Leukemias
Abnormal blood cells are blasts and multiply rapidly.
CHRONIC OR ACUTE
What is Acute Leukemia?
Positive malaria smear
What is Critical?
The meaning of "intra" as in intracellular
What is within?
Intracellular means within the cell.
Disease associated with pale blue inclusions in granulocytes and giant platelets.
What is May-Hegglin anomaly
Reported result when CK diluted x10 and result of diluted specimen is 350 U/L.
What is 3,500 U/L
This type of leukemia involves more mature blood cells. Some forms can go unnoticed or undiagnosed for a long period of time (years).
CHRONIC OR ACUTE
Phosphorus 5.0 mg/dL
What is Not Critical?
Critical Phosphorus: <=1.0 or >=9.0 mg/dL
The meaning of "poikilo" as in poikilocytosis
What is irregular or varied?
Poikilocytosis is variation in the shapes of red cells.
What is 510/uL
Mean = 100
SD = 1.8
95% confidence interval equals ______
What is 96.4 - 103.6
This type of leukemia affects the lymphoid cells (lymphocytes) which form lymphoid or lymphatic tissue.
What is Lymphocytic leukemia?
Lactic Acid 4.2 mmol/L
What is Critical?
Critical Lactic Acid: >=4.0 mmol/L
The meaning of "itis" as in appendicitis
What is inflammation?
Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix.
The corrected WBC on a patient with total WBC = 20.0 x 103/uL and 50 NRBC's seen in the 100 cell diff.
What is 13,333/uL
What is 1 part serum to 3 parts water.
This type of leukemia affects the myeloid cells. Myeloid cells produce red blood cells, white blood cells and platelet-producing cells
What is Myelogenous leukemia?
Ethanol 350 mg/dL
What is Not Critical?
Critical Ethanol: >=400 mg/dL
The meaning of "sclerosis" as in Atherosclerosis
What is hardening?
Atherosclerosis is the hardening of your arteries from plaque gradually building up inside them.
Characteristic finding in synovial fluid of a patient with gout
What is monosodium urate crystals
Statistical term for the average value
What is mean.
The 4 major types of leukemia
What are Acute Lymphocytic, Acute Myelogenous, Chronic Lymphocytic, and Chronic Myelogenous?
Transfusion Reaction
What is Critical?
All transfusion reactions are considered critical lab values.
The meaning of "lysis" as in hemolysis
What is breakdown or destruction?
Hemolysis is the breakdown of red blood cells.
What are basophils
Formula for Standard Deviation
What is square root of (sum of squared differences)/(N-1)