Lab Safety & Microscopes
The perfect way to store a microscope. (name as many as you can)
Cleaned stage & lens, Stage lowered away from lenses, Slides removed, Cord wrapped neatly, Covered in dust cover
Packed cell volume measures this
What is percentage of cells (including RBCs) in the peripheral blood sample?
Red blood cells are also called this
What are erythrocytes?
The area on a blood smear where we evaluate cells
What is the monolayer?
Because of potential zoonotic diseases we wear this equipment when handling patient samples
What are gloves?
TS can be measured using this
What is the refractometer?
This calculated value gives us insight into the size of RBCs
What is MCV?
A mHCT tube should be at least this full before spinning in the centrifuge.
What is 3/4 full/75%?
This is the only appropriate place to discard glass slides after use
What is the Sharps container?
These 5 lab tools/instruments necessary for a PCV/TS are:
What are mHCT tubes, clay, centrifuge & PCV reader card, refractometer?
This molecule is responsible for the oxygen carrying capacity of RBCs
What is hemoglobin?
What is the 100% line?
Immersion oil can only be used with this objective lens
What is 100X?
Increased PCV could be due to this
What is dehydration?
This RBC abnormality is due to oxidative damage; it looks like a small blue bleb/bubble on the RBC when stained with NMB.
What is a Heinz body?
This stain is an orangey-pink color
What is eosin?
The most important step to using a centrifuge
What is balancing it/the samples?
A PCV of 12% tells us this about the patient
This nuclear remnant RBC inclusion usually stains purple/blue and looks like a small dot.
What is a Howell-Jolly body?
The Diff-Quik system is an example of this kind of stain
What is Romanowsky?