Red Blood Cells
This is the blood tube of choice if collecting blood to perform a complete blood count.
What is a purple top tube (EDTA)?
These are the 3 granulocytes.
What are neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils?
These are two indications to perform a vaginal cytology.
What are Vulvar and vaginal discharge, Vulvar swelling or odor, Infertility, Attraction of males by anestrous or spayed females Estrous determination, or Dysuria?
Normal voided urine is clear except in this species.
Hint: a. Dogs b. Cats c. Horses d. Cows
What is Horses? (and rabbits)
This is a glycoprotein mold of the renal tubules.
What is a cast?
This value measure the average volume (size) of an individual red blood cell.
What is the Mean Corpuscular Volume or MCV?
This is the definition of Left Shift.
What is Increased number of immature neutrophils in circulating blood?
These supplies are needed to perform a vaginal cytology.
What are Examination Gloves, Vaginal speculum, light source, Sterile cotton tipped applicator, Lubrication Jelly, Clean slides, Wrights Stain, Microscope?
This is how you report cells (RBC, WBC, Casts) on a urinalysis.
What is average number per HPF?
This is the largest of the epithelial cells found in urine.
What is Squamous epithelial cells?
This is the other name for a metarubricyte.
What is a nucleated red blood cell (nRBC)?
These are the 2 basic functions of white blood cells.
What are phagocytosis and antibody production?
These are five cells that are commonly seen on a vaginal cytology.
What are 1. Parabasal Cells; 2. Intermediate Cells; 3. Superficial Cells; 4. White Blood Cells; 5. Red Blood Cells?
This is the best method of urine collection to assess the patency of the urethra.
Hint: a. Catheterization b. Manual expression c. Free catch d. Cystocentesis
What is catheterization?
This is considered normal numbers of erythrocytes in a urine sediment. Normal finding should not exceed this number.
What is 2-4 RBC/HPF?
This is produced when the fundamental stimulus tissue hypoxia occurs. It will stimulate red blood cell production by the bone marrow to restore oxygen levels.
What is Erythropoietin (EPO)?
These are the two categories for leukopenia OR anemia.
What are increased destruction/consumption and decreased production?
These are the four stages of the canine estrous cycle and their duration.
What are Proestrus (9-10 Days); Estrus (9-10 Days); Diestrus (57-58 Days); and Anestrus (2-5 Months)?
This method of urine sample collection may not be associated with traumatic hematuria.
Hint: a. Catheterization b. Manual expression c. Free catch d. Cystocentesis
What is Free Catch?
Urine showing >1.050 on a refractometer reading alerts you that the patient is probably this.
What is dehydrated?
These are the seven components of a manual or automatic Complete Blood Count.
What are 1. Red Blood Cell Count (RBC); 2. White Blood Cell (WBC); 3. Packed Cell Volume (PCV); 4. Total Plasma Protein (TP); 5. Hemoglobin (Hb); 6. Red Blood Cell Indices (MCV, MCH, MCHC); 7. Blood film evaluation (differential, cell morphology, platelet estimate); Bonus: Reticulocyte Count?
This is the maturation sequence for white blood cells.
What is Myeloblast, Promyelocyte, Myelocyte, Metamyelocyte, Bands, and Segmented?
“My Pappy Made Me Band Steers”
These are fours ways to determine pregnancy in a canine.
What are 1.Palpation 2. Ultrasound 3. Radiology and 4. Assay Test?
This is the least reliable method of determining specific gravity values.
Hint: a. Urinometer, refractometer, reagent test strip b. Refractometer, reagent test strip, urinometer c. Reagent test strip, urinometer, refractometer d. Refractometer, urinometer, reagent test strip
What is reagent test strips?
This is the correct medical term for a urinary bladder stone.
What is an Urolith?