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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. .98mls to .02mls
All components necessary for intrinsic pathway are...
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?
What are 2 examples of acquired fibrinolysis defects
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?

2. Ghost cell
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
What type of granules are in a promyelocyte? are they committed?
What is the biggest error in hematology?
What oxidized drugs or chemicals can cause heinz bodies?

3. Vascular part - platelet plug
Define artifact
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
What are the 2 parts of primary hemostasis
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?

4. Von Willebrand's Disease
What are the 4 names that can be given to the size of larger than normal platelets?
What is the most common inherited bleeding disorder in animals
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
An example of an inherited primary hemostasis defect (vascular part) is........

5. 50:50%; 0-5%; rare
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
What avian WBC am I describing.....typically rod-shaped - eosinophilic granule which partially or completely obscure the nucleus
What is a neutrophil commonly referred to as?
What is a WBC tumor?

6. RBC tumor - RBC replicating uncontrollably. EPO is not involved.
What is the tx for RBC tumor
What are some causes of primary absolute polycythemia?
What color is a 22ga needle?
What is the definition of PCV?

7. Left shift - regenerative left shift - or inflammatory leukogram
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
What is a reactive lymph look like? What animals are they seen in?

8. Neovascularization
How much and how often can a dog donate blood? a cat?
What color is a 18ga needle?
What is the plt dervided growth factor?
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?

9. 2 years at room temperature
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.
What are some causes of BM failure
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?

10. Recycle old RBCs - engulf bacteria - clean up any major messes
What are some examples of immunologic?
What does VWF test evaluate?
What do monocytes do?
What is the mech. of relative hypoproteinemia and an exampl?

11. To help increase BP to place a catheter or if you cant give IV
What are some advantages of Oxyglobin?
Why would you give fluids IO or IP?
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?

12. Cytoplasm appears to have a more blue color than usual
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?
List at least 5 differences between avian and mammalian hematology
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?

13. Blood gases
What is the specific use for GreenTT?
Which species has inconsistent eosinophil granules?
Where is the marginating pool located in the body? What are the granulocytes doing in this pool?
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________

14. Saline wash
What does the test thrombin time detect?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?
Where are immunoglobins made?
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?

15. Fibrin clot
What type of anticoagulant is in a green top tube
What are the indications for BM sampling
The final product of secondary hemostasis is a stable ____ _______ which seals larger blood vessel defects
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?

16. WBC identification rule of thumb
Judge the cells by the company that they keep is a...
What are some symptoms of immediate hypersensitivity?
What is the tx for RBC tumor
What does hemosiderin look like?

17. Calculated a corrected WBC ct.
If there is 5 or more nRBCs in the on the blood film - what must you do?
Which species has uniform small round refractile eosinophil granules?
What is serum?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?

18. Common Common Pathway Substances: Prothrombin > _______
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?
Prothrombinase starts the _______ pathway Which is when the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways converge
What are the 2 causes of secondary absolute polycythemia?
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.

19. Keratocyte
Briefly describe what happens during adhesion
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?
What are 2 examples of acquired fibrinolysis defects

20. Liver Failure - DIC
What does BMBT evaluate
What are the types of BM sample?
What is the specific use for LTT?
What are 2 examples of acquired fibrinolysis defects

21. Clot that breaks off from its origin place and lodges somewhere else
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking
Explain the Diff Quick staining technique for avian hematology
Define thromboembolic disorder
What test would be run using blood from a RTT?

22. Oval with raisin-like nucleus
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?
What can happen if you use Na Citrate in high volumes when storing donor blood?
What does a mature avian RBC look like

23. don't cause clots
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
What two factors does the vascular part of primary hemostasis produce? And By what cells specifically?
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...

24. Monolayer on 40x
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
List 3 venipuncture sites in the dog and the needle size for each
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?

25. Primary hemostasis and plt number
What does plt count evaluate?
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?
What is serum?
If an animal is anemic __________ will be seen in the peripheral blood

26. Increase loss of RBCs - Increase destruction - and decrease production
What are the 3 mechanisms of anemia?
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
What color is a 22ga needle?
Where is the marginating pool located in the body? What are the granulocytes doing in this pool?

27. Blue
What color is a 22ga needle?
Where is the proliferating or dividing pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What are the 2 nuclear changes in a lymphocyte? What is the 4 cytoplasmic changes?
What are the requirements for a cat to be a donor?

28. RTT with gel like substance used to separate cells form serum
These cells have irregular spicules that are uneven in size and distribution. Seen in dogs with liver disease.
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What is a serum separator tube?
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a dog or cat? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?

29. Pink
What color is a 20ga needle?
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.
During secretion - TXA is released by platelets and causes what?

30. Not mixing upon intro - slow draw - dinking around - traumatic venipuncture
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?
Give 2 examples of clot errors in collection of CBC/LTT
List 6 tests to evaluate RBCs
What are 2 causes of hypovolemia?

31. segmented nucleus
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
Avian basophils do not have a...
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
List 2 venipuncture sites in the cow and the needle size for each

32. Oxyglobin
RBC that has a pale colored mouth area and only seen in dogs with hereditary chondrodystrophy (dwarfish)
It take ___ days to see a response to anemia in the peripheral blood
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first

33. Poikilocytosis
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
Name the 3 granulocytes
What is an example of the fluid component of blood?

34. Basophils
What are the Vitamin K depended factors
what WBC do mast cells resemble
What is the mech. of relative hypoproteinemia and an exampl?
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation

35. Jugular- 18ga
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds
What do you look for to identify a neutrophil?
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
Which species has uniform small round refractile eosinophil granules?

36. VWB factor
What happens during aggregation
What are the three abnormal colors you would see on a plasma evaluation?
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.
Adhesion requires what factor?

37. Obs = # retics/1000 x 100 COR = (Pt PCV/ Average PCV) x observed % Abs = # retics/1000 x RBC ct
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?
When evaluating the size of RBCs we not only look at How many RBCs have a size difference but also the...
What is the Observed Retic Count Formula? Corrected Retic Count? Absolute Retic Count?
What is the method for ACT?

38. Maintains osmotic pressure
What is the advantage of a plastic bag technique? disadvantages?
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
If I see unusually large RBCs what will I use? Unusually small RBCs?
What is the function of albumin?

39. Blood glucose
What is the specific use for Blue Ring Hematocrit?
What does hemosiderin look like?
What is the specific use for GreyTT?
During gestation is TP high or low?

40. 5 -000 -000-10 -000 -000/microliter; 5 -000 -000-11 -000 -000/microliter
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?
What is the normal range of a RBC ct for a dog? a cat?
Why is it good to know what blood components that your patient needs?
What does ACT evaluate?

41. BTT
EPO is involved with hypoxia...
What is the specific use for LTT?
What tube is used for all the sent our tests except FDPs?
What are the 2 causes of secondary absolute polycythemia?

42. Vasoconstriction and further platelet aggregation (overall goal is to get more platelets to that area)
During secretion - TXA is released by platelets and causes what?
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________
granule
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?

43. PPSC - Megakaryoblast - Promegakaryocyte - Megakaryocyte
List the order of Platelet production
All components necessary for intrinsic pathway are...
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...

44. Nulcear characteristics and cytoplasmic characteristics
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?
All cells can get...
The WBC morphology includes...
When evaluating the size of RBCs we not only look at How many RBCs have a size difference but also the...

45. Mix equal parts of EDTA whole blood and NMB -Incubate 10-20 min -Make Blood Film -View on 100x -Count 1000 RBC - tally retics
How much and how often can a dog donate blood? a cat?
What anticoagulant is in a LTT or PTT?
MCH
What is the procedure for doing a retic count?

46. Roughened endothelium - protein C deficiency - and nephrotic syndrome
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
What is a WBC tumor?
What color is a 22ga needle?

47. Leukocytopenia or leukopenia
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal WBC count?
What is the stimulus for platelets
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
What 2 ways does a platelet form?

48. Right shift; greater than 5 lobes
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...

49. defective maturation series
What type of anticoagulant is in a green top tube
T/F myelodysplasia and erythodysplasia have...
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
Why would you give fluids IO or IP?

50. Biliary stasis - carotenes - ev hemolysis
list 2 venipuncture sites in the pig and the needle size for each
What is dysproteinemia?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
What are two stains used in staining blood films?