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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. Leukocytosis with increased bands; leukopenia or degenerative left shift
Hairball the cat has a MCV of 32 - What term will I use for the evaluation?
What do you look for to identify a neutrophil?
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
If the neutrophil nuclear immatures are high end of normal - what would you call this? low end of normal?

2. Blast: lrg cell - mature: sm. cell - mixed: seen in horses commonly
blood loss can be acute or chronic - What are some causes for acute? chronic?
What are the 3 types of cytological patterns?
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
During secretion What does PF3 do?

3. Stimulates and amplifies the coagulation cascade (or secondary hemostasis)
How can an animal lose 50% of their blood volume and still be ok?
Microsytosis is often seen in...
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds
During secretion What does PF3 do?

4. Abnormal protein measurement in blood
why would we see an increase in eos on a BM aspirate with a patient with a mast cell tumor?
What are the routes of fluid replacement?
What is dysproteinemia?
What is another name for a blister cell?

5. 6 -000-17 -000/microliter; 5 -500-19 -500/microliter
Why might you not want to use EDTA blood to view Mycoplasma haemofelis?
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
What is the only species that has basophil granules uniform round pale blue gray?

6. Black ring has a smaller diameter
What is the difference between a red ring and a black ring hematocrit tube?
When looking at the feathered edge on 10x What are two things you would be looking for?
List 2 venipuncture sites in the cow and the needle size for each
What granulocyte has a nucleus that is uniformly plump and spread out?

7. Increase at the same time
If you have a dog come in ADR and you need to draw blood with vacutainer - what order should you fill your tubes?
Fibrinogen and WBCs...
What some send out tests that could be run for bleeding disorders?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal platelet count?

8. Primary hemostasis and plt number
What is the function of protein?
What does plt count evaluate?
List at least 5 differences between avian and mammalian hematology
What does BMBT evaluate

9. B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes; B are used for antibody production; T are used for hypersensitivity reactions - elimination of intracellulaar organisms - elimination of abnormal tissues
There are 2 types of lymphocytes What are their names? What are each used for?
What does a mature avian RBC look like
What are some side effects to Oxyglobin? Are these side effects anything to worry about? why?
Why do we stage lymphoid tumors?

10. Actually fibrinogen increases before WBCs increase
Give 2 examples of clot errors in collection of CBC/LTT
What color is a 18ga needle?
In ruminants - WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?

11. Red ring - blue ring - and black ring tubes
What are the 3 types of hematocrit tubes?
What are some examples of acellular components of blood and What are their functions?
There are 2 types of lymphocytes What are their names? What are each used for?
Why would we want an atraumatic venipuncture?

12. Detects decreases in fibrinogen and thrombin inhibition from FDPs
What does the test thrombin time detect?
What does hemosiderin look like?
What are the 3 types of hematocrit tubes?
What are the 4 names that can be given to the size of larger than normal platelets?

13. EDTA because you wont have stainging variation
How much and how often can a dog donate blood? a cat?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal platelet count?
What does the test thrombin time detect?
Which anticoagulant is best to use when using blood to make a smear?

14. In bone marrow; myeloblasts - promyelocytes - myelocytes
Mast cells have a _____ nucleus
Define absolute
Where is the proliferating or dividing pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What is the initial rate of administration for a transfusion?

15. Nodular: walled off - diffuse: deep in tissues
What is a reactive lymph look like? What animals are they seen in?
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
What are the examples for the cellular components of blood and What are their functions?

16. 5.0-7.0 g/dl - 5.0-8.0 g/dl
Irregular shaped RBCs - this is the term used when other classifications do not describe the film.
What are some disadvantages of Oxyglobin?
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?

17. VWB factor
Adhesion requires what factor?
What is the specific gravity of distilled water?
List 6 tests to evaluate RBCs
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?

18. Cytauxzoon sp.
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
During the production of coagulation factors the liver can make all factors except part of factor ___ and _____
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.
What is this the test of choice for?

19. clump together
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
What are the requirements for a cat to be a donor?
What is the mech of absolute hyperproteinemia and an example
Thrombocytes tend to...

20. Vascular part - platelet plug
List the stages of RBC production starting with the PPSC
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?
Give 2 examples of clot errors in collection of CBC/LTT
What are the 2 parts of primary hemostasis

21. Thrombin - platelets
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
FDPs have anticoagulant activity Which blocks _______ and inhibits _______ from sticking
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?

22. Immediate hypersensitivity or delayed hypersensitivity
An example of acquired primary hemostasis defects (platelet plug part) is...
What are some examples of immunologic?
What are 2 causes of hypovolemia?
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?

23. Stimulated by sympathetic nerves - causes constriction of smooth muscle.
Where are immunoglobins made?
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)
These cells are only seen in dogs with anemia and is pathognomonic with IMHA. Small round evenly stained.
What are the 3 types of hematocrit tubes?

24. Ponctate Polka Dot Ribosomes More mature retic -Aggregate Clumped Ribosomes Younger retic
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?
List the two types of retics along with there morphological and physiological characteristics
What happens during aggregation
What is the most common neoplasia of lymph nodes?

25. Dog
Which species is the only species in which we evaluate the central pallor?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?
are mast cell tumors easy to diagnose in house? if so why?
What avian WBC am I describing.....typically rod-shaped - eosinophilic granule which partially or completely obscure the nucleus

26. Bone marrow toxin - kidney failure - iron defiency
What is an example of decreased production?
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?
What is diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?

27. CBC in birds and reptiles
What is the defining cell of inflammation?
What is the specific use for Black Ring Hematocrit?
An example of acquired primary hemostasis defects (platelet plug part) is...
List two ways the body gets rid of old RBCs

28. PO
If an animal is under 4% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What are the 2 types of absolute polycythemia?
What do you look for to identify a monocyte?
When looking at the feathered edge on 10x What are two things you would be looking for?

29. Blue-grey inclusion in the cytoplasm that is irregular in shape
What are dohle bodies?
For the intrinsic pathway factors XII - XI - IX - VIII are activated by contact with collagen - endotoxin platelet products and other negatively charged substances. This process can be called ___ ___
What are the 3 types of cytological patterns?
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?

30. It is the percent of a quantity of blood Which is made up of the red blood cells.
This RBC inclusion looks like a clear nipple like protrusion on the outer edge.
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
What is the definition of PCV?

31. 2 years at room temperature
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?
What would a Heinz body look like stained in NMB

32. Increase in RBCs
Define polycythemia
What is an example of increased destruction?
Where is the storage pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
Thrombocytes tend to...

33. Hemonate for microdrips and admin set with filter for macrodrips
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?
All cells can get...
For what cell do we have a 5 day supply in the marginating pool? What is their half-life? Turnover rate?
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?

34. Fibrin clot
The final product of secondary hemostasis is a stable ____ _______ which seals larger blood vessel defects
What is the stimulus for RBC production?
What are the Vitamin K depended factors
This RBC inclusion looks like single very dark round spot on routine stain.

35. PCV - TP - skin tugor - CRT
What happens during aggregation
Adhesion requires what factor?
What are 3 effects of EPO?
What are some test to do to determine what % an animal is dehdrated?

36. Peripheral Blood - Bone Marrow
What erythoroocyte antigens must a dog be lacking to be a universal donor?
What are 2 types of RBC tumors?
What would a Heinz body look like stained in NMB
Mature RBCs are normally seen in the ______ ______ and immature RBC are in the _______ _____.

37. 2 gtts donor RBC suspension and 2 gtts donor plasma
In the control reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
What are the 2 types of histological patterns?
What are the 3 types of hematocrit tubes?
What are the 2 main proteins?

38. Neovascularization
What is the plt dervided growth factor?
What is the normal range of a TP for a dog? a cat?
An example of an inherited primary hemostasis defect (vascular part) is........
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?

39. DIC - Warfarin toxication; within 6 hours; platelets and clotting factors
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
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?
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus

40. Citrate intoxication- cardiac standstill - tremors - arrhythmias
MCV
In the major reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
What can happen if you use Na Citrate in high volumes when storing donor blood?
What type of anticoagulant is in a grey top tube?

41. Hemorrhage- good for oxygen increasing and volume expansion
This RBC inclusion looks like a clear nipple like protrusion on the outer edge.
If the neutrophil nuclear immatures are high end of normal - what would you call this? low end of normal?
When would you use whole blood transfusion on your patient?
List the order of Platelet production

42. Adequate size and WBC distribution
What does MCHC stand for and what will it tell us?
Why is it good to know what blood components that your patient needs?
What is plasma?
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?

43. Hereditary
What is the most important trait of blood donation?
What does PTT and PT evaluate?
Hemophilias A and B are examples of ______ secondary hemostasis defects - but are not very common in the veterinary field
A platelet plug by itself is short lived and can only stop hemmorage but....

44. Thrombocytes
This RBC inclusion looks like single very dark round spot on routine stain.
Mammalian hematology has platelets and avian hematology has ___________
What do you look for to identify a monocyte?
What some send out tests that could be run for bleeding disorders?

45. Howell-Jolly Bodies
Endothelium and platelets produce What two factors?
Defects of hemostasis can be..
These cells have irregular spicules that are uneven in size and distribution. Seen in dogs with liver disease.
This RBC inclusion looks like single very dark round spot on routine stain.

46. Horse
MCHC
List the order of Platelet production
What species never releases immature RBCs early?
What is the method for BMBT?

47. Canaries - lovebirds - and chickens
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
The lymphocyte is the most dominant WBC in...
What are the 4 tests used to diagnose a plasma cell tumor?
Define polycythemia

48. They increase
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?
list 2 venipuncture sites in the pig and the needle size for each
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?

49. PSS; RBC wash; removes non-erythrocytic antigens from blood
chromatin
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?
If an animal is 5-6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?

50. Keratocyte
What is the specific use for LTT?
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 are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.