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| What % of blood cells changed out daily? |
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| What unit of measure is Mean Corpuscular Volume measured in? |
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| What types of reticulocytes are in cats? |
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| What type of reticulocytes are in dogs? |
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| Why are punctate not counted to diagnose problems in cats? |
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| They stay in circulation for 2-3 weeks |
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| How long are dog RBC's in circulation? |
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| How long are RBCs in cat's circulation? |
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| What is oxidized damaged hemoglobin? |
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| What kind anemia causes decreased oxygen carrying capacity? |
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| What's the most common type of immature red blood cells seen in smears? |
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| What causes basophilic stippling in RBCs? |
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| What's the hallmark finding of hemolytic autoimmune anemia? |
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| What speed and duration are PCV spun at? |
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| What can brown serum indicate? |
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| Methmaglobin and tylenol toxicity |
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| What blood tube has heparin in it? |
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| What color is icteric serum? |
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| What hematology analyzer counts cells as tthey pass through an electrical field? |
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| What're the 3 hematology analyzers? |
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| Impedence, Qualitative Buffy Coat (QBC), and Laser Hematology Analyzer |
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| What Laser Hematology Analyzer is used at DMACC? |
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| How often should stains be changed out? |
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| What 3 things are measured by a CBC? |
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| RBC's, WBC's, and platelets |
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| What are the 4 components of a leukogram? |
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| RBC Morphology, WBC differential, platelet estimate, and separating WBC's |
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| What are the 4 erythrocyte morphology catergories? |
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| Size, arrangement, color, shape |
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| What's the most common anticoagulant? |
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| What does EDTA stand for? |
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| Ethylene diamine triacetic acid |
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| What's the 1st step in clinical evaluation |
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| What are the 3 erythrocyte parameters that are measured? |
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| Measures size of RBCs, RBC count, and hemaglobin |
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| What could affect RBC counts by impedence, because it could count it as an RBC? |
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| What's a process where RBCs are evaluated? |
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| How close should answers be to the actual values in a CBC? |
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| What's in the buffy coat? |
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| What are WBC and RBC counts measured in? |
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| cells/microliter of blood |
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| What 5 things are found in the feathered edge? |
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| Clumped platelets, microfilaria, atypical cells, large cells, and inappropriate monos and eos |
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| What does no mono layer = |
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| What's the test for regenerative and nonregenerative anemia? |
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| What's used to test for immune-mediated hemolytic anemia? |
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| What 5 things are on a CBC? |
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| PCV, TP,WBC, Differential: Platelet estimate, types of WBCs. and RBC morphology |
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| What are WBC counts measured in? |
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| What are platelet estimates measured in? |
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| What are small round organisms at the edge of RBC's, which are typically seen secondary to chronic infections such as feline leukemia? |
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| Hemobartonella/mycoplasma |
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| What tick-transmitted parasite is tear-shaped? |
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| What do basophilic stippling, foaminess, or dohle bodies indicate? |
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| What's the order of RBC maturation? |
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| Rubriblast, prorubricyte, rubricyte, metarubricyte, reticulocyte, and erythrocyte |
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| What 4 places do hematopoeisis take place in prenatal animals? |
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| Liver, spleen, thymus, and red bone marrow |
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| Where are RBCs formed in adult animals? |
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| Red bone marrow and liver & spleen in times of stress |
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| T/F All components of hematopoeisis begin from the same stem cell? |
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| What help differentiate stem cells? |
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| What does each hemaglobin molecule contain? |
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| 4 molecules of heme, 1 atom of iron, and 1 molecule of globulin |
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| What WBC's primary function is defense against bacterial disease? |
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| What are the 4 pools where neutrophils are found? |
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| Proliferation, maturation/storage, circulating, and marginal |
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| Where are marginal neutrophils found? |
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| the vessels until needed in tissues |
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| What 5 things are eos involved in? |
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| Parasitic infections, fungal diseases, protozoal diseases, allergies, and immune complex disease |
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| T/F There are very few monocytes in normal animals. |
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| Whats primary function is to migrate to tissues to become macrophages? |
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| What help with tissue repair, regulation of immune response, and iron recycling in the spleen? |
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| When do monocyte numbers increase in the dog? |
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| Chronic inflammation and stress of dog |
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| What's the 2nd most common WBC? |
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| What's the most common ruminant WBC? |
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| What lymphocytes are responsible for for antibodies? |
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| What lymphocytes are responsible for regulation of immune response aka cell-mediated immunity? |
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| What're 3 characteristics of reactive lymphs? |
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| Larger, basophilic cytoplasm, and prominent nucleolus in nuclei |
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| What circulates in and out of lymph organs to look for foreign antigens or infectious agents? |
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| What're 2 characteristics of toxic WBC as a result of blood infections? |
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| Larger and less dense cells and more "monocytes" than usual |
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| What are spherocytes aka? |
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| What are crenated RBCs aka? |
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| Burr or crenated cells: What are more elongated? |
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| What's an RBC called with no central pallor? |
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| What is often seen in lead toxicity? |
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| When are #s used in blood smears? |
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| What's cool about Rouleaux arrangement? |
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| Roleaux completley covers slide |
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| What's a sure sign of autoimmune hemolytic anemia? |
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| Break tube just above buffy coat, blow plasma onto refractometer, check for glass fragments, close cover & read, read where blue meets white |
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| What uses a hemacytometer to see the results? |
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| What's the Leuko-tic procedure? |
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| Mix sample (purple top tube), with holder, insert capillary tube into blood and fill completley, wipe excess blood from tube, plaace end of capillary tube into vial and shake well until all blood is out of tube, shake vial, and fill large tube 1/2 full, fill hemocytometer, count squares and multiply by 50, and make sure both sides are within 90% of each other |
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| What power do you read blood smears on? |
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| What do MCV, MCHC, MCH, and RDW demonstrate? |
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| What's the main cause of an increased MCV? |
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| What causes a decreased MCV? |
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| What shunts result in microcytosis? |
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| Portosystemic venous shunts |
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| What breed is famous for having microcytosis? |
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| What breed do macrocytoses occur in? |
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| What type of cats frequently have macrocytosis? |
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| Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration |
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| Increases MCHC is almost always the result of what? |
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| In vivo or in vitro hemolysis |
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| T/F The MCHC may be decreased in reticulocytosis. |
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| T/F Increased amts of hemaglobin can be put into cells. |
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| Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin |
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| What's the unit of measure of MCH? |
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| What are ALL the components of a CBC? |
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| PCV, T.P., WBC, Differential: Types of WBC, platelet estimate, RBC morphology: size, shape, color, arrangement |
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| What's the unit of measure for T.P.? |
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| What do you use to do a differential WBC count? |
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| Hemacytometer and Leuko-tic system |
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| What's the unit of measire for WBC counts? |
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| leukocytes/cu mm or leukocytes/u |
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| What does a normal MCHC indicate? |
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| What does a decreased MCHC indicate? |
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| What do MCV, MCH, MCHC indicate? |
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| Size and hemaglobin content of RBCs |
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| What's decreased RBC anemia that is common? |
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| What is expanded plasma volume anemia, that is rare, and can occur in excessive fluid therapy and pregnancy? |
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| Polychromasia, basophilic stippling, inc. reticulocytes, and aggregate reticulocytes in cats represent what type of anemia? |
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| What type of cells are seen in immune-mediated anemia? |
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| What's the order of erythropoeisis? |
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| Rubriblast, prorubricyte, rubricyte, metarubricyte, reticulocyte, RBC |
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| What's the unit of measure of MCV? |
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| Why is the MCHC lower with reticulocytosis? |
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| Reticulocytes aren't the same red color as erythrocytes, and they can't carry as much hemaglobin |
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| What is the preferred method of blood collection? |
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| If a patient is dehydrated what will happen to its PCV and TP? |
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| Increase PCV, increase TP |
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| What are 2 causes of Heinz bodies in a cat? |
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| Onion toxicity or tylenol |
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| What does polycythemia mean? |
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| A ____ MCV and ____ MCHC are excellent indicators of regenerative anemia. |
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| T/F Plasma color and transparency should be recorded when evaluating a hemacrit tube. |
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| How are absolute values calculated when performing a differential on a CBC? |
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| Wgat is the term for a counting chamber of cells / microliter? |
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| Increase in band neutrophils |
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| What's the average size of a canine RBC? |
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| What cells does the buffy coat contain? |
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| What's the best anticoagulant? |
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| Autoimmune mediated hemolytic anemia & thrombocytopenia |
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| What're all the types of cells that can be counted on a hemacytometer? |
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| WBCS, RBCs, and platelets |
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| What's the most common cause of seeing a reactive lymph? |
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| What's the most common NRBC seen on a differential? |
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| What's a normal cat WBC count? |
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| What's a PCV reference range of a cat? |
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