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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Mean Corpuscular Volume - gives us the size of RBCs
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?
What type of anticoagulant is in a grey top tube?

2. It is the percent of a quantity of blood Which is made up of the red blood cells.
What is the definition of PCV?
What is the tx for RBC tumor
Avian basophils do not have a...
What avian WBC am I describing.....typically rod-shaped - eosinophilic granule which partially or completely obscure the nucleus

3. Anaplasma marginale
What infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
What does erythrophagocytosis look like?
What are the requirements for a cat to be a donor?
What color is a 22ga needle?

4. Vasculitis - collagen deficiency - extensive vascular injury
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
What are 3 examples of acquired primary hemostasis defects (vascular part)
Lucy the dog has a MCV of 75 - What term will I use for evaluation?

5. 6 -000-17 -000/microliter; 5 -500-19 -500/microliter
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
If there is 5 or more nRBCs in the on the blood film - what must you do?
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.

6. High calorie - high glucose treat (Ad or regular diet with Karo syrup poured on top)
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?

7. Adequate size and WBC distribution
What is plasma?
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)

8. Appears adequate = between 8-30 per field appears decreased = fewer than 8 per field
Thrombocytes tend to...
What are the 3 collection techniques for blood donation?
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
When noting the number of platelets - What are the ranges and names?

9. Vascular part - platelet plug
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
What is the rule when testing for a plasma cell tumor?
What are the 2 parts of primary hemostasis
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus

10. Non- Regenerative -Regenerative
Prothrombinase starts the _______ pathway Which is when the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways converge
What are the examples for the cellular components of blood and What are their functions?
Regarding the Absolute Retic Count.....< 60 -000 = ___________ > 60 -000 = ___________
What tube is used for all the sent our tests except FDPs?

11. Vacuoles in cytoplasm with foaminess- can see pits on 100x
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?
What are the Vitamin K depended factors
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?
What are the 4 tests used to diagnose a plasma cell tumor?

12. 5.0-7.0 g/dl - 5.0-8.0 g/dl
There are 2 types of lymphocytes What are their names? What are each used for?
List at least 5 differences between avian and mammalian hematology
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________

13. PPSC - Megakaryoblast - Promegakaryocyte - Megakaryocyte
List the order of Platelet production
What are the Vitamin K depended factors
What are 2 examples of acquired fibrinolysis defects
When evaluating the size of RBCs we not only look at How many RBCs have a size difference but also the...

14. Increase
What is an example of the fluid component of blood?
Why might you not want to use EDTA blood to view Mycoplasma haemofelis?
What is the tx for RBC tumor
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?

15. Target cell
A platelet is a cytoplasmic fragment of a __________
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils
What do monocytes do?

16. Blue
A vascular spasm is immediate...
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
What color is a 22ga needle?
What is a neutrophil commonly referred to as?

17. New Anemia -Decrease production anemia
What is a neutrophil commonly referred to as?
These cells have irregular spicules that are uneven in size and distribution. Seen in dogs with liver disease.
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?
What is the specific use for GreyTT?

18. To help increase BP to place a catheter or if you cant give IV
Why would you give fluids IO or IP?
Adhesion requires what factor?
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
What granulocyte has a nucleus that is uniformly plump and spread out?

19. CBC in birds and reptiles
What is the specific use for Black Ring Hematocrit?
This infectious agent looks like a cracked egg - seen in dogs - transmitted by the tick and causes anemia - emaciation and anorexia.
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...
What is the specific gravity of distilled water?

20. Fibrin
During secondary hemostasis What is formed to stabilize the primary hemostatic plug?
Platelet function defects are often acquired due to ___ - ______ - _______
What would cause an artifact hyperproteinemia
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?

21. Immediate hypersensitivity or delayed hypersensitivity
What are the 2 categories of errors in collection of CBC/LTT?
What are some examples of immunologic?
What infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________

22. Albumin and immunglobins
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)
What are the 2 main proteins?
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?

23. Iatrogenic
What is the normal range of a RBC ct for a dog? a cat?
What are some symptoms of immediate hypersensitivity?
What is the #1 cause of hypervolemia
What are some disadvantages of Oxyglobin?

24. Thrombopathias and vascular
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
What is this the test of choice for?
List at least 5 differences between avian and mammalian hematology
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?

25. Primary hemostasis
What does BMBT evaluate
What are the 3 components of hemostasis
These cells have irregular spicules that are uneven in size and distribution. Seen in dogs with liver disease.
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?

26. 450 mls; 56 mls
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?
What are the blood types of a cat?
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?
What organ produces EPO?

27. PO - IV - SQ - IP - IO
Extrinsic pathway requires a ____ _____ for activationand the end product is ___________
If the neutrophil nuclear immatures are high end of normal - what would you call this? low end of normal?
What are the routes of fluid replacement?
This RBC inclusion looks like single very dark round spot on routine stain.

28. Around the heart and spinal cord seen in dairy cattle
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally

29. 5 minutes at 6000 rpm
What does a mature avian RBC look like
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?
It take ___ days to see a response to anemia in the peripheral blood

30. (Hb x 100)/ PCV
MCHC
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....
Where are immunoglobins made?
What are the 3 components of blood?

31. Protrusion will be very dark in color
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
These cells have irregular spicules that are uneven in size and distribution. Seen in dogs with liver disease.
What would a Heinz body look like stained in NMB
What are some advantages of Oxyglobin?

32. 3 times
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?
Why is it good to know what blood components that your patient needs?
What are the 3 nuclear changes in a neutrophil? What is the 1 cytoplasmic change?

33. Lymphocyte; resting memory cell; in lymph nodes
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 infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
what WBC do mast cells resemble

34. Hemoproteus spp
What are 3 reasons we evaluate TP?
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus
This RBC inclusion looks like single very dark round spot on routine stain.
Why is it good to know what blood components that your patient needs?

35. Round to oval nucleus with smudged chromatin; high N:C
Fibrinogen and WBCs...
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?

36. Shaking - too small a needle with too much neg. back pressure - intravascular hemolysis
What does a RTT contain?
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
Where should you place your BTT sample if it is going to be looked at in <6 hours? in >6 hours?

37. 10mls/# every 3 weeks; 5mls/# every 3-4 weeks
How much and how often can a dog donate blood? a cat?
What is the mech of absolute hyperproteinemia and an example
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?

38. 200 -000-500 -000/microliter; 200 -000-500 -000/microliter
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?
What is a WBC tumor?

39. The fluid portion of anticoagulated blood
What is plasma?
What is a WBC tumor?
What are dohle bodies?
Briefly describe what happens during adhesion

40. Roughened endothelium - protein C deficiency - and nephrotic syndrome
During fibrinolysis unbound plasmin in inactivated and bound plasmin hydrolyzes fibrin producing ______
What color is a 25ga needle?
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
Mature RBCs are normally seen in the ______ ______ and immature RBC are in the _______ _____.

41. Genetic material in the nucleus
chromatin
what WBC do mast cells resemble
Which test is best to diagnose warfarin poisoning?
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....

42. Blue-grey inclusion in the cytoplasm that is irregular in shape
What are dohle bodies?
What is the specific use for GreenTT?
What are the 3 mechanisms of anemia?
What do monocytes do?

43. doesn't last that long
What species never releases immature RBCs early?
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....

44. Cat
What are the 3 mech. that cause absolute hypoproteinemia and give an example of each.
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
What type of granules are in a promyelocyte? are they committed?
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?

45. NRBC
What is the specific gravity of distilled water?
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?
What is in each jar in the Dif Quick stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
What shape is the nucleus in a lymphocyte? a monocyte?

46. Reticulocyte count
What are 3 examples of acquired primary hemostasis defects (vascular part)
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
What are 2 types of RBC tumors?
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT

47. VWB factor
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
The WBC morphology includes...
Why is it important that you use the appropriate thumb forceps when using wright's stain?
Adhesion requires what factor?

48. Mix equal parts of EDTA whole blood and NMB -Incubate 10-20 min -Make Blood Film -View on 100x -Count 1000 RBC - tally retics
What is the procedure for doing a retic count?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
Why might you not want to use EDTA blood to view Mycoplasma haemofelis?
The WBC morphology includes...

49. IV
What granulocyte has a nucleus that is uniformly plump and spread out?
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
Which species is the only species in which we evaluate the central pallor?
What are the types of BM sample?

50. Ehrilichia - babesia - RMSF - borrelia - brucella - dirofilaria
What is an example of loss of RBC
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
All cells can get...
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?