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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Structural matrix - ground work for a cell - acts as transporters and carriers
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?
Why are monocyte numbers low in WBC differentials?
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
What is the function of protein?

2. Russel bodies in cytoplasm - constipated plasma cell - honeycomb appearing; only seen in birds and reptiles
What is the mechanism of relative polycythemia and What is an example?
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus

3. Adhesion - Aggregation - Secretion
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
What are the 4 presentations of toxic neutrophils
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?

4. Perform 2 or more of the test
What is the rule when testing for a plasma cell tumor?
What is the specific use for BTT?
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?

5. Thrombin - platelets
What is a WBC tumor?
What does a RTT contain?
What are dohle bodies?
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking

6. No - but it is not ideal
Does a hemolysis error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia

7. 2 gtts donor plasma and 2 gtts recipient RBC suspension
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
In the minor reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
What are 2 causes of roughened endothelium?

8. 450 mls; 56 mls
When looking at the feathered edge on 10x What are two things you would be looking for?
What are dohle bodies?
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?

9. Citrate intoxication- cardiac standstill - tremors - arrhythmias
Platelet function defects are often acquired due to ___ - ______ - _______
Does a hemolysis error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
What can happen if you use Na Citrate in high volumes when storing donor blood?
When would you use fresh whole blood transfusion on your patient? How many hours from time of collection for it to be considered fresh? What does it contain that makes it better?

10. 15-45%; 55-85%; 0-5%; rare
What is the most common inherited bleeding disorder in animals
What can happen if you use Na Citrate in high volumes when storing donor blood?
What is this the test of choice for?
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?

11. Aggregate
What does the FDP test detect?
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
What are some causes of BM failure
What is the specific use for BTT?

12. DIC - Warfarin toxication; within 6 hours; platelets and clotting factors
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
When would you use fresh whole blood transfusion on your patient? How many hours from time of collection for it to be considered fresh? What does it contain that makes it better?
What are the 2 morphologic changes of WBCs?

13. Basophilic stippling
What is the most important trait of blood donation?
Which anticoagulant is best to use when using blood to make a smear?
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....

14. Oxyglobin
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first
vacuoles
What is the advantage of a plastic bag technique? disadvantages?
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?

15. (PCV x 10)/RBC
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
It take ___ days to see a response to anemia in the peripheral blood
MCV
What is another name for a blister cell?

16. Deficiency of vitamin K - Liver Dz/Failure - DIC
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...
List 3 venipuncture sites in the dog and the needle size for each
What are 3 examples of acquired secondary hemostasis defects
Fibrinogen > __________

17. To avoid introduction of tissue thromboplastin in your sample and clotting
What is the only cell that has the ability to recirculate? How do they do this?
Why would we want an atraumatic venipuncture?
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking
What is a WBC tumor?

18. Contact activation
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
If an animal is 5-6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
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 ___ ___

19. EDTA blood causes mycoplasma to fall off of RBCs making it harder to see.
What are the 2 categories of errors in collection of CBC/LTT?
What is the most important trait of blood donation?
Why might you not want to use EDTA blood to view Mycoplasma haemofelis?
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?

20. High - because hormones trigger a hyper immune state.
What is the specific use for GreyTT?
What would a Heinz body look like stained in NMB
During gestation is TP high or low?
List 3 venipuncture sites in the dog and the needle size for each

21. Red
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
What color is a 25ga needle?
How much and how often can a dog donate blood? a cat?
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?

22. Cytoplasm appears to have a more blue color than usual
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?
Where is the storage pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
Extrinsic pathway requires a ____ _____ for activationand the end product is ___________
If an animal is anemic __________ will be seen in the peripheral blood

23. Beter distribution/transport of oxygen - do not have to cross match
What are some causes of BM failure
What are some advantages of Oxyglobin?
The final product of secondary hemostasis is a stable ____ _______ which seals larger blood vessel defects
What are some side effects to Oxyglobin? Are these side effects anything to worry about? why?

24. Metamyelocyte
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?
What is an example of loss of RBC
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
Where is the proliferating or dividing pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?

25. Increase production: inflammation - IMDz
What 2 ways does a platelet form?
Why is the initial rate of administration slow?
What is the mech of absolute hyperproteinemia and an example
What do you look for to identify a monocyte?

26. Basophils
what WBC do mast cells resemble
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
What is fibrinolysis?
Why is it good to know what blood components that your patient needs?

27. w/o anemia
EPO is involved with hypoxia...
What type of anticoagulant is in a grey top tube?
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?
List the two types of retics along with there morphological and physiological characteristics

28. For smaller animals with small volumes collected
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
In What animals would you use the syringe technique?
This can be seen in cattle - camel - sheep - goats - antelope - birds. Causes a veneral disease in horses.
What is the specific use for BTT?

29. Antigen or foreign protein
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
What are some causes of primary absolute polycythemia?
What is the function of protein?
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?

30. Red ring and black ring hematocrit tubes
1/4 of FeLV positive cats will develop...
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?
A vascular spasm is immediate...
What are the three pathways (limbs) of secondary hemostasis?

31. 2 gtts donor RBC suspension and 2 gtts recipient plasma
What is the minimum temperature that you should warm the blood before administering it?
What is the rule when testing for a plasma cell tumor?
In the major reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis

32. Blood gases
What color is a 20ga needle?
What is the specific use for GreenTT?
1/4 of FeLV positive cats will develop...
Define relative

33. Non regenerative - unexplained leukopenia - unexplained thrombocytopenia - presence of abnormal immature cells in peripheral blood
What color is a 25ga needle?
What are some causes of BM failure
What is the name of the granulocyte stage that has secondary granules? are they committed?
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?

34. Pink
When looking at the feathered edge on 10x What are two things you would be looking for?
List 3 venipuncture sites in the cat and the needle size for each
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 color is a 20ga needle?

35. Horse
Define polycythemia
During gestation is TP high or low?
Does a clot error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?

36. Increased concentration of amount of RBC ex: dehydration or splenic contraction
What is in each jar in the Wright's stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
What is the mechanism of relative polycythemia and What is an example?
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?
What are 3 effects of EPO?

37. High - because they lose the ability to retain water
An example of acquired primary hemostasis defects (platelet plug part) is...
In a geriatric patient is TP high or low?
What does hemosiderin look like?
FDPs are normally cleared by what?

38. Jugular- 18ga
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
What is the specific use for GreenTT?
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?

39. Petechia - ecchymosis - bleeding from mm - bleeding out after venipuncture
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal WBC count?
Adhesion requires what factor?

40. Trypanosoma sp
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?
This can be seen in cattle - camel - sheep - goats - antelope - birds. Causes a veneral disease in horses.
At birth is TP high or low

41. Thick blood b/c of excess proteins
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....
What are some examples of acellular components of blood and What are their functions?
What is hyperviscosity syndrome?
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...

42. Test for fibrinolysis specifically the amount of FDP
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?
What does the FDP test detect?
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
What would a Heinz body look like stained in NMB

43. Vacuoles in cytoplasm with foaminess- can see pits on 100x
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?
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 ___ ___
What color is a 20ga needle?
What do the granules look like in a dog - horse - or cow basophil?

44. PCV - TP - Plasma evaluation in conjunction with LTT
What infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
What are the 4 tests used to diagnose a plasma cell tumor?
What is the specific use for Blue Ring Hematocrit?
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?

45. Hemophila A and VWD- maintenance
Define relative
Define thromboembolic disorder
When would you use Cryopercipitate on your patient?
How long is fresh frozen plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient?

46. lymphosarcoma
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.
What is a reactive lymph look like? What animals are they seen in?
1/4 of FeLV positive cats will develop...
What tube is used for all the sent our tests except FDPs?

47. BM aspirate or BM core biopsy
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?
What are the types of BM sample?
What is serum?
Why is it important that you use the appropriate thumb forceps when using wright's stain?

48. 55-85%; 15-45%; 0-5%; rare
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a dog or cat? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
When looking at the feathered edge on 10x What are two things you would be looking for?
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?

49. .98mls to .02mls
What is TP measured in?
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
All components necessary for intrinsic pathway are...
What is your end patient observation if the blood is not compatible?

50. Spherocyte
These cells are only seen in dogs with anemia and is pathognomonic with IMHA. Small round evenly stained.
What is another name for a blister cell?
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.
All cells can get...