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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Large amounts to be effective - not long lasting - pricey
What are some disadvantages of Oxyglobin?
For what cell do we have a 5 day supply in the marginating pool? What is their half-life? Turnover rate?
What are the 2 categories of errors in collection of CBC/LTT?
What are the 4 presentations of toxic neutrophils

2. Leukocytosis
Where does protein originate from?
RBC that has a pale colored mouth area and only seen in dogs with hereditary chondrodystrophy (dwarfish)
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?
Mature RBCs are normally seen in the ______ ______ and immature RBC are in the _______ _____.

3. w/o anemia
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?
What are the three abnormal colors you would see on a plasma evaluation?
EPO is involved with hypoxia...

4. Protrusion will be very dark in color
What would a Heinz body look like stained in NMB
What are some examples of acellular components of blood and What are their functions?
What are the 2 main proteins?
What does BMBT evaluate

5. Microcytic
What is the function of protein?
For what cell do we have a 5 day supply in the marginating pool? What is their half-life? Turnover rate?
During secondary hemostasis each coagulation factor is converted to its active form by what?
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?

6. Aggregate
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
What are the two types of transfusion reactions? Which one is a rejection of RBC antigens?
What is the mech. of relative hypoproteinemia and an exampl?

7. High - because hormones trigger a hyper immune state.
What infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
The WBC morphology includes...
During gestation is TP high or low?
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?

8. EDTA blood causes mycoplasma to fall off of RBCs making it harder to see.
Define absolute
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
Why might you not want to use EDTA blood to view Mycoplasma haemofelis?
What type of anticoagulant is in a grey top tube?

9. Dif Quick - DipStat - Wright's stain
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
What are the two types of transfusion reactions? Which one is a rejection of RBC antigens?
What is the specific use for GreyTT?
For what cell do we have a 5 day supply in the marginating pool? What is their half-life? Turnover rate?

10. Fibrin clot
What are the examples for the cellular components of blood and What are their functions?
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird
The final product of secondary hemostasis is a stable ____ _______ which seals larger blood vessel defects
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?

11. Uncontrolled growth arising from blood or blood forming organs
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?
What avian WBC am I describing.....typically rod-shaped - eosinophilic granule which partially or completely obscure the nucleus
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?

12. Lymphosarcoma
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
What is the most common neoplasia of lymph nodes?
What is plasma?
Why are monocyte numbers low in WBC differentials?

13. PPSC differentiates into a rubriblast -Increase in hemoglobin synthesis -Early release of immature RBCs if needed
Barney the dog has a MCHC of 19 - What term will I use for evaluation?
These cells are only seen in dogs with anemia and is pathognomonic with IMHA. Small round evenly stained.
What are 3 effects of EPO?
What avian WBC am I describing.....typically rod-shaped - eosinophilic granule which partially or completely obscure the nucleus

14. Iron deficiencies and Japanese Akitas
Microsytosis is often seen in...
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
What is TP measured in?

15. Actually fibrinogen increases before WBCs increase
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
What are 2 causes of hypovolemia?
In the control reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
Why is the initial rate of administration slow?

16. Sodium citrate Which binds with calcium to prevent coagulation
What is this the test of choice for?
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal WBC count?
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT

17. Vasculitis - collagen deficiency - extensive vascular injury
What are 3 examples of acquired secondary hemostasis defects
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
What are 3 examples of acquired primary hemostasis defects (vascular part)

18. Kidney
The end product of contact activation (or intrinsic pathway) is _______
Fibrinogen and WBCs...
This RBC inclusion looks like single very dark round spot on routine stain.
What organ produces EPO?

19. To avoid introduction of tissue thromboplastin in your sample and clotting
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.
Why would we want an atraumatic venipuncture?
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?

20. 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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21. Cardiomyopathy in cats and HWD in dogs
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....
What are 2 causes of roughened endothelium?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?

22. Red (hemolytic) - yellow (icteric) - and white (lipemic)
What does a mature avian RBC look like
What granulocyte has a nucleus that is uniformly plump and spread out?
What are the three abnormal colors you would see on a plasma evaluation?
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?

23. PPSC - Rubriblast - Prorubricyte - Rubricyte - Metarubricyte - Polychromatophilic - Mature RBC
List the stages of RBC production starting with the PPSC
Fibrinogen > __________
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?

24. normally very balanced activators vs inhibitors
This infectious agent looks like a cracked egg - seen in dogs - transmitted by the tick and causes anemia - emaciation and anorexia.
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
Fibrinolysis is...

25. Nodular: walled off - diffuse: deep in tissues
What are the two types of transfusion reactions? Which one is a rejection of RBC antigens?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
What 2 ways does a platelet form?
These are cells that are spiculated with even small projections over the entire cell.

26. B/c eos produce anti histamine to counteract the histamine i the mast cell granules
Avian basophils do not have a...
During the production of coagulation factors the liver can make all factors except part of factor ___ and _____
why would we see an increase in eos on a BM aspirate with a patient with a mast cell tumor?
During gestation is TP high or low?

27. 1 year; bleeding disorders (hemophila) - gives passive immunity (Parvo)
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?
How long is fresh frozen plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient?
What are 3 reasons we evaluate TP?
What happens during aggregation

28. Azurophilic granules in the cytoplasm
What does granular cytoplasm look like?
Prothrombinase starts the _______ pathway Which is when the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways converge
List the stages of RBC production starting with the PPSC
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?

29. Increased concentration: dehydration
Define absolute
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
What is the mech of relative hyperproteinemia and an example
What are 2 examples of acquired fibrinolysis defects

30. no body
What color is a 18ga needle?
An example of acquired primary hemostasis defects (platelet plug part) is...
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...

31. Nulcear characteristics and cytoplasmic characteristics
What are some side effects to Oxyglobin? Are these side effects anything to worry about? why?
What do you look for to identify a monocyte?
The WBC morphology includes...
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....

32. Red ring - blue ring - and black ring tubes
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
What color is a 25ga needle?
What are the 3 types of hematocrit tubes?
What are toxic azurophilic granules? What can cause these?

33. But temporary
A vascular spasm is immediate...
What color is a 18ga needle?
What test would be run using blood from a RTT?
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________

34. > 10lb - PCV > 30-35% - current on vx - only indoor cat
What is the function of protein?
What are the requirements for a cat to be a donor?
What is in each jar in the Wright's stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
Explain the Diff Quick staining technique for avian hematology

35. Promoters - inhibitors
What are the 4 names that can be given to the size of larger than normal platelets?
A vascular spasm is immediate...
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal platelet count?
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation

36. Hemotomas - bleeding into muscle joints/body cavities and delayed bleeding after venipunture
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?
Clinical signs of a secondary hemostasis defect are.....
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
Defects of hemostasis can be..

37. Blood glucose
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
What is this the test of choice for?
What are the 3 components of hemostasis
What is the specific use for GreyTT?

38. Prognosis and tx protocol
What does the FDP test detect?
What are 2 causes of hypovolemia?
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
Why do we stage lymphoid tumors?

39. II - VII - IX - X
What are the Vitamin K depended factors
What does ACT evaluate?
What can happen if you use Na Citrate in high volumes when storing donor blood?
What are the 3 nuclear changes in a neutrophil? What is the 1 cytoplasmic change?

40. VIII and vWB
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
What is the specific use for BTT?
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?
During the production of coagulation factors the liver can make all factors except part of factor ___ and _____

41. Macrophages
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
What granulocyte has a nucleus that is uniformly plump and spread out?

42. 5 minutes at 6000 rpm
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?
What is an example of increased destruction?

43. Hypoxia w/o anemia and glucocorticoids
What are 2 examples of acquired fibrinolysis defects
what WBC do mast cells resemble
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?
What are the 2 causes of secondary absolute polycythemia?

44. To observe for transfusion reactions
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
Why is the initial rate of administration slow?
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?

45. Oxyglobin
This cell looks like a punched out cell.
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first
What are the normal ranges for ACT?
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?

46. 3-6%
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 ___ ___
Platelet morphology includes...
Thrombocytes tend to...
Fibrinogen measurment makes up what percent of the TP?

47. Macrocytosis
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
T/F myelodysplasia and erythodysplasia have...
Which species has inconsistent eosinophil granules?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal platelet count?

48. New Anemia -Decrease production anemia
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?
The RBC morphology includes...
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?
are mast cell tumors easy to diagnose in house? if so why?

49. Antigen or foreign protein
Why might you not want to use EDTA blood to view Mycoplasma haemofelis?
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?

50. Heparin which prevents conversion of prothrombin to thrombin
What type of anticoagulant is in a green top tube
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?
Hemophilias A and B are examples of ______ secondary hemostasis defects - but are not very common in the veterinary field
What are some examples of acellular components of blood and What are their functions?