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Veterinary Hematology Technology

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1. .98mls to .02mls
What are some causes of thromboembolic disorder?
What test could be done to differentiate between rouleaux and agglutination?
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
____________ is often seen in ruminants with cobalt deficiencies and poodles with defective erythrogenesis

2. Maintains osmotic pressure
What is the function of albumin?
What do you look for to identify a monocyte?
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?
What color is a 18ga needle?

3. Jugular- 18ga
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
What are the 2 cytoplasmic changes in the monocyte? They individually or together are pathognomonic signs of what?
In the minor reaction of the crossmatch - What do you add together?
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH

4. Primary hemostasis and plt number
When would you use Cryopercipitate on your patient?
What does plt count evaluate?
Describe a plasma cell. What animals are they seen in?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?

5. SQ
What does the plt estimate evaluate?
During secondary hemostasis What is formed to stabilize the primary hemostatic plug?
If an animal is 5-6% dehydrated At what route should you give fluids?
What would a Heinz body look like stained in NMB

6. Acanthocytes
What are some causes of BM failure
What is the Observed Retic Count Formula? Corrected Retic Count? Absolute Retic Count?
These cells have irregular spicules that are uneven in size and distribution. Seen in dogs with liver disease.
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds

7. BLV - bovine leukemia virus
What is the shelf life of Oxyglobin?
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)
Endothelium and platelets produce What two factors?
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?

8. Petechia - ecchymosis - bleeding from mm - bleeding out after venipuncture
What do you look for to identify a neutrophil?
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....
How long and At what rpm do you spin the hematocrit tube?

9. VIII and vWB
What are the 3 nuclear changes in a neutrophil? What is the 1 cytoplasmic change?
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
chromatin

10. 200 -000-500 -000/microliter; 200 -000-500 -000/microliter
What color is a 25ga needle?
What are the requirements for a canine blood donor?
What is the ratio of PSS to Packed RBCs in the RBC suspension?
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?

11. Hemophila A and VWD- maintenance
During fibrinolysis unbound plasmin in inactivated and bound plasmin hydrolyzes fibrin producing ______
How long is packed RBCs good for? When would you use it on your patient?
list the venipuncture site in sheep and goats and the needle size
When would you use Cryopercipitate on your patient?

12. RTT with gel like substance used to separate cells form serum
What are the Vitamin K depended factors
Clinical signs of primary hemostasis defects are.....
What is a serum separator tube?
What is the method for ACT?

13. Partial thromboplastin time - prothrombin time - VWF test - thrombin time - FDPs
What does BMBT evaluate
What is another name for a blister cell?
What is the specific use for Red Ring Hematocrit?
What some send out tests that could be run for bleeding disorders?

14. Empty package of negate stain
What is the advantage of a plastic bag technique? disadvantages?
Prothrombinase starts the _______ pathway Which is when the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways converge
vacuoles
Name the 3 granulocytes

15. Cat
Which species has uniform small rod eosinophil granules?
What are 2 types of RBC tumors?
list the venipuncture site in sheep and goats and the needle size
What is your end patient observation if the blood is not compatible?

16. Horse
Where in the body do we see lymphosarcomas in cattle? What type of cattle so we see it in?
What do you need to give to a cat or dog donor after you complete your blood collection?
Where does protein originate from?
Which species has uniform large round refractile eosinophil granules?

17. Fibrin clot
What does ACT evaluate?
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
Name the 3 granulocytes
The final product of secondary hemostasis is a stable ____ _______ which seals larger blood vessel defects

18. ITP -DIC -Marrow problem (or kidney failure)
Thrombocytopenia (Mech and Ex)-Increased destruction = ____ -Increased consumption = ______ -Decreased production = ________
What is the stimulus for lymphocyte production?
0.9% NaCl only in the same line as...
Does the toxic neutrophil have to have all the presentation to be toxic? What would you report out for each presentation?

19. Cow; dusty purple grey
What does hemosiderin look like?
What would cause an artifact hyperproteinemia
What is the function of albumin?
What is the only species that has color stained in the neutrophil granules? what color do they stain?

20. Room temperature
What is the difference between a red ring and a black ring hematocrit tube?
How many times do you repeat the RBC wash?
What are 3 examples of acquired secondary hemostasis defects
What is the minimum temperature that you should warm the blood before administering it?

21. The fluid portion of coagulated blood
What are the normal blood volumes for the dog and cat?
What is serum?
What is the method for BMBT?
What type of count can we do to determine bone marrows response to anemia

22. PPSC - Rubriblast - Prorubricyte - Rubricyte - Metarubricyte - Polychromatophilic - Mature RBC
What is the only cell that has the ability to recirculate? How do they do this?
granule
List the stages of RBC production starting with the PPSC
What are the 2 causes of secondary absolute polycythemia?

23. Dif Quick - DipStat - Wright's stain
Name the 3 granulocytes
Define relative
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
What is the most dominant WBC in most birds

24. Normocytic
What are the three pathways (limbs) of secondary hemostasis?
Fritz the cat - has an MCV of 45 - What term will I use for evaluation?
Cats and Birds only count _________ retics in the retic tally
What is the mech of relative hyperproteinemia and an example

25. Non- Regenerative -Regenerative
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal platelet count?
Regarding the Absolute Retic Count.....< 60 -000 = ___________ > 60 -000 = ___________
What is a vascular spasm? (stimulated by ______ - causes constriction of ________)

26. BTT
What tube is used for all the sent our tests except FDPs?
What are two stains used in staining blood films?
The goal of hemostasis is to basically maintain blood within vessels - but ...
What do you look for to identify a basophil

27. Macrophages
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
With the MPS - ___________ in the liver - spleen and bone marrow break down hemoglobin
What does ACT evaluate?
What avian WBC am I describing.....typically rod-shaped - eosinophilic granule which partially or completely obscure the nucleus

28. Cow
Which species has uniform small round refractile eosinophil granules?
How many mls is one unit of blood for a dog?a cat?
What is a mott cell? What animals are they seen in?
What color is a 22ga needle?

29. Anaplasma marginale
List at least 5 differences between avian and mammalian hematology
What infectious agent is seen in cattle with a tick infestation that causes severe anemia and icterus?
What test would be run using blood from a RTT?
Explain the Diff Quick staining technique for avian hematology

30. Concentration of proteins reflects a balance b/w filtration into tissues then a return of proteing in the lymphatic system
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
What is the function of immunglobins?
Why is it important that you use the appropriate thumb forceps when using wright's stain?

31. Ghost cell
This cell looks like an empty RBC membrane and is usually an indication of IVH
What are the two types of techniques we could use when drawing blood?
If I see unusually large RBCs what will I use? Unusually small RBCs?
The final product of secondary hemostasis is a stable ____ _______ which seals larger blood vessel defects

32. Test for fibrinolysis specifically the amount of FDP
What is fibrinolysis?
What does the FDP test detect?
What some send out tests that could be run for bleeding disorders?
What erythoroocyte antigens must a dog be lacking to be a universal donor?

33. Ponctate Polka Dot Ribosomes More mature retic -Aggregate Clumped Ribosomes Younger retic
Briefly describe what happens during adhesion
How long is fresh frozen plasma good for? When would you use it on your patient?
List the two types of retics along with there morphological and physiological characteristics
What virus in cattle can cause lymphosarcoma?

34. Water - its function is thermoregulation - lubrication - transporter and chemical reactions
What is an example of the fluid component of blood?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be hemolytic?
What are the MCV and MCHC normal ranges for the cat?
What is the specific use for Blue Ring Hematocrit?

35. Hemonate for microdrips and admin set with filter for macrodrips
This infectious agent can be seen in WBC and RBC. Tick transmitted. Inclusion looks similar to a plt.
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?
What are 3 examples of acquired secondary hemostasis defects
What is your end patient observation if the blood is not compatible?

36. They increase
What do lymphocytes do after vaccination or in young neonates?
What pool is located in the peripheral blood? What is it comprised of? How long do they circulate?
What is a reactive lymph look like? What animals are they seen in?
What is pyknosis? What do they look like?

37. Prostaglandins in cell wall - bacterial products - infectious and non-infectious inflammatory processes
What does the test thrombin time detect?
What is the normal range of a PLT ct for a dog? a cat?
What is the stimulus for monocyte production?
Barney the dog has a MCHC of 19 - What term will I use for evaluation?

38. Round to oval; ameboid
What are the 2 categories of errors in collection of CBC/LTT?
List the venipuncture site in the horse and the needle size
What shape is the nucleus in a lymphocyte? a monocyte?
What are the indications for BM sampling

39. defective maturation series
T/F myelodysplasia and erythodysplasia have...
Judge the cells by the company that they keep is a...
What does MCV stand for and what will it tell us?
This RBC inclusion looks like a clear nipple like protrusion on the outer edge.

40. Immature - cleft or bleb; reactive - granular cytoplasm - plasma cell - mott cell
What are the 2 nuclear changes in a lymphocyte? What is the 4 cytoplasmic changes?
What is one factor that could cause the plasma evaluation to be icteric?
list the venipuncture site in sheep and goats and the needle size
What are the 2 main proteins?

41. Liver is #1 lymphoid tissue is #2
You must filter blood products by one of What two ways?
Where does protein originate from?
Fritz the cat has a MCHC of 40 - What term will I use for evaluation?
List two ways the body gets rid of old RBCs

42. w/o anemia
What are the in house tests that could be run to check for bleeding disorders?
What is the stimulus for platelets
EPO is involved with hypoxia...
What are the 3 types of cytological patterns?

43. Use simplate device to make an incision into upper lip - start timer - using filter paper dab site (dont wipe) every 10 seconds until bleeding stops. Normal range: 1-3min in dogs and cats
What is the method for BMBT?
What is the best technique used to deliver donated blood into recipient? What if they were puppies/kittens
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
What does the test thrombin time detect?

44. 7-10 days
What does hemosiderin look like?
What is the method for BMBT?
What shape is the nucleus in a lymphocyte? a monocyte?
How many days does it take for the body to recognize that it is not its own blood?

45. Ad: speedy collection - no exchange of glass into blood; dis: cell trauma d/t vacuum - breakable - glass activates coagulation factors - component separation more difficult
Fibrinolysis is...
List the order of Platelet production
What is the advantage of a glass bottle technique? disadvantages?
What is the term you use when there is a lower than normal WBC count?

46. Lrg clusters of plasma cells in BM aspirate -lytic bone lesion -monoclonal gammopathy -bence jones proteinuria
What is hypersegmented neutrophils commonly referred to? What must they have to be considered this?
What color is a 22ga needle?
What is the most important trait of blood donation?
What are the 4 tests used to diagnose a plasma cell tumor?

47. Polychormatophilics
What are the 3 types of cytological patterns?
Why are monocyte numbers low in WBC differentials?
What are the 3 layers of a blood film?
If an animal is anemic __________ will be seen in the peripheral blood

48. Echinocytes
As a general rule - ____ is slightly better
What some send out tests that could be run for bleeding disorders?
These are cells that are spiculated with even small projections over the entire cell.
If you have a dog come in ADR and you need to draw blood with vacutainer - what order should you fill your tubes?

49. Not cleaning refractometer - drying of sample - inclusion of buffy coat
What would cause an artifact hyperproteinemia
What happens during aggregation
What anticoagulant is in a LTT or PTT?
Prothrombinase starts the _______ pathway Which is when the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways converge

50. Distilled water on refractometer or an uncalbrated refractometer
What are the types of BM sample?
What would be 2 causes of artifact hypoproteinemia?
What is the method for BMBT?
What are some things that could cause a hypoxia w/o anemia?