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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Leukocytosis
If I see a variation in size of the RBCs What term will I use?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?
What are the 2 main proteins?
Explain the Diff Quick staining technique for avian hematology

2. Primary hemostasis
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
What does BMBT evaluate
Why is the initial rate of administration slow?
For what cell do we have a 5 day supply in the marginating pool? What is their half-life? Turnover rate?

3. hereditary or acquired
Define artifact
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
Defects of hemostasis can be..
What is the specific use for Blue Ring Hematocrit?

4. Around the heart and spinal cord seen in dairy cattle
What are the classifications of lymphoid tumors?
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?
A vascular spasm is immediate...
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?

5. Amount is the same it just looks different (ex fish pond)
Define relative
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?

6. Iron deficiencies and Japanese Akitas
Fibrinogen measurment makes up what percent of the TP?
Microsytosis is often seen in...
What is the function of albumin?
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?

7. If buffer gets into the stain jar the slide will not stain correctly

8. 2 gtts donor plasma and 2 gtts recipient RBC suspension
What is the stimulus for RBC production?
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils
In the minor reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?

9. B/c eos produce anti histamine to counteract the histamine i the mast cell granules
These are small fragments of a RBC. Can be seen in a patient with DIC - iron deficiency or heartworms.
why would we see an increase in eos on a BM aspirate with a patient with a mast cell tumor?
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?

10. Platelets stick to each other
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?
What happens during aggregation
If I see unusually large RBCs what will I use? Unusually small RBCs?

11. Plastic bag - glass bottle - syringe
During fibrinolysis unbound plasmin in inactivated and bound plasmin hydrolyzes fibrin producing ______
What is the #1 cause of hypervolemia
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?
What are the 3 collection techniques for blood donation?

12. Heparin - histamine - and eosinophilic chemotactic factor
What is the baseline information that you should obtain on your patient while the transfusion is taking place?
What do monocytes do?
What do the granules of a mast cell contain
Hemophilias A and B are examples of ______ secondary hemostasis defects - but are not very common in the veterinary field

13. Cellular - acellular - and fluid
What are the 3 components of blood?
What solution do you add to RBCs to resuspend them when doing a crossmatch? What is the fluid portion called after you spin it again? Why is this step important?
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.
What are some examples of immunologic?

14. Hemonate for microdrips and admin set with filter for macrodrips
What is a hemopoetic neoplasia?
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?
What is the advantage of a plastic bag technique? disadvantages?
Lucy the dog has a MCV of 75 - What term will I use for evaluation?

15. .98mls to .02mls
What organ produces EPO?
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
What infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?

16. Canaries - lovebirds - and chickens
The lymphocyte is the most dominant WBC in...
What are some causes of primary absolute polycythemia?
What is a WBC tumor?
What color is a 18ga needle?

17. Salivation - v/d - dyspnea - death
What are some symptoms of immediate hypersensitivity?
blood loss can be acute or chronic - What are some causes for acute? chronic?
What is fibrinolysis?
What is the mech. of relative hypoproteinemia and an exampl?

18. Saline wash
What are the indications for BM sampling
chromatin
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal WBC count?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?

19. 3-6%
Fibrinogen measurment makes up what percent of the TP?
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?
What does MCHC stand for and what will it tell us?
What 2 ways does a platelet form?

20. Coverslips
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________
What color is a 22ga needle?
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?

21. Ehrilichia - babesia - RMSF - borrelia - brucella - dirofilaria
During the production of coagulation factors the liver can make all factors except part of factor ___ and _____
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?
What is the initial rate of administration for a transfusion?
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size

22. 15-45%; 55-85%; 0-5%; rare
List 2 venipuncture sites in the cow and the needle size for each
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What color is a 20ga needle?
What are 2 examples of acquired fibrinolysis defects

23. Thrombocytopenia
An example of acquired primary hemostasis defects (platelet plug part) is...
What color is a 25ga needle?
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
Does a clot error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?

24. Reticulocyte count
What are 2 causes of roughened endothelium?
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
List 3 venipuncture sites in the cat and the needle size for each
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia

25. Dif Quick - DipStat - Wright's stain
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
What is the name of the granulocyte stage that has secondary granules? are they committed?
granule
What is the function of albumin?

26. Body - monolayer - and feathered edge
What is the side effect of glucocorticoids? Is EPO involved?
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What does ACT evaluate?

27. Schistocytes
When would you use Cryopercipitate on your patient?
These are small fragments of a RBC. Can be seen in a patient with DIC - iron deficiency or heartworms.
What some send out tests that could be run for bleeding disorders?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?

28. don't cause clots
Why might you not want to use EDTA blood to view Mycoplasma haemofelis?
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
What are 2 types of RBC tumors?

29. The preceding factor
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________
During secondary hemostasis each coagulation factor is converted to its active form by what?
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?
What are 2 causes of hypovolemia?

30. Normocytic
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?
What shape is the nucleus in a lymphocyte? a monocyte?
What avian WBC am I describing.....typically rod-shaped - eosinophilic granule which partially or completely obscure the nucleus
What is TP measured in?

31. Causes an increase in RBCs. NO EPO involved.
What are the 2 cytoplasmic changes in the monocyte? They individually or together are pathognomonic signs of what?
What is the method for BMBT?
What is the side effect of glucocorticoids? Is EPO involved?
What color is a 22ga needle?

32. Size - shape - color - and +/- inclusions
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils
What two factors does the vascular part of primary hemostasis produce? And By what cells specifically?
What are the 3 components of blood?
The RBC morphology includes...

33. Blood glucose
What does the test thrombin time detect?
Platelets are always irrregular in shape - but what would an abnormally shaped platelet look like?
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What is the specific use for GreyTT?

34. Left shift - regenerative left shift - or inflammatory leukogram
Who do we frequently see Heinz bodies in?
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?

35. Jar 1- fixative- 5 one second dips jar 2 -eosinophilc - 5 one second dips jar 3 - basophilic - 7-10 one second dips
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
What is in each jar in the Dif Quick stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?

36. Mononuclear Phagocytic System -Intravascular Hemolysis
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
What are the routes of fluid replacement?
List two ways the body gets rid of old RBCs
What do you look for to identify a basophil

37. Blood chemistries
What test would be run using blood from a RTT?
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
This infectious agent looks like a cracked egg - seen in dogs - transmitted by the tick and causes anemia - emaciation and anorexia.
What is the mech. of relative hypoproteinemia and an exampl?

38. Pink
What would be 2 causes of artifact hypoproteinemia?
Which species is the only species in which we evaluate the central pallor?
What color is a 20ga needle?
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?

39. Oval with raisin-like nucleus
What does a mature avian RBC look like
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
list 3 venipuncture sites in a bird and the needle size for each
During gestation is TP high or low?

40. Ad: non-breakable - no vacuum - no activation of coagulation factors - component separation is easier; dis: migration of plastic into blood - slower collection
The final product of secondary hemostasis is a stable ____ _______ which seals larger blood vessel defects
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?
What is the advantage of a plastic bag technique? disadvantages?
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?

41. Stage 1: one organ stage 2: stage 1 + regional lymph nodes stage 3: stage 2 + all lymph nodes stage 4: stage 3 + liver and spleen stage 5: stage 4 + BM and blood
Which test is best to diagnose warfarin poisoning?
The end product of contact activation (or intrinsic pathway) is _______
These are small fragments of a RBC. Can be seen in a patient with DIC - iron deficiency or heartworms.
What are the stages of lymphoid tumors?

42. Swine - 3-3.5 inches long
which animal would you use a 16ga needle in? How long is the needle?
What do monocytes do?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?
When noting the number of platelets - What are the ranges and names?

43. Partial thromboplastin time - prothrombin time - VWF test - thrombin time - FDPs
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
What some send out tests that could be run for bleeding disorders?
Which species has inconsistent eosinophil granules?
What are the 3 collection techniques for blood donation?

44. fresh
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better
What is the rule when testing for a plasma cell tumor?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?

45. VIII and vWB
Microsytosis is often seen in...
Endothelium and platelets produce What two factors?
What does MCHC stand for and what will it tell us?
What does a RTT contain?

46. Hemorrhage- good for oxygen increasing and volume expansion
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
What are the 2 parts of primary hemostasis
A vascular spasm is immediate...

47. Structural matrix - ground work for a cell - acts as transporters and carriers
What is the function of protein?
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?
What are the Vitamin K depended factors
This is seen with canine distemper virus and can be present on WBC - RBC - epithelial cells - would be in Plts but wont be able to see.

48. Dark purple-magenta granular inclusions in the cytoplasm; endotoxins - toxicemia
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation
What does a RTT contain?
What are toxic azurophilic granules? What can cause these?
What are some examples of immunologic?

49. Hemotomas - bleeding into muscle joints/body cavities and delayed bleeding after venipunture
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
Clinical signs of a secondary hemostasis defect are.....
What are the types of BM sample?
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?

50. CBC in birds and reptiles
What is the specific use for Black Ring Hematocrit?
Fibrinogen and WBCs...
If the neutrophil nuclear immatures are high end of normal - what would you call this? low end of normal?
What do the granules of a mast cell contain