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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Jar 1- fixative- 5 one second dips jar 2 -eosinophilc - 5 one second dips jar 3 - basophilic - 7-10 one second dips
What is in each jar in the Dif Quick stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
How long is platelet rich plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient? Do you refrigerate it? Why?
Fibrinogen > __________

2. (Hb x 10)/RBC
MCH
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
What are the indications for BM sampling
Give 4 examples of hemolysis errors in collection of CBC/LTT

3. Vit K
What are the requirements for a canine blood donor?
are mast cell tumors easy to diagnose in house? if so why?
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?

4. Iron deficiencies and Japanese Akitas
Microsytosis is often seen in...
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird
Why do we stage lymphoid tumors?
What are 2 causes of hypovolemia?

5. Primary absolute polycythemia and secondary absolute polycythemia
What are the 2 types of absolute polycythemia?
What are toxic azurophilic granules? What can cause these?
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH

6. Use simplate device to make an incision into upper lip - start timer - using filter paper dab site (dont wipe) every 10 seconds until bleeding stops. Normal range: 1-3min in dogs and cats
What is the method for BMBT?
What are the 3 types of cytological patterns?
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
This cell looks like a punched out cell.

7. Antigen or foreign protein
Which test is best to diagnose warfarin poisoning?
vacuoles
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?

8. 72 hours; thrombocytopenia; no; because the platelets aggregate
How long is platelet rich plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient? Do you refrigerate it? Why?
This can be seen in cattle - camel - sheep - goats - antelope - birds. Causes a veneral disease in horses.
Where are immunoglobins made?
How can an animal lose 50% of their blood volume and still be ok?

9. Obs = # retics/1000 x 100 COR = (Pt PCV/ Average PCV) x observed % Abs = # retics/1000 x RBC ct
What is the Observed Retic Count Formula? Corrected Retic Count? Absolute Retic Count?
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus
What is another name for a blister cell?
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.

10. Round to oval nucleus with smudged chromatin; high N:C
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis

11. oval
What are some examples of acellular components of blood and What are their functions?
What are 3 examples of acquired primary hemostasis defects (vascular part)
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus

12. Reticulocyte count
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?
What is the name of the granulocyte stage that has secondary granules? are they committed?
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
During secretion What does PF3 do?

13. Detects decreases in fibrinogen and thrombin inhibition from FDPs
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
What does the test thrombin time detect?
Define absolute

14. Bleed them out
What is the best technique used to deliver donated blood into recipient? What if they were puppies/kittens
These are small fragments of a RBC. Can be seen in a patient with DIC - iron deficiency or heartworms.
What is the tx for RBC tumor
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?

15. Prostaglandins in cell wall - bacterial products - infectious and non-infectious inflammatory processes
What is fibrinolysis?
What does granular cytoplasm look like?
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
MCV

16. Drugs - DIC - Uremia
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal platelet count?
Platelet function defects are often acquired due to ___ - ______ - _______

17. Horse
What are the 4 names that can be given to the size of larger than normal platelets?
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
What does a mature avian RBC look like
What species never releases immature RBCs early?

18. Adhesion - Aggregation - Secretion
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
A vascular spasm is immediate...
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
What are some causes of BM failure

19. Hemorrhage- good for oxygen increasing and volume expansion
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
EPO is involved with hypoxia...

20. Anatomical distribution - histologic pattern - and cytologic pattern
What does plt count evaluate?
What are the classifications of lymphoid tumors?
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?
What is the specific use for LTT?

21. Vascular part - platelet plug
What are 2 causes of hypovolemia?
List at least 5 differences between avian and mammalian hematology
What are the 2 parts of primary hemostasis
What color is a 25ga needle?

22. Mean Corpuscular Volume - gives us the size of RBCs
What does MCHC stand for and what will it tell us?
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
What happens during aggregation
What are dohle bodies?

23. normally very balanced activators vs inhibitors
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...
How much and how often can a dog donate blood? a cat?
Fibrinolysis is...
What is the function of protein?

24. RTT - LTT - BTT - Dia.
It take ___ days to see a response to anemia in the peripheral blood
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
If you have a dog come in ADR and you need to draw blood with vacutainer - what order should you fill your tubes?
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis

25. Neutrophil; 6 hours; 2-2.5x
What erythoroocyte antigens must a dog be lacking to be a universal donor?
What are the 2 main proteins?
For what cell do we have a 5 day supply in the marginating pool? What is their half-life? Turnover rate?
What test would be run using blood from a RTT?

26. Between endothelial cells; they sit until demand from tissue
Where is the marginating pool located in the body? What are the granulocytes doing in this pool?
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
If I see unusually large RBCs what will I use? Unusually small RBCs?

27. Blue
Fibrinogen > __________
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation
What type of granules are in a promyelocyte? are they committed?
What color is a 22ga needle?

28. Nuclear and cytoplasmic
Give 2 examples of clot errors in collection of CBC/LTT
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
What are the 2 morphologic changes of WBCs?

29. Cells that are dead; have clumps of what used to be nucleus
Name the 2 agranulocytes
What is pyknosis? What do they look like?
What are the blood types of a cat?
What is the most important trait of blood donation?

30. Postprandial (patient just ate) - hypothyroid - diabetes mellitus
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?
In a geriatric patient is TP high or low?
What is hyperviscosity syndrome?
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....

31. Monolayer on 40x
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?
What is the name of the granulocyte stage that has secondary granules? are they committed?

32. Tissue factor - prothrombinase
The WBC morphology includes...
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?
vacuoles
Extrinsic pathway requires a ____ _____ for activationand the end product is ___________

33. Circulating pool; mature granulocytes; 6-8 hours
Fibrinogen measurment makes up what percent of the TP?
What is the difference between a red ring and a black ring hematocrit tube?
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?
FDPs are normally cleared by what?

34. For smaller animals with small volumes collected
What does the plt estimate evaluate?
What is the normal range of a RBC ct for a dog? a cat?
In What animals would you use the syringe technique?
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.

35. Shaking - too small a needle with too much neg. back pressure - intravascular hemolysis
What are 3 reasons we evaluate TP?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
What is an example of loss of RBC
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?

36. Megakaryocyte
A platelet is a cytoplasmic fragment of a __________
What are the 3 types of cytological patterns?
What are the indications for BM sampling
What is the specific use for LTT?

37. 39-55 -30-36
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
A platelet is a cytoplasmic fragment of a __________
What is the method for ACT?

38. Coagulation studies
What is the specific use for BTT?
What are the 3 components of hemostasis
What is the advantage of a plastic bag technique? disadvantages?
What are 3 causes of hypervolemia

39. (PCV x 10)/RBC
The RBC morphology includes...
What is in each jar in the Dif Quick stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
MCV
Fibrinogen and WBCs...

40. Microcytic
Define artifact
What are the Vitamin K depended factors
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?

41. Band neutrophil
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
Which anticoagulant is best to use when using blood to make a smear?
What is the defining cell of inflammation?
What are the 2 nuclear changes in a lymphocyte? What is the 4 cytoplasmic changes?

42. Pink granules
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
At birth is TP high or low
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?

43. They increase
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?

44. Aggregate
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?
What is a serum separator tube?
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
Who do we frequently see Heinz bodies in?

45. TPR - MM - CRT - PCV - TP
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?
An example of acquired primary hemostasis defects (platelet plug part) is...
What is the baseline information that you should obtain on your patient while the transfusion is taking place?
What does a RTT contain?

46. CBC in birds and reptiles
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
What is the specific use for Black Ring Hematocrit?
What are 2 causes of hypovolemia?
Why is the initial rate of administration slow?

47. 7-10 days
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking

48. Schistocytes
These are small fragments of a RBC. Can be seen in a patient with DIC - iron deficiency or heartworms.
If I see unusually large RBCs what will I use? Unusually small RBCs?
What is another name for a blister cell?
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?

49. Vacuoles in cytoplasm with foaminess- can see pits on 100x
What is the mech of relative hyperproteinemia and an example
What is the most common neoplasia of lymph nodes?
Barney the dog has a MCHC of 19 - What term will I use for evaluation?
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?

50. Sick stressed cats due to lack of enzymes
What does PTT and PT evaluate?
Microsytosis is often seen in...
Name the 2 agranulocytes
Who do we frequently see Heinz bodies in?