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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Not cleaning refractometer - drying of sample - inclusion of buffy coat
Does the toxic neutrophil have to have all the presentation to be toxic? What would you report out for each presentation?
What is the mech. of relative hypoproteinemia and an exampl?
Platelet function defects are often acquired due to ___ - ______ - _______
What would cause an artifact hyperproteinemia

2. normally very balanced activators vs inhibitors
What is the tx for RBC tumor
Fibrinolysis is...
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?
What is contained in the buffy coat?

3. no body
How can an animal lose 50% of their blood volume and still be ok?
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...
What is contained in the buffy coat?
What are the indications for BM sampling

4. Eccentric nucleus with low N:C ratio - very clear perinuclear halo; only seen in birds and reptiles
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?
What is the specific use for BTT?
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
All components necessary for intrinsic pathway are...

5. Thrombocytopenia
An example of acquired primary hemostasis defects (platelet plug part) is...
What are the normal ranges for ACT?
Regarding the Absolute Retic Count.....< 60 -000 = ___________ > 60 -000 = ___________
What is in each jar in the Wright's stain and What is the procedure of each jar?

6. > 10lb - PCV > 30-35% - current on vx - only indoor cat
What color is a 25ga needle?
What is the advantage of a plastic bag technique? disadvantages?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
What are the requirements for a cat to be a donor?

7. Yes
What are the 3 mech. that cause absolute hypoproteinemia and give an example of each.
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
Does a clot error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?

8. 50:50%; 0-5%; rare
What are the three abnormal colors you would see on a plasma evaluation?
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
The lymphocyte is the most dominant WBC in...
What would cause an artifact hyperproteinemia

9. Promoters - inhibitors
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation
Hemophilias A and B are examples of ______ secondary hemostasis defects - but are not very common in the veterinary field
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
What do you look for to identify a basophil

10. New Anemia -Decrease production anemia
It take ___ days to see a response to anemia in the peripheral blood
Fibrinogen > __________
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.

11. PPSC - Rubriblast - Prorubricyte - Rubricyte - Metarubricyte - Polychromatophilic - Mature RBC
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
chromatin
List the stages of RBC production starting with the PPSC
List 3 venipuncture sites in the cat and the needle size for each

12. Liver function - immune status - hydrations - kidney function - and GI function
What are some advantages of Oxyglobin?
What are 3 reasons we evaluate TP?
Where is the storage pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
Thrombocytes tend to...

13. Empty package of negate stain
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
vacuoles

14. 5 -000 -000-10 -000 -000/microliter; 5 -000 -000-11 -000 -000/microliter
Lucy the dog has a MCV of 75 - What term will I use for evaluation?
What is the normal range of a RBC ct for a dog? a cat?
What does the FDP test detect?
How long is platelet rich plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient? Do you refrigerate it? Why?

15. Water - its function is thermoregulation - lubrication - transporter and chemical reactions
What is an example of the fluid component of blood?
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?
What is the plt dervided growth factor?
What is this the test of choice for?

16. w/o anemia
Fibrinogen and WBCs...
EPO is involved with hypoxia...
Platelet function defects are often acquired due to ___ - ______ - _______
What are the 3 types of cytological patterns?

17. But temporary
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
A vascular spasm is immediate...
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia

18. 39-55 -30-36
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?
What happens during aggregation
When evaluating the size of RBCs we not only look at How many RBCs have a size difference but also the...
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?

19. 35 days if kept at 1-6 degrees celsius in CPDA; oxygen carrying capacity - anemic normovolemic - anemic hypovolemic in conjunction with crystalloids
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?

20. High calorie - high glucose treat (Ad or regular diet with Karo syrup poured on top)
What happens during aggregation
Does a clot error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?
MCV

21. Cat
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?
What are the types of BM sample?
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?

22. It is the percent of a quantity of blood Which is made up of the red blood cells.
What is the definition of PCV?
At birth is TP high or low
What are 2 causes of roughened endothelium?
list the venipuncture site in sheep and goats and the needle size

23. Ghost cell
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
Where does protein originate from?
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
If there is 5 or more nRBCs in the on the blood film - what must you do?

24. Circulating pool; mature granulocytes; 6-8 hours
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?
What do you look for to identify a neutrophil?
Microsytosis is often seen in...
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a dog or cat? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?

25. PO - IV - SQ - IP - IO
List 3 venipuncture sites in the cat and the needle size for each
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?
What are the routes of fluid replacement?
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?

26. 60-90 sec for dogs - <65 sec for cats
What are the normal ranges for ACT?
These cells have irregular spicules that are uneven in size and distribution. Seen in dogs with liver disease.
What does the test thrombin time detect?
What does granular cytoplasm look like?

27. Leukocytosis
What are the 2 main proteins?
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?
If you have a dog come in ADR and you need to draw blood with vacutainer - what order should you fill your tubes?

28. fresh
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better

29. Immature - cleft or bleb; reactive - granular cytoplasm - plasma cell - mott cell
What is the specific gravity of distilled water?
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?
What are the 2 nuclear changes in a lymphocyte? What is the 4 cytoplasmic changes?

30. Obs = # retics/1000 x 100 COR = (Pt PCV/ Average PCV) x observed % Abs = # retics/1000 x RBC ct
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in horses?
What is the stimulus for RBC production?
What oxidized drugs or chemicals can cause heinz bodies?
What is the Observed Retic Count Formula? Corrected Retic Count? Absolute Retic Count?

31. Leukocytozoon spp
Lucy the dog has a MCV of 75 - What term will I use for evaluation?
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
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
Thrombocytes tend to...

32. Lung deficit - asthma - altitude - PDA
In the control reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
The end product of contact activation (or intrinsic pathway) is _______
Which test is best to diagnose warfarin poisoning?
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?

33. Platelets stick to each other
What happens during aggregation
What do you look for to identify a monocyte?
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...
What are the 4 tests used to diagnose a plasma cell tumor?

34. BLV - bovine leukemia virus
What are the types of BM sample?
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?
What are the routes of fluid replacement?

35. IV catheter; IO or IP
What is the plt dervided growth factor?
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?
vacuoles
What is the best technique used to deliver donated blood into recipient? What if they were puppies/kittens

36. Fuzzy - hairy - appear to have tentacle or strings coming off of it which means they are reactive platelets
EPO is involved with hypoxia...
Which species is the only species in which we evaluate the central pallor?
If an animal is 5-6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
Platelets are always irrregular in shape - but what would an abnormally shaped platelet look like?

37. VWB factor
Adhesion requires what factor?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
list 3 venipuncture sites in a bird and the needle size for each
When looking at the body on 10x What are you looking for?

38. Ehrlichia sp.
Name the 2 agranulocytes
Why is it important that you use the appropriate thumb forceps when using wright's stain?
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?

39. Primary hemostasis and plt number
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?
What is the most common inherited bleeding disorder in animals
What 3 anticoagulants contain preservatives and What are their shelf lives?
What does plt count evaluate?

40. Heparin which prevents conversion of prothrombin to thrombin
What type of anticoagulant is in a green top tube
What is in each jar in the Wright's stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?

41. Inconsistent - small - and irregular
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?
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)
What is the method for ACT?
What do the granules look like in a dog - horse - or cow basophil?

42. Aggregate
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What is fibrinolysis?
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally

43. 72 hours; thrombocytopenia; no; because the platelets aggregate
Name the 3 granulocytes
___________ was discovered in the Veterinary field first
A vascular spasm is immediate...
How long is platelet rich plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient? Do you refrigerate it? Why?

44. 2 syringe technique and multiple vacutainer tube technique
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?

45. Cellular - acellular - and fluid
What does a mature avian RBC look like
What is the most common neoplasia of lymph nodes?
What are the 3 components of blood?
What are some causes of BM failure

46. Cytauxzoon sp.
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?
What is an example of loss of RBC
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________

47. WBC- defense - RBC- O2 transport - Plts- platelet plug
What does a RTT contain?
What are the examples for the cellular components of blood and What are their functions?
What is the specific use for Black Ring Hematocrit?
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?

48. Grey
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
Why is the initial rate of administration slow?
Avian basophils do not have a...
What color is a 16ga needle?

49. Metamyelocyte
What is the most important trait of blood donation?
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
why would we see an increase in eos on a BM aspirate with a patient with a mast cell tumor?
What is the Observed Retic Count Formula? Corrected Retic Count? Absolute Retic Count?

50. In bone marrow; metamyelocytes and bands
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What are the 3 nuclear changes in a neutrophil? What is the 1 cytoplasmic change?
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
How long is platelet rich plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient? Do you refrigerate it? Why?