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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Primary hemostasis and plt number
What does plt count evaluate?
Name the 2 agranulocytes
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?
What is the most important trait of blood donation?

2. 55-85%; 15-45%; 0-5%; rare
What are the stages of lymphoid tumors?
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a dog or cat? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What is in each jar in the Dif Quick stain and What is the procedure of each jar?

3. Anaplasma marginale
What infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
What erythoroocyte antigens must a dog be lacking to be a universal donor?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?

4. Vasculitis - collagen deficiency - extensive vascular injury
What is the most common neoplasia of lymph nodes?
What does PTT and PT evaluate?
What are 3 examples of acquired primary hemostasis defects (vascular part)
What are the 3 functions of platelets

5. 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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6. Primary hemostasis and specifically plt number
What is the stimulus for platelets
What does the plt estimate evaluate?
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 the examples for the cellular components of blood and What are their functions?

7. Stomatocyte
RBC that has a pale colored mouth area and only seen in dogs with hereditary chondrodystrophy (dwarfish)
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?
This infectious agent looks like a cracked egg - seen in dogs - transmitted by the tick and causes anemia - emaciation and anorexia.
What does a mature avian RBC look like

8. Recycle old RBCs - engulf bacteria - clean up any major messes
When noting the number of platelets - What are the ranges and names?
What do monocytes do?
What are the 2 main proteins?
It take ___ days to see a response to anemia in the peripheral blood

9. Antigen or foreign protein
What is serum?
Where is the proliferating or dividing pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?

10. Amount is the same it just looks different (ex fish pond)
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
Define relative
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?
List 6 tests to evaluate RBCs

11. Swine - 3-3.5 inches long
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first
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?
which animal would you use a 16ga needle in? How long is the needle?
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?

12. Roughened endothelium - protein C deficiency - and nephrotic syndrome
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?
Why would you give fluids IO or IP?
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?

13. Empty package of negate stain
What erythoroocyte antigens must a dog be lacking to be a universal donor?
vacuoles
What are the 3 types of hematocrit tubes?
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?

14. Acetaminophin - maple leaves - onions - and zinc
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
What oxidized drugs or chemicals can cause heinz bodies?
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?
List 3 venipuncture sites in the dog and the needle size for each

15. Left shift - regenerative left shift - or inflammatory leukogram
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds

16. Heparin - histamine - and eosinophilic chemotactic factor
What does the plt estimate evaluate?
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
What do the granules of a mast cell contain
What is the defining cell of inflammation?

17. 100
What are some side effects to Oxyglobin? Are these side effects anything to worry about? why?
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?

18. In bone marrow; myeloblasts - promyelocytes - myelocytes
At birth is TP high or low
Where is the proliferating or dividing pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?
Why do we stage lymphoid tumors?

19. Cat
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....
What do you look for to identify a basophil

20. No - but it is not ideal
What is the mechanism of relative polycythemia and What is an example?
What color is a 22ga needle?
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?
Does a hemolysis error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?

21. Promoters - inhibitors
What is the specific use for Black Ring Hematocrit?
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation

22. Jugular vein- 22ga - cephalic vein- 25ga - femoral vein- 25ga
What is the initial rate of administration for a transfusion?
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
List 3 venipuncture sites in the cat and the needle size for each

23. Red
What are the blood types of a cat?
What test would be run using blood from a RTT?
What color is a 25ga needle?
Secondary hemostasis requires ___ _____ ____ and _______ in a cascade of conversion of inactive factors

24. The fluid portion of coagulated blood
Fibrinolysis is...
What is serum?
The final product of secondary hemostasis is a stable ____ _______ which seals larger blood vessel defects
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?

25. Vacuoles
What does the test thrombin time detect?
What is the initial rate of administration for a transfusion?
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
All cells can get...

26. oval
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus
During secondary hemostasis each coagulation factor is converted to its active form by what?
why would we see an increase in eos on a BM aspirate with a patient with a mast cell tumor?
During secondary hemostasis What is formed to stabilize the primary hemostatic plug?

27. But temporary
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
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 ___ ___
A vascular spasm is immediate...
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?

28. EDTA Which binds with calcium preventing coagulation
list the venipuncture site in sheep and goats and the needle size
What anticoagulant is in a LTT or PTT?
Defects of hemostasis can be..
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?

29. Leptocyte
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?
What are some advantages of Oxyglobin?
These RBCs have more surface area than contents. Similar to a half full zip lock bag or look like they have wrinkles.

30. Heparin and 3.8% Na Citrate
What does MCHC stand for and what will it tell us?
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 PCV for a dog? a cat?
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?

31. Blood loss and dehydration
What is the side effect of glucocorticoids? Is EPO involved?
What color is a 18ga needle?
Fibrinogen > __________
What are 2 causes of hypovolemia?

32. Actually fibrinogen increases before WBCs increase
How long is fresh frozen plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient?
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
The end product of contact activation (or intrinsic pathway) is _______
What is an example of decreased production?

33. 2 gtts donor plasma and 2 gtts recipient RBC suspension
In the minor reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
What are the 2 causes of secondary absolute polycythemia?
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better

34. 5.0-7.0 g/dl - 5.0-8.0 g/dl
This RBC inclusion looks like a clear nipple like protrusion on the outer edge.
What does plt count evaluate?
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?

35. Normocytic
During gestation is TP high or low?
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?
granule
Give 4 examples of hemolysis errors in collection of CBC/LTT

36. Microcytic
What does ACT evaluate?
Secondary hemostasis requires ___ _____ ____ and _______ in a cascade of conversion of inactive factors
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?
list 2 venipuncture sites in the pig and the needle size for each

37. 35 days if kept at 1-6 degrees celsius in CPDA; oxygen carrying capacity - anemic normovolemic - anemic hypovolemic in conjunction with crystalloids
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?
What is the procedure for doing a retic count?
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?

38. Increase
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?
Microsytosis is often seen in...
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?

39. Pink granules
What is an example of loss of RBC
RBC that has a pale colored mouth area and only seen in dogs with hereditary chondrodystrophy (dwarfish)
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
In What animals would you use the syringe technique?

40. Nonimmunologic and immunologic; immunologic
What is the #1 cause of hypervolemia
What would cause an artifact hyperproteinemia
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
What are the two types of transfusion reactions? Which one is a rejection of RBC antigens?

41. Mean Corpuscular Volume - gives us the size of RBCs
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?
Where are immunoglobins made?
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?

42. PLTs - WBCs - NRBCs - and microfilaria
What are the 2 cytoplasmic changes in the monocyte? They individually or together are pathognomonic signs of what?
What is the only cell that has the ability to recirculate? How do they do this?
What is contained in the buffy coat?
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?

43. Band neutrophil
Explain the Diff Quick staining technique for avian hematology
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
What is the defining cell of inflammation?
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?

44. no body
Prothrombinase starts the _______ pathway Which is when the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways converge
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?

45. Mean Corpuscular Hb Concentration - gives us the amount of Hb
During gestation is TP high or low?
What does MCHC stand for and what will it tell us?
Where is the proliferating or dividing pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What are some examples of nonimmunologic?

46. Grey
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?
What color is a 16ga needle?
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?

47. Leukocytozoon spp
What are the requirements for a canine blood donor?
What color is a 20ga needle?
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
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?

48. Coverslips
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________
What are dohle bodies?
What color is a 22ga needle?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?

49. Jugular- 18ga - tail vein- 20 or 18ga
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?
Define relative
List 2 venipuncture sites in the cow and the needle size for each
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?

50. RBC morphology - WBC morphology - and platelets
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
What are some causes of primary absolute polycythemia?
Fibrinogen measurment makes up what percent of the TP?
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)