Lab Safety
An item used to enhance safety in the laboratory (such as gloves, masks, gowns, etc).
What is personal protective equipment (PPE).
The piece of equipment we use to measure total protein in the lab.
What is a refractometer.
The pH of blood is normally _______. (neutral, acidic or basic).
What is neutral (7.4)
The majority of anticoagulants bind to this element to prevent clotting (except for heparin).
The name of the area where the majority of the assessment and evaluation performed on the blood smear?
What is the monolayer.
The term for a disease that can be passed between humans and animals.
What is zoonotic.
The piece of equipment that we use to speed up the separation of different substances by density, that must be balanced before running.
What is the centrifuge.
The three layers that are observed when you spin your microhematocrit tube for the PCV/TP.
What are red cells, the buffy coat, and the serum/plasma.
The tube type used for mammal hematology samples.
What is EDTA (Purple or Lavender Top)
This is important for us to check on the blood smear if the platelet count appears to be low?
What are platelet clumps.
The type of biosafety level that the majority of veterinary clinics would be considered.
What is biosafety level I.
The two values required to calculate the total magnification of your specimen.
What are the ocular lens (10x) and the objective lens (4X, 10X, 40X or 100X).
The amount of time you need to allow a sample to clot prior to centrifugation to allow for full clot retraction.
What is 15-20 minutes.
This tube type is always drawn first, regardless of whether you're using a vacutainer system or the needle and syringe system.
What is Sodium Citrate (Blue top tube).
The name of the test that we perform as a part of the CBC to check the percentage of the blood made up of RBCs.
What is the PCV.
Three ways in which diseases can be transmitted.
What is: aerosolized, mucous membrane exposure, oral ingestion, fomites, vector borne, open wound exposure.
The bending of light as it passes from one media to another of a different density.
What is refraction.
The presence or absence of fibrinogen is the primary difference between:
What is serum and plasma.
The type of tubes usually used to check chemistry levels (3 options).
What are heparin (green top), no-additive or clot activator (red top) and clot activator with serum separator (yellow/gold top).
The type of liquid that we use to calibrate the refractometer, and what number the specific gravity should be.
What is distilled water and 1.000
The type of safety equipment that has a HEPA filter. (Likely not seen unless you're in specialty practice/lab).
What is a biosafety cabinet.
The objective lens that requires the use of immersion oil.
What is 100X.
The terminology for the 3 most common changes to our serum/plasma colour.
What are hemolyzed, icteric and lipemic.
The type of tube that has a separator gel, and the type of supernatant obtained from this tube.
What is the SST (Yellow top tube), which yields serum.
The 5 things you need on a properly labeled slide.
What are the pet name, owner last name, species, date and your initials.