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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. The preceding factor
What is the #1 cause of hypervolemia
During secondary hemostasis each coagulation factor is converted to its active form by what?
What color is a 16ga needle?
List 3 venipuncture sites in the cat and the needle size for each

2. 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
Does a clot error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal WBC count?
What is an easy way of remembering how much blood you can safely draw from a bird
There are 2 types of lymphocytes What are their names? What are each used for?

3. Ghost cell
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?

4. 3-6%
What does the FDP test detect?
What color is a 25ga needle?
Fibrinogen measurment makes up what percent of the TP?
These cells look like a bulls eye ______ and are commonly in polychromatophils

5. (PCV x 10)/RBC
MCV
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?
All cells can get...
List 3 venipuncture sites in the dog and the needle size for each

6. Increased concentration: dehydration
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What are the 4 tests used to diagnose a plasma cell tumor?
which hematocrit tubes contain heparin?
What is the mech of relative hyperproteinemia and an example

7. Ad: speedy collection - no exchange of glass into blood; dis: cell trauma d/t vacuum - breakable - glass activates coagulation factors - component separation more difficult
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?
What is the mech of absolute hyperproteinemia and an example
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
What would a Heinz body look like stained in NMB

8. PCV - TP - Plasma evaluation - directly from patient
What is the specific use for GreyTT?
If an animal is anemic __________ will be seen in the peripheral blood
What are some infectious agents that you would test for in a dog before they could be a donor?
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?

9. Coverslips
What are the normal ranges for ACT?
In avian hematology blood films are commonly made with ________
What is the mech of relative hyperproteinemia and an example
What organ produces EPO?

10. VIII and vWB
During the production of coagulation factors the liver can make all factors except part of factor ___ and _____
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 specific use for Black Ring Hematocrit?
Give 4 examples of hemolysis errors in collection of CBC/LTT

11. RTT with gel like substance used to separate cells form serum
Fibrinogen increases during states of inflammation - in a dog and cat WBCs increase or decrease prior to fibrinogen increasing?
What is a serum separator tube?
MCHC
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?

12. Hemotomas - bleeding into muscle joints/body cavities and delayed bleeding after venipunture
Clinical signs of a secondary hemostasis defect are.....
What are 3 reasons we evaluate TP?
What is the difference between a red ring and a black ring hematocrit tube?
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?

13. Shaking - too small needle with too much negative back pressure - rocker tray too long - water in syringe - freezing and thawing - squirting into tube - spinning too fast or too long
What are the 2 categories of errors in collection of CBC/LTT?
Give 4 examples of hemolysis errors in collection of CBC/LTT
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?
What does BMBT evaluate

14. Peripheral Blood - Bone Marrow
Mature RBCs are normally seen in the ______ ______ and immature RBC are in the _______ _____.
What color is a 20ga needle?
When looking at the monolayer on 10x What are you looking for?
List 3 venipuncture sites in the cat and the needle size for each

15. Primary hemostasis and specifically plt number
What does the plt estimate evaluate?
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?

16. Nulcear characteristics and cytoplasmic characteristics
The WBC morphology includes...
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
What does the test thrombin time detect?
The end product of contact activation (or intrinsic pathway) is _______

17. Lymphocyte; they clone themselves before they die
These cells look like an elmer fudd hat resulting from a blister or vacuole on the surface of the cell.
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
What happens during aggregation
What is the only cell that has the ability to recirculate? How do they do this?

18. Not making blood film ASAP - glucocorticoids - inherited
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
What are the causes of hypersegmented neutrophils?
What are 3 examples of acquired primary hemostasis defects (vascular part)
What are MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the dog?

19. 200 -000-500 -000/microliter; 200 -000-500 -000/microliter
An example of and inherited platelet function defect is ________ where platelets fail to adhere to subendothelial collagen
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal RBC count?
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?

20. Lung deficit - asthma - altitude - PDA
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?
What does a RTT contain?
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size

21. Leukocytopenia or leukopenia
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds
What is the normal range for neutrophils and lymphocytes in a horse? monos and eos? basos?
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal WBC count?
What are the 3 nuclear changes in a neutrophil? What is the 1 cytoplasmic change?

22. Ponctate Polka Dot Ribosomes More mature retic -Aggregate Clumped Ribosomes Younger retic
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
List the two types of retics along with there morphological and physiological characteristics
Why would you give fluids IO or IP?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be lipemic?

23. Jugular- 20ga
What do you look for to identify a neutrophil?
What is an example of the fluid component of blood?
Where is the maturation pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
list the venipuncture site in sheep and goats and the needle size

24. Adhesion - Aggregation - Secretion
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...
Where is the storage pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?

25. Hemorrhage
List the stages of RBC production starting with the PPSC
Define polycythemia
What is an example of loss of RBC
What do the granules of a mast cell contain

26. Promoters - inhibitors
What are the 3 types of hematocrit tubes?
Hemostasis is the complex - overlapping series of physiological and biochemical events which involve both _______ and ________ of coagulation
The WBC morphology includes...
What is the defining cell of inflammation?

27. Basophils
What are some examples of acellular components of blood and What are their functions?
What is the normal range of a PCV for a dog? a cat?
what WBC do mast cells resemble
This causes a sever often fatal anemia in cats that are usually FeLv pos.

28. no body
What type of anticoagulant is in a BTT
What are the 3 components of hemostasis
An avian blood film has a feathered edge - monolayer - and...
What are the 2 types of absolute polycythemia?

29. Schistocytes
What are the 3 components of blood?
These are small fragments of a RBC. Can be seen in a patient with DIC - iron deficiency or heartworms.
It take ___ days to see a response to anemia in the peripheral blood
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...

30. PCV - RBC - Hb - Retic Ct - Morphology - Indices MCV - MCHC - MCH
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
List 6 tests to evaluate RBCs
What does ACT evaluate?
What are some symptoms of immediate hypersensitivity?

31. Blue
What is the tx for RBC tumor
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?
What color is a 22ga needle?
What is dysproteinemia?

32. Cytauxzoon sp.
Why are monocyte numbers low in WBC differentials?
What are the blood types of a cat?
Fatal tick transmitted disease to the domestic cat. Bobcat is host.
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better

33. Empty package of negate stain
What is the normal range of a WBC ct for a dog? a cat?
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal WBC count?
vacuoles
What are some examples of nonimmunologic?

34. Proximal humerus - proximal femur - crest and wing of ilium - sternum and dorsal ends of ribs
What is the term you use when there is a higher than normal platelet count?
What species never releases immature RBCs early?
Where are some sites to collect a BM sample?
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?

35. Increase loss: hemorrhage - decrease production: liver failure - decrease consumption: starvation
What is the tx for RBC tumor
What are the 3 mech. that cause absolute hypoproteinemia and give an example of each.
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?
What would be 2 causes of artifact hypoproteinemia?

36. Vacuoles in cytoplasm with foaminess- can see pits on 100x
What is cytoplasmic vacuolization?
When viewing the monolayer on 100x What are you checking?
If an animal is more than 6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
Thrombocytes tend to...

37. segmented nucleus
Where is the storage pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
What is the procedure for doing a retic count?
Avian basophils do not have a...
These RBCs have more surface area than contents. Similar to a half full zip lock bag or look like they have wrinkles.

38. Size - shape - and number
Platelet morphology includes...
What two anticoagulants have no preservatives and have a shelf life of 24 hours?
What granulocyte stage has a kidney bean shaped nucleus?
granule

39. 15-45%; 55-85%; 0-5%; rare
What is the normal range for neutrophils in a cow? lymphocytes? monos and eos? basos?
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
What are the 3 parts of the platelet plug?
What is the defining cell of inflammation?

40. Plastic bag - glass bottle - syringe
What are the 3 collection techniques for blood donation?
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?

41. Acute- DIC - ruptured spleen - chronic- GI ulcers
Define polycythemia
During gestation is TP high or low?
What are neutrophil nuclear immatures commonly referred to?
blood loss can be acute or chronic - What are some causes for acute? chronic?

42. Calculated a corrected WBC ct.
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
If there is 5 or more nRBCs in the on the blood film - what must you do?
What do you look for to identify a lymphocyte?
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?

43. Vasoconstriction and further platelet aggregation (overall goal is to get more platelets to that area)
If you have a dog come in ADR and you need to draw blood with vacutainer - what order should you fill your tubes?
Does a clot error in collection of CBC/LTT invalidate the sample?
What do you look for to identify an eosinophil?
During secretion - TXA is released by platelets and causes what?

44. They are only circulating in the blood for 2 hours (they leave bone marrow when mature - circulate for 2 hours - go to tissue and turn into macrophages)
Why are monocyte numbers low in WBC differentials?
What are the types of BM sample?
What are the 3 mech. that cause absolute hypoproteinemia and give an example of each.
What is the only cell that has the ability to recirculate? How do they do this?

45. Hemoproteus spp
What are some common causes of Normochromic Normocytic Non-Regenerative Anemia?
What layer and what power objective do you use to do the differential?
What avian parasite am I describing.... a horseshoe or halter-shaped organism partially encircling but not displacing the host RBC nucleus
What are some disadvantages of Oxyglobin?

46. The fluid portion of coagulated blood
During secretion - TXA is released by platelets and causes what?
What is the stimulus for RBC production?
This RBC inclusion looks like small round dots that stain bluish - seen in dogs with lead poisoning.
What is serum?

47. 35 days if kept at 1-6 degrees celsius in CPDA; oxygen carrying capacity - anemic normovolemic - anemic hypovolemic in conjunction with crystalloids
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?
What does ACT evaluate?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?
What are some examples of soluble coagulation factors?? Cofactors??

48. 2 gtts donor RBC suspension and 2 gtts donor plasma
Where is the proliferating or dividing pool located in the body? What is it comprised of?
Platelet morphology includes...
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
In the control reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?

49. RTT - LTT - BTT - Dia.
What is the specific use for LTT?
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?
If an animal is anemic __________ will be seen in the peripheral blood

50. EDTA because you wont have stainging variation
Which anticoagulant is best to use when using blood to make a smear?
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?
During gestation is TP high or low?
Stored plasma is the same as fresh frozen plasma except For what?