Circulatory System
To distribute nutrients and remove waste
What is the function of the circulatory system?
The side of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood from the body.
What is the Right Side?
A vein that is acceptable to use on most patients, regardless of species.
What is the jugular vein?
A blood test that measures a patient's minerals, eletrolytes, and organ values?
What is a Chemistry + Electrolytes?
The part of the circulatory system that causes blood circulation
What is the heart?
The chamber of the heart where blood resides before it is moved into the aorta.
What is the left ventricle?
This vein is located in the front leg
What is the cephalic vein?
A blood test that allows the veterinarian to see a patient's RBCs and WBCs.
What is a blood smear?
The fluid portion of the blood responsible for the transport of blood contents.
What is plasma?
The valve that regulates the flow of blood from the right atrium to the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
The only pratical restrain position for a femoral vein blood draw
What is lateral recumbancy?
A blood test that requires very little blood and can help veterinary staff evaluate a patients % RBCs.
What is a PCV?
Arteries, Capillaries, and Veins
What are blood vessels?
The only artery that carries deoxygenated blood
What is the pulmonary artery?
The vein that is reserved for IV catheters in dog and cat patients.
What is the cephalic vein?
A singular blood test that will enable a veterinarian to diagnose erlichiosis, a tickborne disease.
What is a SNAP Test?
The medical term for RBC.
What is Erythrocyte.
The blood vessel that brings oxygenated blood back to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
An accumulation of blood under the skin that results from inadequate post-venipuncture pressure or severe damage to the blood vessel.
What is a hematoma?
A singular blood test that can enable a veterinarian to diagnose a patient with anemia and an infection
What is a CBC?