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?

16. Reticulocyte count
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?
Define relative
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a dog or cat? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?

17. Fixative- 3 1 sec dips - Eosinophilic- 5 1 sec dips - Basophilic- 10-20 dips
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
Explain the Diff Quick staining technique for avian hematology
What solution do you add to RBCs to resuspend them when doing a crossmatch? What is the fluid portion called after you spin it again? Why is this step important?
What are 2 examples of acquired fibrinolysis defects

18. G/ld - rounded to the nearest 0.2
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in horses?
The lymphocyte is the most dominant WBC in...
What is TP measured in?
Define artifact

19. present in the blood
All components necessary for intrinsic pathway are...
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
MCHC
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?

20. Water - its function is thermoregulation - lubrication - transporter and chemical reactions
Give 2 examples of clot errors in collection of CBC/LTT
What is an example of the fluid component of blood?
List the two types of retics along with there morphological and physiological characteristics
What 3 anticoagulants contain preservatives and What are their shelf lives?

21. Around the heart and spinal cord seen in dairy cattle
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.
What does PTT and PT evaluate?
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?
Platelet morphology includes...

22. 7-10 days
What is the specific use for LTT?
What anticoagulant is in a LTT or PTT?
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?

23. fresh
This RBC inclusion looks like a clear nipple like protrusion on the outer edge.
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
Why would we want an atraumatic venipuncture?
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better

24. WBC identification rule of thumb
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
Judge the cells by the company that they keep is a...
What does a RTT contain?
There are 2 types of lymphocytes What are their names? What are each used for?

25. Uncontrolled growth arising from blood or blood forming organs
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?
list 2 venipuncture sites in the pig and the needle size for each
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
What do the granules look like in a dog - horse - or cow basophil?

26. Heparin and 3.8% Na Citrate
What does VWF test evaluate?
What is the name of the granulocyte stage that has secondary granules? are they committed?
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
Does the toxic neutrophil have to have all the presentation to be toxic? What would you report out for each presentation?

27. BM aspirate or BM core biopsy
What are the 3 collection techniques for blood donation?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?
What are the types of BM sample?
What is the most common inherited bleeding disorder in animals

28. Poikilocytosis
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?

29. 60-70 -30-36
What does VWF test evaluate?
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?

30. Oxyglobin
The WBC morphology includes...
What are the types of BM sample?
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first

31. Between endothelial cells; they sit until demand from tissue
What color is a 18ga needle?
Where is the marginating pool located in the body? What are the granulocytes doing in this pool?
What are the examples for the cellular components of blood and What are their functions?
list the venipuncture site in sheep and goats and the needle size

32. Thrombocytes
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?
What is the most important trait of blood donation?
Which anticoagulant is best to use when using blood to make a smear?
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________

33. Lymphocyte; they clone themselves before they die
What is your end patient observation if the blood is not compatible?
are mast cell tumors easy to diagnose in house? if so why?
What is the only cell that has the ability to recirculate? How do they do this?
What are 2 types of RBC tumors?

34. EDTA because you wont have stainging variation
Which anticoagulant is best to use when using blood to make a smear?
What is your end patient observation if the blood is not compatible?
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?
Why is it good to know what blood components that your patient needs?

35. PCV - TP - skin tugor - CRT
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
What tube is used for all the sent our tests except FDPs?

36. Cow; dusty purple grey
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?
What is the #1 cause of hypervolemia
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.

37. Marrow failure and tumor staging
What are the indications for BM sampling
What is contained in the buffy coat?
If an animal is anemic __________ will be seen in the peripheral blood
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?

38. Stimulates and amplifies the coagulation cascade (or secondary hemostasis)
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
Fibrinogen measurment makes up what percent of the TP?
During secretion What does PF3 do?
What is the most common neoplasia of lymph nodes?

39. Citrate intoxication- cardiac standstill - tremors - arrhythmias
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?
What is in each jar in the Dif Quick stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
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 can happen if you use Na Citrate in high volumes when storing donor blood?

40. VWB
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
What is the most common inherited bleeding disorder in animals
Clinical signs of a secondary hemostasis defect are.....
If I see a variation in size of the RBCs What term will I use?

41. To observe for transfusion reactions
List 3 venipuncture sites in the dog and the needle size for each
Who do we frequently see Heinz bodies in?
What are the requirements for a canine blood donor?
Why is the initial rate of administration slow?

42. 2 years at room temperature
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
What are 3 causes of hypervolemia
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?

43. High - because they lose the ability to retain water
During fibrinolysis unbound plasmin in inactivated and bound plasmin hydrolyzes fibrin producing ______
In a geriatric patient is TP high or low?
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?
What are the requirements for a canine blood donor?

44. Red ring - blue ring - and black ring tubes
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What are 2 types of RBC tumors?
What are the 3 types of hematocrit tubes?
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?

45. Red ring and black ring hematocrit tubes
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
The WBC morphology includes...

46. Degree of the difference
During secondary hemostasis each coagulation factor is converted to its active form by what?
When evaluating the size of RBCs we not only look at How many RBCs have a size difference but also the...
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
What is the initial rate of administration for a transfusion?

47. Spherocyte
Fibrinolysis is...
These cells are only seen in dogs with anemia and is pathognomonic with IMHA. Small round evenly stained.
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....
What is the minimum temperature that you should warm the blood before administering it?

48. Jugular- 20ga - cephalic- 22ga - recurrent tarsal/lateral saphenous- 25ga direct draw from patient
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?
What is the minimum temperature that you should warm the blood before administering it?
List 3 venipuncture sites in the dog and the needle size for each

49. Megakaryocyte
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird
A platelet is a cytoplasmic fragment of a __________
Why is it good to know what blood components that your patient needs?
Avian basophils do not have a...

50. Horse
What are the normal ranges for ACT?
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?
What is an example of loss of RBC