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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Black ring has a smaller diameter
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
What is the difference between a red ring and a black ring hematocrit tube?
In the control reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
What are the 3 components of blood?

2. VIII and vWB
During the production of coagulation factors the liver can make all factors except part of factor ___ and _____
List 3 venipuncture sites in the cat and the needle size for each
Name the 3 granulocytes
What does hemosiderin look like?

3. Metamyelocyte
Adhesion requires what factor?
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?

4. PPSC - Megakaryoblast - Promegakaryocyte - Megakaryocyte
What is the procedure for doing a retic count?
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
List the order of Platelet production
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?

5. Hyperchromic
What are the 3 components of hemostasis
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?
Define relative

6. 37-55% - 30-45%
What is the normal range of a PCV for a dog? a cat?
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?

7. Band neutrophil
What is the defining cell of inflammation?
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
At birth is TP high or low
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?

8. Hyperproteinemia - salt retention in CHF or iartrogenic
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
What is the initial rate of administration for a transfusion?
What are 3 causes of hypervolemia

9. Acute- DIC - ruptured spleen - chronic- GI ulcers
blood loss can be acute or chronic - What are some causes for acute? chronic?
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
What does granular cytoplasm look like?

10. Hemorrhage- good for oxygen increasing and volume expansion
How many blood cells are counted when doing a WBC differential?
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
Explain the Diff Quick staining technique for avian hematology
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.

11. Ponctate Polka Dot Ribosomes More mature retic -Aggregate Clumped Ribosomes Younger retic
List the two types of retics along with there morphological and physiological characteristics
This infectious agent looks like a cracked egg - seen in dogs - transmitted by the tick and causes anemia - emaciation and anorexia.
During fibrinolysis unbound plasmin in inactivated and bound plasmin hydrolyzes fibrin producing ______
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?

12. B/c eos produce anti histamine to counteract the histamine i the mast cell granules
What erythoroocyte antigens must a dog be lacking to be a universal donor?
During the production of coagulation factors the liver can make all factors except part of factor ___ and _____
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis
why would we see an increase in eos on a BM aspirate with a patient with a mast cell tumor?

13. Blood glucose
What are the stages of lymphoid tumors?
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?
What is the specific use for GreyTT?
Judge the cells by the company that they keep is a...

14. Heparin and 3.8% Na Citrate
Why do we stage lymphoid tumors?
What are the requirements for a canine blood donor?
Why might you not want to use EDTA blood to view Mycoplasma haemofelis?
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?

15. Pink
are mast cell tumors easy to diagnose in house? if so why?
Briefly describe what happens during adhesion
What color is a 20ga needle?
These cells have irregular spicules that are uneven in size and distribution. Seen in dogs with liver disease.

16. RBC morphology - WBC morphology - and platelets
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?
What is this the test of choice for?
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
What are the 2 types of absolute polycythemia?

17. BLV - bovine leukemia virus
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal WBC count?
What is a WBC tumor?
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?

18. Thrombocytopenia
What is the only cell that has the ability to recirculate? How do they do this?
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal platelet count?
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?
During fibrinolysis unbound plasmin in inactivated and bound plasmin hydrolyzes fibrin producing ______

19. 2 gtts donor RBC suspension and 2 gtts recipient plasma
In the major reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?
What is the specific use for BTT?
What are the stages of lymphoid tumors?

20. VIII and vWB
What are the 2 causes of secondary absolute polycythemia?
The end product of contact activation (or intrinsic pathway) is _______
What are the three pathways (limbs) of secondary hemostasis?
Endothelium and platelets produce What two factors?

21. Basophils
what WBC do mast cells resemble
What are the 3 functions of platelets
What other cell is counted in the WBC ct (other than WBCs)?
What are the 2 types of absolute polycythemia?

22. Immatures - hypersegmented neutrophils - pyknosis; toxic neutrophils
What is in each jar in the Wright's stain and What is the procedure of each jar?
What are the 3 nuclear changes in a neutrophil? What is the 1 cytoplasmic change?
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?

23. 72 hours; thrombocytopenia; no; because the platelets aggregate
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What is serum?
How long is platelet rich plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient? Do you refrigerate it? Why?

24. PPSC - Rubriblast - Prorubricyte - Rubricyte - Metarubricyte - Polychromatophilic - Mature RBC
List the stages of RBC production starting with the PPSC
List 3 venipuncture sites in the dog and the needle size for each
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?

25. 2 syringe technique and multiple vacutainer tube technique
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?
T/F myelodysplasia and erythodysplasia have...
EPO is involved with hypoxia...

26. 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?
What are the 3 components of hemostasis
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
In the minor reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?

27. Size - shape - and number
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 is the function of immunglobins?
Platelet morphology includes...
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?

28. Fibrin
During secondary hemostasis What is formed to stabilize the primary hemostatic plug?
List the two types of retics along with there morphological and physiological characteristics
Platelet morphology includes...
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?

29. 1.000
What are the 2 morphologic changes of WBCs?
What is the specific use for BTT?
What is the specific gravity of distilled water?
List the order of Platelet production

30. Band
What granulocyte has a nucleus that is uniformly plump and spread out?
What are the 4 presentations of toxic neutrophils
What is the tx for RBC tumor
What is the normal range of a RBC ct for a dog? a cat?

31. Enzymes and non enzymes factors - -calcium - tissue factors - vitamins
What is the specific use for BTT?
During gestation is TP high or low?
What are some examples of soluble coagulation factors?? Cofactors??
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?

32. Secondary hemostasis specifically intrinsic and common pathways
list 2 venipuncture sites in the pig and the needle size for each
What does PTT and PT evaluate?
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?

33. 35 days if kept at 1-6 degrees celsius in CPDA; oxygen carrying capacity - anemic normovolemic - anemic hypovolemic in conjunction with crystalloids
During secretion - TXA is released by platelets and causes what?
Why would you give fluids IO or IP?
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?

34. Primary granules; no
What type of granules are in a promyelocyte? are they committed?
What are the two types of transfusion reactions? Which one is a rejection of RBC antigens?
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.

35. Heterophil
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds
Name the 3 granulocytes
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation
What type of anticoagulant is in a grey top tube?

36. Extrinsic - Intrinsic - common
What is the initial rate of administration for a transfusion?
How much and how often can a dog donate blood? a cat?
What are the three pathways (limbs) of secondary hemostasis?
What is hyperviscosity syndrome?

37. Drugs - DIC - Uremia
Platelet function defects are often acquired due to ___ - ______ - _______
What do you look for to identify a neutrophil?
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What is the function of protein?

38. Obs = # retics/1000 x 100 COR = (Pt PCV/ Average PCV) x observed % Abs = # retics/1000 x RBC ct
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
What type of anticoagulant is in a grey top tube?
chromatin
What is the Observed Retic Count Formula? Corrected Retic Count? Absolute Retic Count?

39. Increase loss: hemorrhage - decrease production: liver failure - decrease consumption: starvation
What is the specific use for LTT?
What are the 3 mech. that cause absolute hypoproteinemia and give an example of each.
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking

40. Promoters - inhibitors
MCV
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation

41. Left shift - regenerative left shift - or inflammatory leukogram
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal RBC count?
During gestation is TP high or low?
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?
What are some causes of primary absolute polycythemia?

42. Primary hemostasis and plt number
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
What does plt count evaluate?
Lucy the dog has a MCV of 75 - What term will I use for evaluation?
Fibrinogen and WBCs...

43. Vit K
What is required for carboxylation in the liver?
FDPs are normally cleared by what?
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?

44. fresh
What does hemosiderin look like?
Endothelium and platelets produce What two factors?
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better
In the major reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?

45. Primary absolute polycythemia and secondary absolute polycythemia
What are the 4 names that can be given to the size of larger than normal platelets?
What is the only cell that has the ability to recirculate? How do they do this?
What are the 2 types of absolute polycythemia?
Why are monocyte numbers low in WBC differentials?

46. Acetaminophin - maple leaves - onions - and zinc
Platelet morphology includes...
What are the blood types of a cat?
What oxidized drugs or chemicals can cause heinz bodies?
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia

47. Red ring and black ring hematocrit tubes
What is pyknosis? What do they look like?
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...
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?
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?

48. don't cause clots
Defects of hemostasis can be..
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus
Where should you place your BTT sample if it is going to be looked at in <6 hours? in >6 hours?
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...

49. No only one; report out toxic neutrophil for all presentations
Does the toxic neutrophil have to have all the presentation to be toxic? What would you report out for each presentation?
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?

50. No - but it is not ideal
What are the normal ranges for ACT?
Does a hemolysis error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
T/F myelodysplasia and erythodysplasia have...
What oxidized drugs or chemicals can cause heinz bodies?